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Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Following the Poet’s Path: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure

Rebecca Chace on Matsuo Bashō and the Life and Death of Her Mother, the Poet Jean Valentine

By Rebecca Chace | July 14, 2025

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

Astrid López Méndez on the Role of Verse and Resistance to Poetry

In Translation by Ellen Jones from the Latest Issue of the “New England Review”

By Astrid López Méndez | May 5, 2025

Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

Landscapes of Pain: On Exploring the Intersections of Physical and Historical Trauma in South Africa

Gabeba Baderoon Considers the Ways We Do and Do Not Confront Personal and Collective Violence

By Gabeba Baderoon | January 10, 2025

A Golden Land? Questioning Frontiers, Fantasies and Fulfillment in the Pacific Northwest

A Golden Land? Questioning Frontiers, Fantasies and Fulfillment in the Pacific Northwest

Rachel Greenley Considers Our Illusions of Progress and Productivity While Exploring the Ruins of the Umatilla Chemical Depot

By Rachel Greenley | October 28, 2024

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

Justin St. Germain Considers the Blurry Borders Between Memory, Memoir and Myth

By Justin St. Germain | July 15, 2024

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

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