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Timothy Donnelly’s “To the Alien”
Timothy Donnelly imagines the daunting task of encapsulating humanity’s woes, in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
Poetry
"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage
Jeremy Ra’s “Janis Carter Lives in Gambia for Years to Rehabilitate Lucy the Chimp Back into the Wild”
Jeremy Ra inhabits the conflicted mind of chimpanzee caretaker Janis Carter in a poem from LARB Quarterly no. 46: “Alien.”
The Deep Engine of Witness
Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”
Days of Wayward Gifts
Dan Beachy-Quick soaks in Joe Deany-Braun’s “Young Santa,” Sayumi Kamakura’s “Applause for a Cloud,” and James Shea’s “Last Day of My Face.”
The Lucent Light of Lethal Pain
Katie Berta examines the properties of grief in Prageeta Sharma’s new poetry collection “Onement Won.”
Neither Off the Hook nor Out to Dry
James Ciano interviews Bobby Elliott about his debut poetry collection, “The Same Man.”
God and Sex and Money
Tierney Finster interviews Maya Martinez about her debut book, “Theatrics: Collected Theatrical Writings.”
jump cuts to mystery at edge of protest
Kate Millar reviews Anne Waldman’s “Archivist Scissors.”
Time to Get Out of Yourself
Patricio Ferrari interviews award-winning poet Victoria Chang on the occasion of her Limelight Poetry reading at the New York Public Library.
Cough Up the Pill
David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero’s new collection “Stay Dead.”
Ungatherable Being
Martha Ronk thinks about Kristen Case’s “Daphne.”
If I Was Undercover Now I Wouldn’t Say
C. Francis Fisher investigates Richard Siken’s “I Do Know Some Things.”
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