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§  Aphoristic form is deceitfully simple. It’s a prose-poetic form with an air of philosophic certainty, in which particularities are supposed to open onto universals, even though connecting them with...

In addition to many new poems and translations from Asiya Wadud, Aditi Machado, Renee Gladman, and more, the issue features the portfolio, “‘These Blazing Forms’: The Life and Work of...

We can’t ignore our limitations, of course, but they shouldn’t be a reason not to translate in the first place. Perhaps one has to admit [...] that one never will...

Opening scene: A translator is in her office, talking on the phone. She is surrounded by piles of books and papers, in a haze of smoke from the cigarette she...

What I am always puzzling over in her writing and thinking is how it declares questions with such aplomb, a poetics of salvage that doesn’t look for an elsewhere but...

Poetry, in my post of last month, was rather like a personified being than a branch of language art. “Poetry made me do this,” I came close to saying, “poetry...

I first became acquainted with the idea of poetry ancestors when I read a 2015 lecture by Joy Harjo. When she talked about ancestors of poems and poetry genealogies, I...

As soon as you think you get a hold of this cyborg’s story, she cuts the emerging (and comforting) integrative flow and disables your human-centric, and very normative, desires.

In that encounter, I learned that I was Appalachian, that my tongue had smuggled the mountains with me across the commonwealth. Startled by the sound of my own voice when...

Sounds and resonances are liquid: they can be poured like wine, they can flood the soul, they can cross borders uncontained and unpoliced. As I drive between Tijuana and San...