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Dan Beachy-Quick on the ethical work of the poem, language as inherited crisis, the expression of silence, and refiguring desire.

Mark Slouka on genre and the role of the essay, the rise of the MFA, the 2016 American presidential election season, and on what it means to write the essential.

“How people feel, what they feel, what breaks them, how trauma resonates through their lives . . . that’s a legitimate space in poetry.”…

Jeffrey Condran is the author of the story collection A Fingerprint Repeated. His debut novel, Prague Summer, was published by Counterpoint in August 2014 and…

When she drives through in her carriage, when she makes her daily tour, she sees their faces peering out from cottage doors. She is…