• Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    Spring 2019

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

    Carl Phillips is the author of Then the War, which received the Pulitzer Prize. His next book, Scattered Snows, to the North, will be out in 2024.

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    Stanzas: Jorie Graham

    Dana Levin

    For our Stanzas web feature, we ask writers to introduce us to their favorite poets by way of a handful of lines. This week, Dana Levin, whose poem “Into the Next Eden” appears in our Fall 2021 issue, takes a closer look at “Pollock and Canvas” by Jorie Graham.

    Autumn Day

    Karen Solie

    From the shop adjacent wafts the incense
    of coffee and the vulgar muffins, overstuffed as geese
    with funnels down their throats, truly the muffins of a culture on the brink
    of steep decline.

    A Micro-Interview with Alice McDermott

    Annie Adams

    "I don’t think you can form a fictional character and then determine where to put him or her down, like those Instagram photos where people hold up the same stuffed monkey in front of the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, etc. For me, landscape is character and—more importantly, perhaps—character is landscape. Brooklyn through Charming Billy’s eyes, experiences, and personality is not Brooklyn through Marie’s in Someone’s, or the nuns’ in The Ninth Hour.""

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