Summer Assistant Editor Arah Ko: I was thrilled to read CR editorial veteran Lisa Low’s debut full-length poetry collection Replica, the Editors’ Selection for the Wisconsin Poetry Series, released in March 2026. Hailed as a “lyrical reckoning,” this book caught my eye immediately. In celebration of the book launch, I asked Low about her poetics and …
I feel like every time I read the news these days, I log off steaming. There’s so much to be angry about, and with record-breaking heat waves in the Eastern United States, we’re sweltering outside and inside. While I was stewing in front of an AC unit and mulling over some poems, I thought, why …
He rarely spoke of the past and when he did, it wasin flashes—the Norwegian girl from ESL classes those firstAmerican years, how she scared them all riding horses bare-back, eating apples whole: seeds, stem, core. The Japaneseboy serenading the class about sake. The firstCoca-Cola he drank in the new country. How in Koreahe buried their …
Editorial Assistant Arah Ko on the ethics and craft of erasure poetry.