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What I’m Reading Now… by Dan Rosenberg
Dan Rosenberg on Inger Christensen, alphabet, translated by Susanna Nied; Paul Celan, Breathturn into Timestead, translated by Pierre Joris; James Allen Hall, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well; Eileen Simpson, Poets in Their Youth; and Aase Berg, Hackers, translated by Johannes Göransson.
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
What I’m Reading Now… by Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo on Monique Wittig, Andrew Joron, Leonard Peltier, Olga Viso, Gloria Moure, Hannah Arendt, Aimé Césaire, Eduardo Galeano, Margaret Randall, Andrew Boyd, and more.
What I’m Reading Now… by Thylias Moss
Thylias Moss on Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr; The Story of Jumping Mouse, by John Steptoe; Schindler’s List, by Thomas Keneally; Contact, by Carl Sagan; Touch the Universe, by Noreen Grice; and Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison.
What I’m Reading Now… by Tyrone Williams
Tyrone Williams on Jordan Scott, Night & Ox (Coach House); Donato Mancini, Loitersack (New Star); Brenda Iijima, If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta); Graham Swift, Waterland (Vintage); and Roma Tearne, Brixton Beach (Harper).
“Political Punch” reviewed by Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young reviews Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley & Erin Elizabeth Smith (Sundress Publications, 2016): “A collection that speaks to our culture and time, and will only become more relevant as the next few years unfold.”
What I’m Reading Now… by Adam Giannelli
Adam Gianelli on What Are We Not For, by Tommye Blount; The Tribute Horse, by Brandon Som; Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell; Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag; and Blert, by Jordan Scott.
What I’m Reading Now… by Jennifer Mackenzie
Jennifer Mackenzie on Damascus, the Syrian uprising, predation, denial, Harmony Holiday, Emily Bludworth de Barrios, Fred Moten, Melissa Buzzeo, and Laleh Khalili.
What I’m Reading Now… by Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영
Sun Yung Shin on Kaveh Akbar, Judith Butler, Janice Lee, James Baldwin, Raoul Peck, and Vi Khi Nao.
Caroline Manring’s “Manual for Extinction” reviewed by Julia Madsen
"Caroline Manring’s Manual for Extinction exquisitely traces an ecopoetics of loss in the face of industrialism and myths of progress, revealing through nuance and beauty the 'news that stays news.'"
What I’m Reading Now… by Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses books and anthologies by Fatimah Asghar, Kate Colby, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Christine Wertheim.
Selah Saterstrom’s “Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics,” reviewed by Abby Hagler
Abby Hagler reviews Selah Saterstrom's brilliant Ideal Suggestions: Essays In Divinatory Poetics (Essay Press, 2017): "A book dedicated to not only showing the link between the diviner and the writer, but also to helping a reader recognize the diviner within."
What I’m Reading Now… by Piper J. Daniels
TS author Piper J. Daniels (Ladies Lazarus) discusses books by Catherine Bresner, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Akwaeke Emezi, and Danez Smith, as well as a collaboration by Elizabeth J. Colen and Carol Guess.
What I’m Reading Now… by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen discusses the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as well as plays and books and pamphlets by Lauren Yee, Dan O’Brien, Thi Bui, Susan Howe, and James Salter.
What I’m Reading Now… by Chen Chen
Chen Chen discusses books and chapbooks by Denton Welch, Amy Meng, Natalie Eilbert, and Sam Herschel, as well as loving a TV lesbian dramedy with magic and intergalactic battles.