On Craft: Rebecca Bernard on Plotting Character
A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa
From our Contributors
Robert Thomas reads from “Sonnets with Riff and Hook”
Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.
From Our Contributors: A Tour of Crimea with Yekaterina Droog
3 minutes reading time Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter: As North Americans, when we think about current-day Crimea, our first, and perhaps only, association may be with war. In her haunting essay in Issue 21.1, “Gone Are the Blackberries, the Alycha, the Asters, and the Rusty Spigot,” Yekaterina Droog pays tribute to her grandfather’s lost …
From Our Contributors: Hadley Moore On Iconic Images of Our Assassinated Political Heroes
Hadley Moore explores what we can learn from photos of our fallen heroes.
From Our Contributors: Down the Rabbit Hole—Strange Rabbits in Art, by Nikki Barnhart
Nikki Barnhart shares the artworks that inspired her story in issue 21.1, “Rabbit, Rabbit.”
From Our Contributors: Rethinking The Urban Pastoral, by Malik Thompson
“Encountering Shepherd’s essay as a younger poet, I recall being eager to wrestle with the unspoken challenge asserted by this sharp, studied elder. How do I write the city?”
From Our Contributors: The Tubercled-Blossom Pearly Mussel Memorial Library of Hope, by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
Mandy-Suzanne Wong welcomes us to a library where artists mourn, and collaborate with, mussels who may be extinct.
From Our Contributors: A Playlist to Accompany “The Forager’s Guide,” by Rebecca Griswold
Rebecca Griswold shares a playlist to accompany her poem in issue 21.1, “The Forager’s Guide.”
Special Feature: Christine Hale on Kevin McIlvoy’s “Gemels”
Contributor Christine Hale looks closely at grief and creativity by way of “Gemels,” a poem by her late husband, Kevin McIlvoy.
A Literary Pesto Recipe to Kick Off Your Spring
Ravi Mangla shares an unusual recipe for pesto.