Best New Poets Nominees
Congratulations and good luck to our nominees for Best New Poets! Katie Schmid, “Apple Glory” Katherine Stingley, “A Daughter is a Pilgrim”
A Review of Sweet & Low: Stories by Nick White
Time after time in Nick White’s second book, Sweet and Low, characters confront dilemmas they “haven’t yet found a language for.” In “Cottonmouth, Trapjaw, Water Moccasin” a solitary bigot is crushed underneath a wrecked lawnmower, bellowing impotently knowing “no one would hear him,” out alone in the country, abandoned by a [...]
Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful: An Interview with Dorothy Chan
...splitting time between writing, editing, teaching, and all things poetic is something Chan sees as a dream life, a fantasy come true. This idea–the true life fantasy–is something that often surfaces in her poetry whether that is creating the perfect array of dishes for a meal or the fetishization of [...]