Forest Sounds: A Conversation with Carl Phillips
By Interview Issue 112
For me, the restlessness leads to the next poem.
Read MoreNightmare on Fountain Run Road
By Poetry Issue 112
I dream myself the boy thrown
from the Jeep again: face, burlap
to hide what the boys made
with their fists.
Sheltering in Place
By Poetry Issue 112
A friend reminded me recently of joy—
my joy. My laugh, infectious, she said.
LOGOS Collective: Poetry, Ritual, Conversation
By Issue 112
The hope is that by having attended to poets’ work wholeheartedly, we will come to see the world and those who move within it a little more clearly, so that we may love it, and one another, a little better and put that love into action.
Read MoreThe Priestesses Are Singing Slow
By Poetry Issue 112
Even a book is simple in this folded
World. Though my throne is hidden, the horn-shaped moon
Annihilation
By Poetry Issue 112
somewhere someone is dying you remember but
see the ache and its grace in frantic flight
Ezra Bookman
By Issue 112
I believe there is no such thing as a healthy individual without community or culture, and no such thing as a healthy community or culture without ritual.
Read MoreGuide to Some Magical Creatures
By Poetry Issue 112
You think it’s enough to wait all morning
for snow that never comes while up
in the atmosphere flakes drift for hours
without touching the ground.
Read MoreIn the Studio
By Visual Art Issue 112
I’ve been struck by the immense beauty in the communities I have been a part of, both in Nigeria and now in Canada, as well as grieved by the levels of hardship. The motif of the garden, which I explore in my work, has become a place for me to sit with this contradiction.
Read MoreLent
By Poetry Issue 112
The lake has a provisional name. It has had other names. It’s possible those names were also in some way provisional, unless the lake has a name for itself. Facing it, it’s feasible to believe that the lake really does have a name, one it has given to itself and that it keeps. It keeps…
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