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a however of things, a hope for gorgeous insults, an arrival of sky-like hues, a renewal of everyday life,

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from the journal Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion

Interview: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"As someone who has taught nature writing for decades, I can tell you when I set my students to a writing task, I ask them (in so many words) to start with and from a place of love"

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Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Judge of the 2025 Nature Poetry Prize - Palette Poetry

"Today here in March, a new study revealed we’ve lost 22% of the butterflies on this planet. I mean, we are ...

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Essay: "Bugs are notoriously good analogues for human antics, ethics, and morality."

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In Praise of Poetry About Bugs

Poetry and bugs should be thought of more often together. My friend, the poet Sara Nicholson, once told me she ...

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Interview: Steven Espada Dawson

"When you’re someone caught between two places it can be hard to know whether that carrying is a life vest or a haunting."

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Late to the Search Party: An Interview with Steven Espada Dawson

Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as poet laureate. ...

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Conversation: Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali.

The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.

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BOMB Magazine | Patrycja Humienik by Sarah Ghazal Ali

The debut poet on secrets immigrant daughters keep and the obliterating lure of the internet.

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Profile: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize.
Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.

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There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize

Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.

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Interview: "The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum"

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The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature

Rob Macaisa Colgate’s formally inventive collection creates a world of care and intimacy

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Essay: Notes with Alice Notley.

"Something begins in the presence of this tree ravished by wind as the mind seeks Alice Notley."

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Essay: The Future Will be Translated: A Manifesto in Three Lies. Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation.

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The Future Will be Translated: A Manifesto in Three Lies

In my early twenties, I worked one summer as domestic help in a private residence for rich male university stude...

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Announcement: CLMP Announces the 2025 Firecracker Awards Finalists

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CLMP Announces the 2025 Firecracker Awards Finalists - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

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Interview: Margaret Ross

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Short Conversations with Poets: Margaret Ross

One of the things so compelling about Margaret Ross’s Saturday is her obsessive fidelity to a purity of descript...

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This week's issue: Nathan Spoon on “The Three Trees at Hudimesnil”

Catch Up on Recent Poems

June 16, 2025

The Three Trees at Hudimesnil

Nathan Spoon

The difficulty is in knowing where to draw the line.

June 15, 2025

Father

John F. Deane

I saw the small brown flecks of wisdom like rust-drops on his hands

June 14, 2025

local remedies

Chiagoziem Jideofor

like prayers and hymns like a fence of gmelina trees blocking the sun

June 13, 2025

A Child of Immigrants

Ángel García

The phone rings. I pick up. The voice, unrecognizable.

June 12, 2025

Salute to Walt Whitman (excerpt)

Fernando Pessoa (translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari)

I cannot be the first in anything, because there is no first. I therefore prefer the nothing of being only that being nothing.

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