2018
Online Exclusives
Contents
Essays
Pietà: Richmond, Indiana
Into a World of Light: Lucie Brock-Broido, 1956–2018
Poetry
Desire
Smoke
The Angel of Memory
Untitled
Bonnie Parker’s Photoshoot
Natasha Writes Back
A Visit to the Doctor
West 26th Street
Chorus of Excisions
Requiem for a Millennium
Repurpose
by Reyna Clancy
Shelter: Michigan
The Lake
Field Work
Naming the Heartbeats
On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Egg
Swaddled in Moths
by Lynne Potts
Writing Poetry Is Like Fielding Ground Balls
by Tara Skurtu
Concussion Protocol
by Bruce Smith
Abeyance
Art Feature
Caricature of Simon Perchik
Conversations
A Conversation with Rita Dove
Reviews
On Monuments and Monoliths
Reverb
A Brief and Possibly Pointless Disquisition on Truth and Its Place in a Writer’s Life
A Nursery Rehearsal of Emigration
Ars Longa: A Complaint
Beer in the Snooker Club: Egypt Then and Now
Books Barely There
Call and Response: Two Questions with Alicia Elkort and Jenn Givhan
by agnimag
Culling: A New Year’s Reflection
Delight and Devastation: A Conversation with Ben Purkert
by agnimag
Dick Talk
by Mark Dow
Driving Cars in Clown Suits: David Shields Terrifies Novelists
Every Course to Begin with a Poem
Everything Is Writing
Fail Better: How to Succeed at Writing without Really Succeeding
Fostered Alike By Beauty and By Fear: Montale, Wordsworth and the Landscapes of Childhood
Frost and Gilmore: Poets of Humanity
by Judy Rowley
Hearing Voices: Two Questions with Patrick Dacey
by agnimag
Judaism in the Window
Listening: The Ethics of Translation
by David Ball
Lux City Living
Mine Own Neruda
Night Beat
by Lisa Chen
North
On Becoming Anti-Hero
On Bibliodiversity
by Sydney Lea
On Fear
On Food, Memory, and Writing: Three Questions with Jung Hae Chae
by agnimag
Out in Rain—and Back in Rain : On Lucy Ives’s Anamnesis
Radical Sacrifices: Three Questions on Translation with Eugene Serebryany
by agnimag
Reading the Epics in the Trump Era
by John Poch
Recycling Neruda
Spiritual Tourism: A Confession
Teaching Art to Scientists
The Continuing Story of How I Learned English
The Damage Done
by Greg Bottoms
The Gospel of Grief & Grace & Gratitude
The Light of Homer
The Murderous Edge: Three Questions with Gail Mazur
by agnimag
The Progress of Reading
The Pursuit for Mercy: Two Questions with Donald Quist
by agnimag
The Retreats
The Winter Rain of the Poets: A Report from Civita di Bagnoregio and The Bronx
There Is No Return to What Is Lost
by Sean Higgins
To Purify the Language of the Tribe
by Sydney Lea
Trains
by Rick Bursky
Tricycle: On Truth, Memory, and Making Memoir
by Greg Bottoms
Truth
by Rick Bursky
We Are Magic Talking to Itself
What a Poem Is
What Does Your Cat Want from You? A Writer’s Thoughts
by Anis Shivani
What It Really Means to Write from Experience
Why I Missed The Reading
Working in Murky Territory: Four Questions with David E. Yee
by agnimag
Writers Are Citizens of the World
Writing and the Tibetan Book of the Dead
“Checking One Belief Against Another”: A Conversation with H. L. Hix