Interview with Poet Kimiko Hahn, By Taylor Caron (2017) LRR, June 18, 2017March 5, 2024 Kimiko Hahn is a nationally recognized and accoladed poet with 10 diverse collections of poetry to her name. These include Volatile, The Artist’s Daughter, The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems, and the recent Brain Fever. One can track the trajectory of her career by observing the variety of poses… Continue Reading
“The things that hold you back can often help you”: An Interview with Poet Allison Joseph, By Taylor Caron (2017) LRR, June 17, 2017March 5, 2024 It’s been said that expectations are best kept low when meeting a brilliant writer. This advice makes sense when one considers that a writer is presenting their best, most polished self on the page. The real thing should inevitably yield disappointing. I feel privileged in being able to verify that… Continue Reading
“Fears After the Indonesian Forest Fires” By Anna Ziering (2017) LRR, June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Winner (2017) Death, of course. Having no God. Sunday afternoons, New England falls. Sleet storms like the one that dented the new car and traumatized the dog, who never liked loud noise; who, like me when I was young, couldn’t stomach fireworks. They made us cry—that… Continue Reading
“New Year on Pleasure Island” By Brian Sneeden (2017) LRR, June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Second Place (2017) What I did not know to make made itself in vestigial hours between two o’clock and dawn, when the shapes of birds stitch together in my mind, and a single cicada peels the air. Each letter I write returns to water. I start… Continue Reading
PATERSON: The Blue-Collar Poet and Writing with a ‘Day Job’ By: Nicholas DiBenedetto LRR, April 5, 2017February 8, 2025 Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is Paterson in ways that I never realized something could be Paterson. The film’s star, Adam Driver, plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson, who lives in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, and whose favorite poet is William Carlos Williams (whose epic poem Paterson, is… Continue Reading
C. Buddingh’ – “The Hyena” – Translated from the Dutch By Matthew Ryan Shelton (2016) LRR, June 17, 2016June 17, 2017 Empirical Science has often shown a reputation up: the old Egyptians held him in high esteem, and Pliny held that the stone he carried in his eye, the hyena, laid under the tongue, would grant him sight, into the future. Alas, all he carries in his eye is a cockeyed… Continue Reading
If my life is ever biography-worthy… LRR, February 1, 2015February 8, 2025 Who would I like to write about my…. Feeling alive? Ray Bradbury. “The grass whispered under his body. He put his arm down, feeling the sheath of fuzz on it, and, far away, below, his toes creaking in his shoes. The wind sighed over his shelled ears. The… Continue Reading
“Artifacts of Our Affection” By Amber West (2014) LRR, June 16, 2014June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Second Place (2014) When I notice mold in my toothbrush mug I remember the pigeons roosting in the airshaft: their toilet, their nest, our bedroom view dusk and dawn Monogamous, amorous, pigeons are known for their soft cooing calls Once I had three mugs. Gold-trimmed. Blond… Continue Reading
“The Wall” By Miller Oberman (2014) LRR, June 16, 2014June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest, Winner (2014) Once, drunk, and having just avoided a fight, the two walked outside from the dark dive smelling thrillingly of sour beer and sweat and clapping the blue pool chalk from their hands, they, coming to a boarded up construction site, made fists, their hair… Continue Reading
Poets and Editors LRR, May 4, 2013February 8, 2025 Recently, I joined some of the other editors for a radio show to promote the release of our latest issue. We floated as an idea for the show the theme “Poets and Editors,” and while we instead spent a lot of time talking about the poems in our latest issue… Continue Reading