This article originally appeared in issue 12.4 (July, 2012).
Josh Brown
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This article originally appeared in issue 12.4 (July, 2012).
G.C. Waldrep
The poems of “Kingdom” are spirit-drawings, in the tradition of the Harmonists’ erstwhile Shaker acquaintances. On occasion they quote bits of Harmonist texts.
Shikha Malaviya
This was how I stumbled upon the extraordinary life of Anandi Gopal Joshee, known more informally as Anandibai (bai, a term of respect for Marathi women), the first Indian woman to have come to the United States to pursue a medical degree in 1883.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
And then, I got hooked on Phillis Wheatley—even though I still wasn’t sure whether I liked her poetry or not.
Billy J. Stratton, Ed.
Evocations of Survivance: Native Storiers in Word and Image in Remembrance of Sand Creek
Megan Snyder-Camp
The importance of clarity—of, as a white writer, being crystal clear about what I was saying, particularly in regard to indigenous languages and history—led me toward prose.
Scott Kelley
What started out as just wanting to make a few paintings of whales ultimately became an eight-year project, with still no end in sight.
Sinéad Morrissey
Sinéad Morrissey pays homage to revolution and to pattern-breaking, considered through a jigsaw puzzle mapping North America.
Megan Pugh
Gunning Birds She kept the Yankees from burning her homeby refusing to leave the bed, and when […]
Alexandra Teague
Ammunition, Or Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, and My Grandmother, Newly Widowed, Speak The men were paid extra: […]
Kelle Groom
Read Statement on Poetic Research for Two Pieces Cape Cod 1837 [found document: obituary] Jan 19, […]
Lindsay Tuggle
Written to mark the bicentennial of Whitman’s birth, my poems operate within that lacuna, occupying the dissonant threshold between Whitman’s optimistic vision for America, “out of hopeful green stuff woven,” and my own personal history.
Robert Strong
all source material is from the 17th century and appears in single quotes
Sean Hill
But when it came to poetry, like many young poets, my first poems focused on myself. It was this exploration of my personal identity that ultimately led me to an exploration of the past. I’d brought several poems about my relationship with my father to a creative writing workshop, and a female classmate challenged me to write about the women in my family.
Cole Swensen
Research has been at the core of my poetic work for the past 15 years—largely because it gives me the chance to pursue questions of language while I pursue a subject in the world at large that interests me.
Richard Greenfield
I conceived of the series of poems as a lyric travelogue, in which, mile by mile, the speaker positions himself on a raft floating on the Duck River, or on its banks, or beneath its surface, or no more than a quarter of a mile from the river.
G.C. Waldrep
Shikha Malaviya
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Billy J. Stratton, Ed.
Megan Snyder-Camp
Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone
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