Distant Mandate

semiautomatic

Christopher&nbsp;Spaide&nbsp;is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University, where he studies and teaches modern and contemporary poetry. His poems and criticism have appeared in&nbsp;Boston Review,&nbsp;Poetry,&nbsp;Prelude,&nbsp;The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

Christopher Spaide

History Lessons: Evie Shockley’s “semiautomatic” and Ange Mlinko’s “Distant Mandate”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Enchantée

Ready to Sing: Angie Estes’s Enchantée

Christopher&nbsp;Spaide&nbsp;is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard University, where he studies and teaches modern and contemporary poetry. His poems and criticism have appeared in&nbsp;Boston Review,&nbsp;Poetry,&nbsp;Prelude,&nbsp;The Yale Review, and elsewhere.