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Outro: Poets Give Advice to Their Younger Poet Selves
I want to revisit my post from the top of the week. It is my wish that all of the poets out there working on that first (or next) book can take a breath…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Rachel McKibbens
illustration by Isabela Ramos sermon by Rachel McKibbens Each time I see a woman walking in a grocery store or sitting on a bench in a park or a funeral parlor,…
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For Autumn: Poems by Latino/a/xs: Rita Maria Martinez
Eating Corn by Rita Maria Martinez I watch as you dip the knife in the tub of Country Crock and slather the cob, witness the methodical dismemberment, how you eat one kernel, one…
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A Poet to Not Only Watch but Embrace with Open Arms: Taylor Johnson by Abdul Ali
I can't say enough positive things about Taylor Johnson, a DC-based poet, who is making a splash in poetry communities off and on the page. Read Taylor's poem, "This is How you Enter a…
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The Variable Foot (by Nin Andrews)
This comic is based on a few lines from the introduction to William Carlos William in The Oxford Anthology of American Poetry that made me laugh: “I write in the American idiom, “ Williams noted,…
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Required Reading by Abdul Ali
It's not very often that an essay published in a literary journal stops me in my tracks. The December issue of POETRY features an essay, "A Politics of Mere Being," from the esteemed poet…
