We here at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review love poetry, whether it’s in chapbooks or full-length collections. We have a hunch that our readers do, too. Every Tuesday, we publish an update about what full-length poetry titles we know are releasing in the following week.
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Two Appearances After the Resurrection, Shane McCrae
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 3, 2025
Format: Paperback
This is a book about perceiving and being perceived. The various subjects of these poems are viewed by an artist, a devil, a soul floating out of a body it had inhabited, a god fed up with her husband’s infidelities, and a father whose young child has COVID-19. The poems of Two Appearances After the Resurrection are haunted by the question of what one ought to do with their perceivability.
After a decade of publishing poems almost exclusively utilizing no punctuation aside from the slash, Shane McCrae began including semi-regular punctuation in his 2023 book, The Many Hundreds of the Scent. He continues that project in Two Appearances After the Resurrection. Here, he further explores the consequences—especially the rhythmical consequences—of the change. Throughout these poems, McCrae perceives and implicitly considers his own shifting approaches to writing.
Shane McCrae is the author of poetry collections including New and Collected Hell and The Many Hundreds of the Scent and a memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun. McCrae has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
Coda, Steven Seidenberg
Publisher: Omnidawn
Publication Date: November 3, 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
The nameless narrator of Coda attempts to trace the origins of linguistic and perceptual differentiation by experimenting with contemporary lyric and narrative forms. Moving between extravagant prosody and obsessive disquisition, Seidenberg’s poetry works to reconfigure conceptual imperatives found throughout philosophy and theology. With a focus on the structure of memory and the decadence of the body, Seidenberg describes the epistemological regress of desire, intention, knowledge, and discernment.
Seidenberg brings together the language and concerns of figures including Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein, alongside elements of raucous humor drawn from the tradition of Rabelais, Beckett, Lispector, and Sterne.
Steven Seidenberg is a writer and artist based in San Francisco. He is the author of Anon, plain sight, Situ, Null Set, Itch, numerous chapbooks, and two collections of photographs: Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South and Pipevalve: Berlin.
No Depression in Heaven, ryan fitzpatrick
Publisher: Talonbooks
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
Written during country music’s most recent ascent in popularity, this poetry “LP” features ten “tracks” that each tip language out of key. Dwelling on whether it is best to look backward to a seemingly better past, longing for a way to make things great again, or to stare into the abyss of the future, gambling that entry into paradise will provide release, No Depression in Heaven resolutely riffs on our latter-day anxiety, asking how we respond to bad times and what it means to hold onto something toxic because of the comforts it affords.
ryan fitzpatrick is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Sunny Ways (Invisible, 2023) and Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks, 2021). Their creative nonfiction book Ace Theory, an essay-in-fragments about asexuality, will be published by Book*Hug in 2026. They are a former editor at filling Station magazine and helped organize the Flywheel reading series. They were the 2024–2025 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta. You can find them at ryanfitzpatrick.ca. They live in Calgary.
women and roosters, Fenn Stewart
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
Taking its title from Galen’s claim that “all creatures are sad after sex except women and roosters,” this semi-autobiographical long poem expertly winds its way through topics as far-reaching as climate change, nature, trail-running, settler nationalism, motherhood, love, loss, and illness.
In both form and content, the book revels in opposing forces. Cities, forests, and oceans are sites of both abundance and abandonment. Humans, birds, deer, crabs, plants, and trees thrive and multiply, but also get sick and die. Living things eat and are eaten, find joy and misery, run, fly, and swim—and meet natural and unnatural ends.
Written in a refreshingly conversational tone, while offering striking (and at times unsettling) imagery, women & roosters is a forthright and deeply emotional triumph that will linger with readers long after its final, vibrant page.
Fenn Stewart is the author of three chapbooks and the poetry collection, Better Nature, which was longlisted for the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. A former editor of The Capilano Review, she continues to serve on the magazine’s editorial board. Stewart holds a PhD in social and political thought, and teaches literature and writing at Capilano University. She lives with her kids in Vancouver, B.C., on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.
