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Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
Poetry
"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage
Two New Poems: “Of Beauty” and “Mental”
David St. John and Andrea Werblin Reid consider speech acts in their various complexities in two poems from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
That Is the Saddest Story I’ve Ever Heard
Vivian Medithi interviews Lauren Cook about his new collection, “Sex Goblin.”
Alive Beyond Life
Paul Vangelisti reviews Neeli Cherkovski’s “Selected Poems: 1959–2022.”
Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
Lifting the Horizon
Shoshana Olidort reviews Andrea Cohen’s “The Sorrow Apartments.”
Peering Through the Darkness
Regan Mies reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s “Under the Neomoon” and “Territories of the Soul/On Intonation.”
Politics of the Unspeakable
Matthew Rana reviews Ann Jäderlund’s “Lonespeech,” translated by Johannes Göransson.
Integral Witnesses
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
Life in the Archive
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
We Thought You’d Died
Allie Rowbottom interviews Cristine Brache about her new collection, “Goodnight Sweet Thing.”
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