Luci Shaw

Translation

After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]

Amy McCann

Marrow

In “Marrow,” Amy McCann finds something sinister in the supposed comfort and beauty of a late summer evening, the birds roosting at dusk “something to nerve to.”

D. S. Martin

Extrapolations

D. S. Martin’s “Extrapolations” considers what lies beyond our immediate perceptions and wonders if unseen wonder lies beneath the surface of our landscapes.

Austin Alexis

Survivor

In this poem, Austin Alexis compares the recovery of a Haitian earthquake survivor to the beauty of a poem.

Rickey Laurentiis

Ghazal for Emmett Till

A poem in the ghazal form that elegizes Emmett Till, an African American boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly whistling at a white woman.

Jen Grabarczyk-Turner, León Ferrari, Mira Schendel

Tangled Alphabets: An Aesthetic of Language

Tangled Alphabets, an exhibit currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City, brings together the works of visual artist contemporaries León Ferrari and Mira Schendel in their visual exploration of language.