Issue 58

“All Girls’ Girls” and Other Poems

Editor's Note The first thing I noticed about Shivani Agrawal’s poems was not the words…

‘At Sunset’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note In Louise Glück’s poem ‘Rainy Morning’, the speaker accuses: ‘You don’t love the…

‘The Right Kind of Stealing’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Jayant Kashyap’s poem ‘The Right Kind of Stealing’ reminded me of Arun Kolatkar’s…

‘God of Beginnings, God of Endlings’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Contemporary ekphrastic poetry has come to mean verses that are written about works…

‘Golden Shovel with the Language of Trees’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Becca McKay's intriguing set of poems reminds me of the words of 19th…

‘it’s life, and life only’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note What kind of a strange lovechild is a prose poem? What is it…

‘Ampersand’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Selena Spier’s poems employ a register that is technical and scientific to explore…

‘Teaching My Cousin To Sketch A Happy Man’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note Reading these poems reminded me of a conversation I once had with an…

‘How We Drown’ and Other Poems

Editor's Note What is that tired saying about actions speaking louder than words? Or a…

Chicken Manchurian

Editor's Note Revolutions often tiptoe in. We accept cellphones, for example, figuring we have a…