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Issue #130 June 2022

Hendrik Kerstens,  “Cosy”

  • Buckley, Levitin, Smith, et. al.

    Christopher Buckley on “Heisenberg’s Principle”: Again the argument of science vs. faith/fate . . . the two main tenents of…

    Editors Note

  • Salgado Maranhão’s “Mythic Ground” translated by Alexis Levitin

    For the living, this is the ground,

  • Ekaterina Derisheva’s “in the ‘war’ mode” and “Houses Discuss” translated by Tatiana Retivov

    while they sort out who helped more

  • The Book of Guests

    They gamboled toward me on the plain—two lambs

  • Genesis and The Anonymous City

    God made the world with his mouth.

  • Lesley Wheeler’s “Poetry’s Possible Worlds” reviewed by Jane Zwart

    In poetry and prose, Lesley Wheeler contends, “the ratio of sound to sense is different.”
    Book Review

  • Fragments of The Sacrificial World

    Porpoises feed every morning in the shallows

  • Football & the English Language

    My first year as high school coach, five points

  • ASH

    I shall go back

  • when it is time

    you pass that bridge

  • Beginning and Whatever Doesn’t Kill Your Mother Makes Her Stronger

    One of the first days my mom’s in the ICU, I try to describe

  • Blue Rim

    Set the table with your heirloom

  • Heisenberg’s Principle

    Look. We’re somewhere

  • Instagram

    What if I was uttered into existence through the teamwork of cultists

  • Done with Desire Forever: Color Music Poems of the 18th Century by Rosalind Holmes Duffy

    Regardless of how much eighteenth-century French poetry you read, you may be unfamiliar with the miniscule canon of verse about color music.
    Essays and Comment

  • FORGIVENESS/ACCEPTANCE, Sally Bliumis-Dunn

    For this feature, I solicited work from poets I admire that show this kind of psychological transformation and asked each writer to describe it as best they could.
    Featured Selection