One River, One Boat
by Marjorie Wentworth · March 24, 2015As South Carolina’s Poet Laureate, I have written quite a few occasional poems for a wide variety events—from the opening of a bridge to the closing [...]
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“The Future Once”: Exploring Alienation and Elegy in Tracy K. Smith’s LIFE ON MARS
by Andrea Rogers · March 10, 2015A few years ago, as I read Tracy K. Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Life On Mars, I began to wonder why it affected me as it did, [...]
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Connecting with Jennifer Haigh’s “Thrift”
by Monica Johnson · February 20, 2015Hearts. Balloons. Red. Pink. Love. Ah, February. Valentines, sold in neat packages, on printed greeting cards, and arranged in vases. Love sold as compact, predictable, and [...]
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Connecting with Mary Oliver’s “Last Night The Rain Spoke To Me”
by Monica Johnson · February 13, 2015January is the mark of a new year, the month of resolutions, new beginnings, potential, and possibility. As we slide into February, I’d like to take [...]
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Confab with a Contributor: Lauren Groff
by Soniah Kamal · February 07, 20151) “Good People,” featured in Vol. 16, No. 2, is about a wife coming to terms with her husband and son and the losses they make [...]
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Down Memory Lane: Larry Levis’s ELEGY
by Andrea Rogers · January 30, 2015By the time I read Larry Levis’s Elegy in 2004, I had already been writing poetry for a decade. Despite this fact, I had never considered [...]
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