Further Reading
Poetry as Conversation with Alina Pleskova and Caroline Shurtleff
Alina Pleskova released her first full-length book of poems, Toska, in June of this year with Deep Vellum Press. I read the collection with excitement in just one afternoon. Then, we wrote back and forth together in the interview below in which we discussed the nature of Pleskova’s writing process as a collective, the concept […]
On Laudanum
by Anna Leahy
Tincture of opium: a suffusing saturating permeating flood. Over the counter from the grocer, the barber, the baker. A painkiller, a cordial for irritable babies and bedwetting toddlers, to alleviate cough, gout, menopause, rheumatism, ulcers, cramps, bruises. Nothing anyone suffered could not be cured. Hard to know whether sadness is cause or effect, whether jealousy […]
Unbelong
by Mandira Pattnaik
Did you see a hapless, hunted woman, baby in arms? Her stare’s hollow. // Ahead of her, there’s a slithering line beaded with nowhere people.
