"What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, eel, newt, hummingbird ...

Go ahead, tell me-what words do you love? For to love a word is to love the sound it makes. To love a word is to hear the bells in it; to use a ...

In Claire Wahmanholm’s Night Vision, we are made to witness narrative’s inevitable unravelling. By placing hybrid prose in conversation ...

Resurrected and restored through the bodies of multitudes, a young woman who becomes an organ donor after a car accident radiates unmitigated love as ...

"Brent Armendinger's poems are smart, elegiac, and wonderful, filled with formal play, the vapor between rainfall, skies full of knives, and the memories ...

Oh man, this is a good one. The 19 scenarios in Eric Burger's  Sizzle, a finalist for the 2022 NMP/ DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition,   are wild ...

In this work, the Heartland is not an inert pastoral surface. It's a worn-out VHS tape you find under the bed. It's the scratching sound of a rat in the ...

QUICKENING, I READ ABOUT THE CLAM’S HEART in the dream / the bears / are actual bears / the bears are big / and brown / the bears / are angry ...

"There is no other writer like Nicole Walker for weaving a fabric that incorporates all the threads of her reality: the scientific and the poetic, the ...

“Highly inventive, these poems feel driven by emotional and cultural urgency, as earthquakes shock every part of the system, personal and collective. ...