Category: Special Features
“Muddying the Gulf: On Families and Secrets” by Sadia Hassan
Sadia Hassan reviews Steven Espada Dawson’s debut poetry collection, Late to the Search Party
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Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
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Special Feature: “A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee” by Kimberly Reyes
Our latest special feature, a poem by Kimberly Reyes about natural interdependence, the physicality of intimacy, and cicadas.
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Folio: Family Secrets
In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.
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“Weaving a Ne(s)t for Our Ghosts” by Jennifer S. Cheng
Jennifer S. Cheng on the complicated craft of writing family secrets.
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“Let Me Whisper in Your Ear: A Craft Essay” by Shara Lessley
Shara Lessley on the craft of writing about family secrets in literary nonfiction
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“On Family History and Fiction” by James Stewart III
Debut novelist James Stewart III on the craft of writing fiction about family secrets
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“Knowledge and Responsibility: A Review of Morgan Talty’s Fire Exit” by Jessica E. Johnson
Jessica E. Johnson reviews Morgan Talty’s novel Fire Exit
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Special Feature: Love, Romance, and Desire
A roundup of romantic miCRos for Valentine’s Day
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Special Feature: “Sitting Inside the Poem” by Richard Hague
Cincinnati writer Richard Hague on a local landmark and its connections to his experiences reading a poem closely and personally.
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Special Feature: “long live the queen” by Tramaine Suubi
A poem that traverses nearly two millennia of African queens, in stanzas that overlap seamlessly
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The Inward Pull and Pulsation: On the Erotics of Faylita Hicks’s A Map of My Want and Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle
Dorothy Chan on books by Faylita Hicks and Michael Chang that use sex in poetry to challenge norms.
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