Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once said about sight: “The brain has developed a way to look out upon the world. The eye is a piece of the brain that is touching light, so to speak,…
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“Night’s Shadow-Grove of Losses”: A Review of Carl Phillips’ Pale Colors in a Tall Field
In The Art of Description: World into Word, poet and essayist Mark Doty demonstrates how Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” “[tracks] the pathways of [the poet’s] scrutiny.” Bishop herself likened the process to the baroque…
Discussions on Diversity: Joe Biel
In this series of interviews, Jay Butler and Sarah Moffat examine how recent antiracist activism has affected the publishing industry. Is diversity merely a marketing convention, or are publishers truly striving towards literary equity? As…
“Heaven is a Photograph”: An Interview with Christine Sloan Stoddard
Sally Brown had the opportunity to interview Christine Stoddard about her recent book, Heaven is a Photograph (2020 CLASH Books), a book of poetry and photography exploring the relationship between an artist and her craft….
“What Our Mothers Prepare For Us”: A Review of Jihyun Yun’s Some Are Always Hungry
In her debut collection, Some Are Always Hungry, Jihyun Yun explores a sense of longing and belonging in a constant state of flux—through experiences that are specific to being a Korean-American, immigrant woman. Yun’s speaker…