Special Features

In “Master’s Mirror,” Steinorth reminds us that the purpose of erasure poetry isn’t to erase, but the opposite—it is to reveal what has already been obscured.

Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.