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The Empty Hand of the Wind
Posted on February 15, 2019 | No Commentsby Robert Stubblefield Even as a student editor of a college literary magazine, perhaps particularly as a student editor of a college literary magazine, you are aware of those rare […] -
A Forest of Names (December) by Ian Boyden
Posted on December 1, 2018 | No Comments[Throughout 2018, we have committed to publishing a selection of poems from each month of Ian Boyden’s manuscript “A Forest of Names.” Over the course of a year, Boyden translated […] -
A Forest of Names (November) by Ian Boyden
Posted on November 1, 2018 | No Comments[Throughout 2018, we have committed to publishing a selection of poems from each month of Ian Boyden’s manuscript “A Forest of Names.” Over the course of a year, Boyden translated […] -
Review of Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems by Ted Kooser
Posted on October 25, 2018 | No CommentsCopper Canyon Press, 2018 by James Crews Reading Ted Kooser’s work, I often think of what Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggeman wrote in his book, Sabbath as Resistance: “Worship […] -
A Forest of Names (October) by Ian Boyden
Posted on October 1, 2018 | No Comments[Throughout 2018, we have committed to publishing a selection of poems from each month of Ian Boyden’s manuscript “A Forest of Names.” Over the course of a year, Boyden translated […] -
Two Poems by Heather Cahoon
Posted on September 19, 2018 | No CommentsHeather Cahoon received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana where she was the Richard Hugo Memorial Scholar. She won the 2005 Merriam Frontier Award for publication of her […] -
Unexpected Effects: Learning from Clay Artist Paul Soldner
Posted on September 7, 2018 | No CommentsBy Heather Swan In a corner of a darkened courtyard, I knelt next to a brick wall which separated me from an inferno on the other side. Bright orange flame […] -
A Forest of Names (June) by Ian Boyden
Posted on June 18, 2018 | No Comments[Throughout 2018, we have committed to publishing a selection of poems from each month of Ian Boyden’s manuscript “A Forest of Names.” Over the course of a year, Boyden translated […] -
Fragile as an Urn: An Interview with Ian Boyden
Posted on May 6, 2018 | No CommentsBy David Axelrod [The interest readers expressed in A Forest of Names, after a selection of the manuscript appeared in the print edition of basalt: a journal of fine […] -
A Review of The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement by Diane Lockward
Posted on October 18, 2017 | No CommentsWind Books, 2016 by Tami Haaland In her well-known poem, “Come into Animal Presence,” Denise Levertov invites readers to feel the “joy” and privilege of “animal presence.” I wonder if […]