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By Alice Notley“Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.”
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“Choose Hope or Despair”: On John Shoptaw
By Jenny Odell“When I first read these poems and was trying to describe them to a friend, I said they felt cosmic, even though they often take place in Shoptaw’s backyard or around his Berkeley neighborhood.”
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Concerning the Future of Souls
By Joy Williams“Each birth is not the creation of a soul but the completion of the transmigration from one body to another. There is no such thing as a new soul.”
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Making of a Poem: Maureen N. McLane on “Haptographic Interface”
By Maureen N. McLane“The speaker is a kind of Keats-bot, perhaps.”
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By Elijah Bailey“Stars were born for stages. Y’all have fun rolling round the gravel lot.”
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Life Poem 1
By Elisa Gabbert“three deer, large as memory objects. / They stood in a circle / as if they knew life was a game.”
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Miracle Garden
By Farah Al Qasimi“The mall wants you to see only what it shows you. Its illusions are Al Qasimi’s images.”