Karla Huston

Soap Woman

In this poem, Karla Huston contemplates a museum exhibit of a woman’s body that has turned to soap.

Debra Salazar

Recycling

In this creative nonfiction piece, a woman recycles her dead lover’s computer and discovers the difficulty of letting go.

Liz Dolan

Early Sorrow

A poem by Liz Dolan explores children’s responses to death.

Brent Adkins

How (Not) to Think about Death: A Meditation on Life

This essay argues that although it is common in contemporary philosophy to claim that the ineluctability of death entails its internality, thinking of death as ineluctable and external is much more fruitful.

Cate Whetzel

A Review of Katie Ford’s Colosseum

Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”

Christina Cook

Tomatoes of Kobarid

A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.