Reckless, Andrea MacPherson
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
In this powerful new poetry collection, Andrea MacPherson deftly explores— and skewers— the ways in which a woman’ s experience is invalidated by contemporary culture. Visceral, candid, and revelatory, Reckless follows the complex trajectory of female identity in a world that consistently denies women their right to assert it. Tackling an array of urgent topics, including reproductive rights, the trials of motherhood, the pain of divorce, and sexual emancipation, MacPherson details the realities women face throughout their lives and conjures both their fear and bravery in the face of relentless judgment. By urgently unpacking the impossible weight of gendered expectations, Reckless strips back limiting definitions consistently thrust upon women. Together, these poems become an unflinching portrait of “ what a girl means” and a striking commentary on what the female body wants and endures.
Andrea MacPherson is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. She has been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, longlisted for the ReLit Award, and selected for CBC Canada Reads: People’ s Choice. Andrea holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia, is the former editor of Prism International, and has taught creative writing and literature at a number of universities. She lives in Cloverdale, BC with her daughter.
self-driving, Betsy Fagin
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback / eBook
Rooted in the tradition of the on-the-road narrative, Fagin’s poems interrogate the foundations of freedom, representation, and privilege while dismantling romanticized myths of Western expansion and the cis, white, male-dominated tales of the open road. Through sharp, playful, and incisive verse, Fagin celebrates Black, queer, feminist presence and futures, confronting the erasures and delusions in America’s frequently told stories.
Using images of the great American West and the highways that connect it, she charts a path through landscapes of disenfranchisement toward self-determination and agency. Throughout the collection, self-driving redefines freedom as both a state and a mindset. In a bold declaration, Fagin writes: “I knew my rights / were all the rights, my freedoms all the freedoms,” embodying a call for expansive liberation. This collection is a powerful exploration of identity, impermanence, and the boundless possibilities of reimagined narratives.
Betsy Fagin is the author of self-driving (Autumn House Press), Fires Seen From Space (Winter Editions), All is Not Yet Lost (Belladonna), Names Disguised (Make Now Books), and a number of chapbooks. Her work has received support and awards from the American Library Association, Library Journal, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Provincetown Community Compact. Raised on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway people (Washington, DC), she currently lives in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY) and works as a librarian and a meditation teacher.
The Slaughterhouse of Dreams: Kasala for My Kaku (Bilingual edition), Fiston Mwanza Mujila, J. Bret Maney (Tr.)
Publisher: Phoneme Media
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
The Slaughterhouse of Dreams is rooted in a traditional Congolese form of praise poem that ties together proverbs, myths, fables, and riddles into a recitation, accompanied by music. In Mwanza Mujila’s skilled hands, this oral tradition becomes a new multimedia form, kasala, set to the page while retaining the remarkable drama, emotion, and celebration of its performed root. In The Slaughterhouse of Dreams, multiple lyrical traditions create a hybrid world of different global spaces and layers of time. Within this world, everything is possible, real and surreal at the same time. With the rhythmic, frenetic energy found in his poetry, prose, and performances, Fiston Mwanza Mujila reanimates and simultaneously deconstructs ideas of the (post)colonial environment.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1981 and lives today in Austria. His debut novel, Tram 83, won the German International Literature Award and was longlisted for the International Man Booker and the Prix du Monde. His second novel, The Villain’s Dance, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. In addition to The River in the Belly, he is the author of the poetry collections Craquelures (2011) and Soleil privé de mazout (2016), and three plays, Et les moustiques sont des fruits à pépins, Te voir dressé sur tes deux pattes ne fait que mettre de l’huile sur le feu (2015) and Zu der Zeit der Königinmutter (2018). His writing responds to political turbulence in his native country and frequently foregrounds its debt to jazz.
