NEW FEATURE (5/24):

An Interview
with Meg Day

BY OLIVER BENDORF

Meg Day is a 2013 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, three-time Pushcart-nominated poet, nationally awarded spoken word artist, and veteran arts educator who is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry and Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. Meg hails from Oakland, where she taught young poets to hold their own at the mic with YouthSpeaks and as a WritersCorps Teaching Artist in San Francisco. A 2010 Lambda Fellow, 2011 Hedgebrook Fellow, and 2012 Squaw Valley Fellow, Meg completed her MFA at Mills College and publishes the femme ally zine ON OUR KNEES out of Salt Lake City. A 2012 AWP Intro Award Winner, Meg’s most recent work can be found in or is forthcoming from RATTLE, Southern Humanities Review, Fugue, Troubling the Line: An Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, Flicker and Spark: An International Queer Poetry Anthology, This Assignment is So Gay: Poems from LGBTQ Teachers, The Atlas Review and in the chapbook When All You Have is a Hammer, planned for publication in 2013 by Gertrude Press. Her website is megday.com. {MORE}

NEW REVIEW (5/3):

Paisley Rekdal,
Animal Eye

BY NANCY REDDY

The poems in Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye grip first with their keen attention to detail, as in the opening to the beautiful “Body of Stuffed Female Swift Fox, Natural History Museum”: “Nothing ever was this slinking, vicious, / glass eye embedded in its slitted red, skin / husked and sealed forever in a vacuum.” Though nearly all the poems here take animals of one sort or another as their ostensible subject—a childhood horse, a nightingale, salmon swimming upstream to spawn—they are also haunted by desire and loss, environmental disaster, family history, and the difficult legacy of American race relations. {MORE}

 

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