What is this lifeblood if not a river?
I enter my body as exit strategy.
I come from a long line of fathers
without fathers. I've said too much.
Gray Davidson Carroll
from the journal
Epiphany
“Giannisi’s poetry challenges the delusion that humans stand apart from nature, either as masters or saviours. Instead, she invites her readers to recognise that we are composite creatures…”
The Conversation
“We look at language and the law, navigating thorny questions of language as a tool and as a weapon when it comes to treaties, to Land Back, and Layli’s art and writing practice engaging with it…”
Between The Covers
“I was unlucky in that I have a learning disability that made school fairly hellish. The teachers knew I wasn’t stupid, but I also couldn’t legitimately pass a math class after 6th grade…”
On The Seawall
“For waste collection workers such as Paul Keijzer, who started driving Rotterdam litter trucks in 1988, the poetry gives an added connection to the city…”
The Guardian
“I’m suspicious of borders even on the page. I’m wary of the limits of tradition, expectation and genre…”
Poetry Northwest
“Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul…”
Poetry Foundation
“My long tenure writing poetry means I often use its techniques instinctively. Strong image, which lies at the heart of much poetry, resonates in fiction…”
Literary Hub
“If there’s any kind of intended reader in mind, it’s someone who’s kind of like me in that they have been minoritized or oppressed in some way…”
Debutiful
“Gilbert’s use of collage has its roots in family history as well. Their mother is an avid scrapbooker, who Gilbert cites as their greatest inspiration for Holly’s visual form…”
The Adroit Journal
“Her work has increasingly turned towards ecology. She has worked with water for more than 50 years, and she describes the current situation in Chile as both devastating and potentially…”
The Guardian
“Why nature poetry? Why even bother with it? Because it is a minor American pastime, a sort of verbal apple pie, sometimes a rite of passage thrust upon the poet who would be American…”
Alta
“With ‘We,’ Long Soldier vacillates between prose, multimedia, and textuality as she wages what she describes as “a war of language.” The result is a brilliantly nuanced record of injustice…”
Chicago Review of Books
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- October 29, 2026
Snehal Vadher
Once, when three, you had almost drowned
in the village pond. The light of Ankleshwar
must have appeared as though in a pinhole
- October 28, 2026
Okwudili Nebeolisa
If it happened in the dream, would calling it
trauma be apt? I buried my face
- October 27, 2026
Ace Boggess
I have bad spots like bruises in an apple's meat.
Maybe the whole tree's rotten to its roots.
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