John Hospodka gives the brief against the MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry.

Danny Rosen sights the wild totems of our own alien world by the orange light of the moon.

Austin Allen responds to Adam Kirsch’s article on rap in the February 2011 issue of Poetry magazine.

Majid Naficy ponders the forced family schisms among migrant workers.

“If there’s language / anymore it’s a strange / calligraphy of bare / trees.”

Can you tell me something extraordinary?

I made it with a dolphin yesterday.

How was it.

Awesome!

What kind of rock is that on the counter?

It’s a rock, or really more like a chunk of steel, that fell from outer space. I metal-detected it, while wearing a white jump suit on a Full Moon night – so the local carabinieri would not see me — on the slope of Meteor Crater, south of that corner in Winslow, Arizona. Actually, I bought the meteorite, but I like the story I heard from the thief who sold it. Sometimes I sleep with it.

How does your background in geology and astronomy impact your writing?

It permeates my work, seeps into everything, my lyrics and my prose poems that more directly ponder big space and deep time. It also permeates my being. Light years make sense to me. I helplessly see myself and the world of “now” in a very big context.

“Family Feelings” is a collaborative blend of poetry and play reading that combines the work of
poet John Foy (and others) and playwright A. R. Gurney.

John Foy strips the niceties from his word to the bereaved.

Walter Ancarrow conducts those Outer Twilight Limits strains through the spaces in cheese.