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A Conversation with Carl Phillips

In the Blood, Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips’s debut collection, was rereleased last month, over three decades after its original publication. The book signaled the arrival of a singular, new voice, introducing…

A Review of Jaia Hamid Bashir’s The Afterlife of Sweetness

Laura Gilpin’s “The Two-headed Calf” has perhaps gone more viral than any other poem on the internet. If younger, tumblr-era millennials were the original superspreaders, posting a now Reddit-famous webcomic of the…

On Shame and Rejection

When Nate Marshall called to tell me I’d won the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, I lost it. Jumped for joy. Wept. Could not—in any way—keep it together. What I’d longed…