To Arm Ourselves Instead with Questions
By Interview Issue 120
What I have decided, at least for now, is that I’m not afraid of the struggle. Jacob’s struggle with the man (or angel?) is my struggle. I’m not letting go. I’m holding on for the blessing. Blessing
Read MoreThe Other World, and This One: Immanent and Transcendent Tendencies in Contemporary Poetry
By Culture Issue 114
I look to poets not to confirm my ideas of the world and of God but to be shaken awake by their vision.
Read MorePlague Psalm 90
By Poetry Issue 110
A psalm for the plague year by Philip Metres: “Loss, you have been our regent, / Refusing the refugees / you sent. / / Truly we’re boxed in an annex / Of the mansion / of your text.”
Read MoreElegy for D.S.
By Poetry Issue 73
Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God…. —Isaiah 40:1-5 Until the day falls there is nothing I can say, my friend. Until the mountain kneels. He suffered so long in wordless suffering, a pain without wounds. May your brother, who belongs now to remember, be restored to light as wood is by ember.…
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