Issue #128 April 2022

Jill in Newburgh, photograph ©Lynn Saville, courtesy of the Yancey Richardson Gallery

  • The Wars Between the Wars Between the Borders that Were Not There

    You had to know how bad the Nazis were
  • Adam Vines’ “Lures” reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar

    If you read all of Adam Vines’s new collection, "Lures", and at the end of the book close your eyes and try to picture in your mind’s eye the book’s signature image
    Book Review
  • About Mending Walls…Sort of, by Sydney Lea

    The COVID-19 scourge has moved a horde of people to my home state,
    Essays and Comment
  • Resurrecting the Body of Beloved, which is the World in the Body of the Book; Transformation, Transcendence and Redemption and Interview with Gregory Orr by Nancy Mitchell

    Resurrecting the Body of Beloved, which is the World in the Body of the Book; Transformation, Transcendence and Redemption  …

    Featured Selection
  • Three Poems Translated by Brian Henry

    I’m not my own bacterium,
  • Hongo, Hirshfield, Andrews, et. al.

    Garrett Hongo on “To a Soldier in Ukraine”: Like everyone else, I’ve been horrified by the invasion and killings in…

    Editors Note
  • Memorial by Rigoberto Paredes translated from Spanish by Frances Simán

    return to the place where we left our life
  • In which I am confronted by a superhero

    I’m hitting fast forward to skip the gruesome bits of an Icelandic mystery
  • A Story of Mother Mary I Could Believe

    The woman who was Mary knew things.
  • The Latch

    One sound, the click of the latch on the gate,
  • Two poems by Louis-Philippe Dalembert translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson

    dune of a beauty
  • ABC Minors

    Painted in oils on wood, the entire composition
  • Strange     that Penelope

    does not question or pray in a selfish manner
  • I open the windows.

    What I wanted
  • To a Soldier in Ukraine

    A soldier must know three things—
  • Three Poems

    Resingeing his right palm each take,