J. Bret Maney is a literary critic and translator from French and Spanish. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Gulf Coast Translation Prize for his translations of Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s poetry and an International Latino Book Award and PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s novel, Manhattan Tropics (Arte Público, 2019), which he also co-edited. He is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York.
Hail, Che!, Pak Jeong-de, Ed Bok Lee (Tr.), Eun-Mi Yang (Tr.)
Publisher: Black Ocean
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
Korean poet Pak Jeong-de envisioned Hail, Che! as a textual performance that sings and dreams of revolution. In these poems, he invokes the names of more than 200 artists— writers, musicians, filmmakers, and painters—whom he considers comrades capable of saving humanity. Throughout Hail, Che!, he pays exquisite attention to the sounds of life, attuned to the musicality of living and the unspoken poems that present themselves to those who exercise a poet’s attention.
Full of reverie and reflection, Hail, Che! celebrates the revolutionary humans who write poetry and perform, laboring in love.
Pak Jeong-de is the author of numerous notable works including Fragments, In the Gyeong-eyolbiyeol-do of My Youth, Snow Still Falls like Music, Amur Guitar, Chemical Origin of Love And Fever, Distance of All Possibility, Job That Is Called Life, From Her to Eternity, Slavic Love, Map of the French Orphan, Short Stories, Journey of Life, Comfort from Others, La Rue du Flocon de Neige, or The Art of the Snowflake, Words of a Barbarian Traveling Through the Snow, and more. Pak is the recipient of the Kim Dal-jin Literature Prize, Sowol Poetry Prize, and Daesan Literature Award. He is currently involved in the “Ezure Arcade Project” and is a member of the Sugarless Cigarette Club and the International Poetry Radical Barbarians’ Band.
Ed Bok Lee is the author of three books of poetry including Whorled and Mitochondrial Night, as well as numerous plays and short stories. He holds an MFA from Brown University and teaches poetics at Metropolitan State University in Minnesota.
Eun-Mi Yang has authored five books, including poetry collections and anthologies. She has also translated dozens of works, including The Two Koreas. Her translations have been featured in Asymptote, The Guardian, and more. A Best of the Net nominee, she studied creative writing at the University of Edinburgh where she won the Grierson Verse Prize. She teaches creative writing at Shilla University.
The Serious World, Laura Read
Publisher: BOA Editions
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
The Serious World is a collection of epistolary poems written to Sylvia Plath about depression, therapy, friendship, family, and the struggling life of an artist. With humor, sensitivity, and deep reflection, Laura Read explores many themes including mental health, suicide, loss, feminism, motherhood, and aging, offering a fresh view of the world as seen through the feminist poet’s searching spyglass.
Reaching back into history to talk with Plath and other historical figures who have suffered and wrote about their suffering, Read tries to make sense of what it’s like to be alive and suffering now. These deeply felt poems include language from Plath’s The Bell Jar and poems about Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir. Other strange bedfellows from pop culture also make appearances, among them Kenny Rogers, Dr. Seuss, Kurt Cobain, and Courtney Love.
Laura Read is the author of The Serious World (BOA, 2025), But She Is Also Jane (winner of the Juniper Prize), Dresses from the Old Country, and Instructions for my Mother’s Funeral (winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize). She served as poet laureate for the city of Spokane. She lives in Spokane, WA.
The Hungriest Stars, Carey Salerno
Publisher: Persea
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno’s third book is a poet’s elegy to her uterus, her love letter penned in an overcrowded room to autonomy and desire. Having been debilitated and rendered infertile by endometriosis, endured rounds of infertility treatments that landed her in miscarriage and selective reduction treatments, and suffered a cancer scare that left her body incapable of conceiving, Carey Salerno responds with these maximalist poems. Through them, she dives headfirst into the world with an intense hunger to live to the fullest, to release the shame the she has amassed about her own body and its refusals to function, reflecting on and redefining what it means to be a woman when so much is taken from her.
Carey Salerno is the author of three books of poetry, The Hungriest Stars, Tributary, and Shelter. Her poems have appeared widely in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She is the Executive Director and Publisher of Alice James Books.
