No. 41 Summer 2023 PROSE
Featured Emerging Poet
Erin O’Luanaigh
presented by Sarah Rose Nordgren
Contributors’ Marginalia
Joinery
Ted Jean on Kelan Nee’s “Translation”
Algebra and Alchemy
Peter Kline on Traci Brimhall’s “Hating the Phoenix is”
Urgency of Bothness
Kelan Nee on Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s “List”
The Tenor Sings
Richard Foerster on Morri Creech’s “Bedtime Metaphysics”
Dear Seaside
Traci Brimhall on Leila Chatti’s “Seaside”
A Machine Made of Words
Don Bogen on John A. Nieves’s “I Built a Goodbye Machine”
Maculate Conception
John Philip Drury on Paula Cisewski’s “Superfoetation”
A Note on Form
Morri Creech on Shane McCrae’s “2020”
A Promise Is the Words that Make It
John A. Nieves on Melissa Crowe’s “Always I’ve been trying to show you”
Reviews
To Want Is to Survive: Katie Farris’s Standing in the Forest of Being Alive
Celeste Lipkes
Through the Lit Up Transparency: Ben Mazer’s The Ruined Millionaire: New Selected Poems 2002-2022
Blake Campbell
Interviews
Into Each Iteration of the Future
Rachel Mennies