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Further Reading
We Shall Undergo
by Diana Garza Islas
translated from the Spanish by Cal Paule
the foam
but say foam
and that poem I decreed
you’ll bite
caramel sphinxes in the sponginess
(for them)
This exquisite poem attempts the tender job of building an island in the foam and then breaking it down to sea level giving us quite the heady experience.
MARK HALLIDAY’S RESPONSE TO “SOME DARKER BOUQUETS”
The experience of reading a thoughtful and responsible critic who severely questions the value of certain poems is crucial for anyone seeking a deeper relation to poetry. This is true whether the poems are by Milton or Wordsworth or our contemporaries. If you float along year after year reading poetry without encountering any severely demanding […]
How Justine by Forsyth Harmon Taught Me How to Feel
by Aya Kusch
A few days ago, I was talking with a friend, and I told her that teenage girls must have superpowers that temporarily bestow them with emotional endurance beyond what anyone else in any other demographic could hope for or imagine, and it’s amazing that anyone survives girlhood without needing tons of therapy afterwards. Her […]
