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crafting the historical poem

I knew, with absolute certainty, that what I had experienced there was something I would never experience again.

He saw poetry as an ongoing shamanic journey, a ritual system unfolding across continents and time. 

The Eternal Dice shows César Vallejo breaking with the Latin American modernist tradition in poems that mix satire, socialist ideals, and formal experimentation.

One Book One New Orleans increases access to books and improves literacy skills through strategic outreach to adults with low literacy, adults and youth who are incarcerated, and those with visual impairment.

Finding a way to stretch language to fit you and your stray prepositions.

Our language reminds us of the legacy that connects us to the past and instills that legacy in this present time. 

It isn’t the final product of a poem I’m interested in, but the way poetry can bring community together.

The gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.

When I write in Diné bizaad the sounds come from the center of what it means to be Diné. Diné bizaad bee yashti. Diné bizaad bee hadínisht’é.

In thinking about saad, I am called back to the mesa.

We must accept a holiness in the language of space and silence.

As Indigenous writers, we are here against all odds.

The writing in this issue manifests how we are gathering our sounds and patchworking the remnants.

A poet who held imagination as his one most crucial tool in the search for a glimpse of glamourie.

On Play and the Creative Impulse

Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.

Words Without Borders cultivates global awareness by expanding access to international writing and creating a bridge between readers, writers, and translators. 

Voters cast their ballots in Chicago Reader’s "Best of Chicago" 2024 poetry categories