Let’s say something about distances that escape through the body. About what the body needs to say as its joints go silent. Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances.

Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River, I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream, Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings, We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred ...

Join us for an open mic reading featuring undergraduate writers from the Area Program in Poetry Writing (APPW) and the Area Program in Literary Prose (APLP) at UVA. This event will be free and open to ...

In 2024, the Academy of American Poets invited twelve poets to each curate a month of poems. In this short Q&A, Sawako Nakayasu discusses her curatorial approach and her own creative work. Sawako ...

Now, during his Guest Editor Q&A in January 2022, Joseph O. Legaspi described how you infuse what he called “nonpolitical elements” into your work, including recipes and menus, particularly in Loves ...

“To know history is to know yourself, said Filipino national hero José Rizal. So it was confusing to live and write in the Philippines a few years back, where gone was every historical and cultural ...

Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men’s are, dead. Dull ...

Anne Fountain is an Argentinian translator, editor, and a professor emerita at San José State University where she taught courses in Latin American culture and civilization and Spanish American ...

The seed is a wound in the form of a little girl buried alive. Buried inside me the sol de la terre. What do I remember of ...

ARIANA BENSON’s collection Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) has received the LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE. This $25,000 award recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published ...

Interdisciplinary artist Teja Sudhakar was born in Chennai, India, and spent the majority of their life in Lexington, Kentucky. They are an MFA candidate at Indiana University. Sudhakar’s work ...

Erect, erotic chiaroscuro of cock the gun, pull the trigger— a flash goes off. My Polaroid is hot capturing the perfect position; poised human bodies, stretched to their extremes in a display of sex ...