Ajar, Margo LaPierre
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
The poems in Ajar navigate the physical and psychological dangers of womanhood through the flattening lens of mood disorder. Psychosis isn’t the opposite of reality—it’s another perceptual system. If neurotypical thought measures the world in centimetres, this collection measures it in inches, gallons, amperes. Ajar celebrates radical recovery from gendered violence and psychotic paradigm shifts, approaching madness through prismatic inquiry. As time converges within us, we find new ways to heal and grow. From the emergency room to the pharmacy to the fertility clinic to the dis/comfort of home and memory, this collection humanizes bipolar psychosis.
These poems depict suicidality and some of the violences that worsen the risk. In Canada, the suicide crisis helpline is 988 and it’s available 24/7.
Margo LaPierre is a neuroqueer poet and freelance editor specializing in literary novels, historical novels, and memoirs. She is Arc Poetry’s newsletter editor and a member of the poetry collective VII. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award. She is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Love, Max Layton
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
Since the author’s last book of poems was entitled Like, it seems only fitting that this new collection of fifty poems should be called Love. But, more importantly, these are the poems of an old man looking back at the people he has known and the life he has led whose memory, no matter how painful, he still cherishes. From childhood to adulthood to a suite of poems contemplating the author’s inevitable death, Love can be summed up as a meditation on mortality and the transitory nature of everything we think we have accomplished – including, ironically, this book.
Born in Montreal in 1946, Max Layton is the eldest son of painter Betty Sutherland (aka Boschka) and poet Irving Layton. He earned an MA in Eng. Lit. from the University of Toronto and then worked as a high school English teacher until retirement. A published novelist and short story writer, Max went legally blind more than a decade ago and during that difficult period recorded his first CD, Heartbeat Of Time. His eyesight eventually restored thanks to the miracle of modern science, Max felt he had been given a second chance. That is why the intervening years have seen the release of three more CDs of Max’s original songs, while Guernica Editions has since published three books of Max’s poems, When The Rapture Comes, (2012), In The Garden Of I Am, (2015), and Like (2018).
A Door, a Window, Burt Kimmelman
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
Burt Kimmelman’ s readership is one that is made of poets and others who read poetry carefully. They’ re drawn to his poems’ precision, understatement, and vivid realizations of places (e.g., in a city) and in nature.
Born and raised in New York City after World War Two, Burt Kimmelman has published eleven collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and was featured on The Writer’s Almanac radio program.
Or Current Resident, Thomas Fink
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “Yinglish Strophes,” “ Goad,” and “Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “Mission Statement” and “Terse Rhymes.”
Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of criticism, and a literature anthology, and he has co-edited two critical anthologies. He was featured in the 2007 edition of Scribner’ s The Best American Poetry. Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York— LaGuardia.
Mother, Daughter, Augur, Mary Simmons
Publisher: June Road Press
Publication Date: October 28, 2025
Format: Paperback
Mary Simmons’s debut is a world unto itself: a dark storybook realm, lush and full of eerie possibility, a place outside of time where women move in different forms and pass on warnings and wisdom. In the spirit of a Victorian naturalist’s collection, this book brings together found elements from nature, folklore, mythology, ballet, and oral tradition, crafting a strange, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definitions of femininity. As these poems blur dichotomies—maiden and witch, mother and daughter, friend and lover—they reach for a new vision of womanhood beyond the bounds of roles and expectations, one that is mystical, ethereal, a little dangerous, and inherently queer. In the process, they tap into deep currents of yearning, grapple with corporeality, raise larger questions about love and what lasts, and find meaning in the uncanny and the macabre. In these pages are insects and omens, wolves and birds and weird apparitions, Odile and Ophelia, even a seventeenth-century professional poisoner. Original, atmospheric, and immersive, this is a work like no other: a tour through an enchanted forest, a darkness that’s illuminating.
