Through two chronological poem sequences, Bradfield creates a new kind of log book. She traces the movement of explorers starting in 1820, through the glacial landscape, and inserts definition poems linking terms from an eighteenth-century navigational manual with her own approaches to love and ice.
Working from photographs and visual memory to create sparse but lyric poems, Norman Finkelstein’s newest collection, Inside the Ghost Factory, functions as an ars poetica, yet goes further than the parameters of a poetic theory, by expanding the sense of art beyond its most basic aesthetic definition.
Featured poetry from the Summer 2011 issue.
First in the Mountain West Poetry series, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell “Kryah’s lines are full of figurative grace: The images stun and accumulate. We Are Starved introduces an important poetic vision, a surprising and exciting voice.” —Laura Kasischke, author of Space, in Chains and The Raising “In haunted days more filled with […]
Chapbook. Design by Gordon Hadfield and Sasha Steensen. Edition of 75 copies.
Winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by final judge Donald Revell. Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the 2008 Iowa Poetry Prize and received a New American Poet honor from the Poetry Society of America. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in many journals, including Boston Review, Kenyon […]
Original, inventive: we want our poets to be bold. We want the poems to add up to more than the sum of their parts. We want the sublime, the open-to-the-bone exclamation of epiphany. And we’d like the poem to be smart but not too intellectual. Why not? In her second book, The Irrationalist, Suzanne Buffam […]
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.
Featured poetry from the Spring 2011 issue.