On Tom Sleigh’s “The King’s Touch”
The King’s Touch is an extraordinary pleasure not to be missed.
On Christopher Jane Corkery’s “Love Took the Words”
Corkery’s grasp of poets—and poetics—graces each page.
When My Body Was a Clinched Fist
Notice what the poet packs into fourteen words: an exuberant greeting forever diminished, locked into a secret council of thieves.
For Ifeanyi Menkiti
Here are two poems Ifeanyi published in Green House. They are playful and serious, languid and taut.
Posthumous Keats, Posthumous Us
To trace the arc of a poet’s reputation is to consider the fate of one’s own.
Review: Dragging Anchor
What are young poets up to these days? Sometimes they invent a new gamelan, and sometimes they breathe original music through a master’s reed.