Caleb Curtiss Black Lawrence Press ($8.95) by Robert Manaster "Even now, I know I could use this moment, / / this dying thing to remember her with, / but I don't want to." Thus, triggered by a dead bird, Caleb Curtiss in A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us resists (yet retains) the memory of […]

The Correspondence between Ann Charters and Charles Olson about History and Herman Melville Ann Charters and Charles Olson Tavern Books ($17) by Patrick James Dunagan In 1992, Penguin Books published The Portable Beat Reader, edited by Ann Charters. Through the rest of the decade and beyond, the book has served as a gateway for countless […]

Eric Shonkwiler Alternating Current ($11.99) by David Nilsen Eric Shonkwiler’s debut collection Moon Up, Past Full takes up the harsh beauty of the midwest and the gentle misery of its rural working class in a series of stories exploring family, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and the mere struggle to survive. Occasionally these stories slip […]

FEATURE To Carry C. D. Wright’s Work Forward, Shining The loss of a great poet spurs this moving tribute to the necessary work that “puts the self in the now and on the page.” Essay by Jill Magi INTERVIEWS Turning Teaching into Writing: An Interview with Wendy Barker Poet and professor Wendy Barker discusses her […]

Christopher Atkins is a photographer, writer, and the Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul, Minnesota. He holds an MA and M.Res degree in visual cultures from Goldsmiths College at the University of London, and has taught museum studies and contemporary art at the Minneapolis College […]