My poem “Flight Arrival” was published in the Winter 2016 Olentangy Review, Amanda Lovelace wins the Goodreads Choice 2016 Poetry Award, and Bob Dylan sends a speech to be read at the Nobel Prize acceptance ceremony.
Then Come Back, The Lost Neruda Poems —Translation by Forrest Gander I love reading translations into English–the imagery and metaphors of another mindset, worldview, often come across so fresh and startling when they come from another language. But translations bring…
First Course in Turbulence, Dean Young’s fourth book of poems, displays a virtuosity of image simultaneously with an economy of words. He suggests meanings, sets tone, foreshadows later parts of poems, and sometimes does so all at once. In “The…
I’ve been reading John Muir’s account of his 1879 trip to Alaska, which he wrote based on his journals and notes from that trip and then published in 1915. As the small ship on which he sailed was passing among…
Not fiction, and not non-fiction, poetry occupies the space squarely between. Truth revealed through carefully orchestrated snippets of facts and fiction combined. Fiction revealing the self through the lens of the Other. Even the most autobiographical of poets create detail…
