Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
Interview
The Hollywood Glacier
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
Sand Flats, UT
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
The Gallery of America
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”
Embodied Experience: An Interview With Sandra Faulkner
I thought there were things we created to survive us, and somewhere else the things we created to survive. Poetic inquiry has shown me the two are indistinct.
The Journey of Nightingale — an Interview with Paisley Rekdal
We’re honored to have had the chance to explore with Paisley Rekdal the journey of her new collection, Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press).
Becoming Poet: Christopher Soto
We’re honored to have had the chance to chat with the talented poet new Christopher Soto, with work in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, Tin House, Boston Review, and founded the Undocupoets Campaign—here’s what he has to say about his journey of becoming poet. His first collection, a chapbook, Sad Girl Poems was released from Sibling Rivalry Press.
The Journey of SOFT SCIENCE — an Interview with Franny Choi
We’re honored to have had the chance to explore with Palette columnist Franny Choi the journey of her new second book, Soft Science (Alice James Books, June 2019). She’s invited us in to see the gritty aspects of publication: the passions and the doubts, the rejections and the (eventual) acceptance. Learn more about Soft Science here.
Talking Craft with Matthew Zapruder, Author of Why Poetry
Why Poetry was released in 2017 and has remained since a passionate and plain spoken blueprint for both …