• 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’s new book, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, will be out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Sibling Rivalry Press will publish his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures, this fall.

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    #49 - Claire Gibson

    Claire Gibson

    There will be no putting things back together the way they were before. Like a house ripped apart, like a rift in a family tree, like a country ravaged by pandemic—we must commit to becoming something new. Something made of equal parts heartache and healing.

    A Tribute to Wyatt Prunty

    Lee Conell

    I was getting too worried about all that noise around symbolism, around beauty, around birds. I needed to be silent in some different way with that scene. If the stupid emotional truths were really stupid, at least I’d try to hear them, to identify them more clearly.

    Stanzas: Jorie Graham

    Carl Phillips

    I’ve always favored open stanzas that allow their open-endedness to resonate with a meaning that remains unstated, but understood. Yes, the resonances may be misleading, out of context; how, then, to make them meaningfully misleading?

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