An interview with poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell on editing, meter, and her recent collection, “Might Could.”
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“Broken Houses”: Seeking Roots in an Uncertain World
A review of Chelsea Rathburn’s recent poetry collection, “Broken Houses.”
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“A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife” Is an Earnest Archive of Loss
Yet even wrangling against existential horrors, Wright reminds readers that even this imperfect moment in which we exist is worth noting carefully and archiving.
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A Poet Longs for Another Home, Another Body, in “Let the Forest Go”
A review of Justin Wymer’s poetry collection, “Let the Forest Go.”
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The Impractical, the Unlikely, the Impossible: A Conversation with Angela Ball
Through leaps and revelations, the speaker of Angela Ball’s poems in her new collection, “Steeplechase,” shows how the boundaries between places don’t really separate them but shape how they come into relation with one another.
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An Ecofeminist Genesis, Painted Over and Made New
To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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A Poet Longs for Home in “Entered Some Aliens”
A review of Siew Hii’s “Entered Some Aliens.”
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“Of Water Never Ceasing” Expands Our Understanding of Pain
A review of Kristin Entler’s debut poetry collection, “Of Water Never Ceasing.”
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The Poems in “Reverse Requiem” Juice with Life
A review of Ina Cariño’s sophomore poetry collection, “Reverse Requiem.”
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2026 Southern Summer Book Club Kickoff
Join us for the first book of our Southern Summer Book Club, the poetry collection “Night Owl” by Aimee Nezukumatathil.
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