All Souls

James Ciano is currently a provost fellow at the University of Southern California, pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, and Bennington Review, among others.

James Ciano

What Practice Will Help Prepare Me: On Saskia Hamilton’s “All Souls”

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

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

Poetry

Trace Evidence

If You Are on This Earth You Are of This Earth: On Charif Shanahan’s “Trace Evidence”

James Ciano is currently a provost fellow at the University of Southern California, pursuing a PhD in literature and creative writing. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, and Bennington Review, among others.