Mary Simmons is a queer poet from Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she also served as the managing editor for Mid-American Review. Her work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, ONE ART, trampset, Moon City Review, Variant Lit, The Shore, and elsewhere. She lives with her cat, Suki, at the edge of the woods.
Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars, Jonathan González
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
Moving between archival fragments, rehearsal notes, and speculative memory, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars traces the embodied frequencies and assembled states of Black life. González theorizes Blackness as a grammar, occupying the interstices of white colonial culture; Black movement and expression are both defined by and break down the hegemonic. Through a consideration of land, politics, magic, and movement, this hybrid work performs the perpetually unfinished task of resistance.
Jonathan González is an artist and scholar whose work engages research at the intersections of racialization, black geographies, creative practice and African diasporic literacies. These practices take on the form of prose, the choreographic, video art, sound, lecture and curation to engender interdisciplinary engagement towards otherwise modalities of collaboration, representation and study. González’s writings have been published by ASAP/J Journal, EAR | WAVE | EVENT, Regiones: CENTRAL, Movement Research Journal, Contemporary And, Contact Quarterly, Cultured Magazine, deem journal, and Angela’s Pulse. González has received fellowships from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Art Matters Foundation, Wave Farm and the Jerome Foundation. González has been an artist in residence with numerous organizations including Center for Afrofuturist Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Loghaven Artist Residency.
The Disinherited, Terrence Arjoon
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
In this debut collection by Terrence Arjoon, various characters people the text, from historical personages to actors in hastily paper-mache’d masks, each peeking onto stage from the wings. Composed of partial translations from Gérard de Nerval, pastoral pastiches, slant rhymes, off-sonnets, and malapropisms, The Disinherited inhabits a world spanning the olive groves of old Europe to spills of ink in the renegade printing studios of New York, as Arjoon and his merry wanderers take a meandering stroll through diaspora and exile, the Romantic and surreal, reaching towards something richer, denser, and stranger.
Terrence Arjoon is a poet, critic, and bookseller. He is the author of the chapbooks 36 Dreams and Acid Splash, or into Blue Caves, published with 1080PRESS. He is a managing editor at 1080PRESS. His work has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tagvverk, Smooth Friend, Works & Days, Screen Slate, among other publications. He was the 2022 recipient of the Amiri Baraka Scholarship at the Naropa Summer Writing Program.
Shiny City, Ching-In Chen
Publisher: Airlie Press
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
Ching-In Chen’s Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future. Word by word, syntax by syntax, Chen projects the essential and unrecorded voices of the Chinese immigrants who picked and packed fruit in Riverside’s citrus groves and worked as house servants in the late 1800’s through the 1930’s, as well as the travelers and inhabitants of “shiny city” as they navigate its accelerated process of growth and decay. Both experimental and narrative, these poems juxtapose found texts with a singular kind of imagining: through a wild love, and despite an incomplete and fragmented archive, Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry), The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems; and Shiny City as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities.
The End of Welome. Nicole Alston Zdeb
Publisher: Airlie Press
Publication Date: November 1, 2025
Format: Paperback
The End of Welcome sinks a blade into the loam and crust of human experience to unearth fresh layers of feeling and meaning. With wit and wordplay that both suture and transcend time, these singularly voiced poems travel underground and underwater through intimate landscapes to mysteriously surface in the universal. By turns comic, absurdist, and poignant, this collection holds themes of grief, resilience, and joy as a shell held to the ear holds the sonic image of the sea, as the heart holds the fallout of a suicide, and the body holds defiant against and bends to the machinations of progress.
Nicole Alston Zdeb is a writer based in Portland, Oregon. She holds a MFA from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Bedouin Press published her chapbook, The Friction of Distance. Recently, she’s had poems, photographs, and short stories accepted by Driftwood Press, Lana Turner, SWWIM, and other journals.
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Contents
Chapbook Poem: When I Was Straight by Dustin Brookshire
“‘When I Was Straight’ prompted me to think about a common queer experience—how most parents assume their children are ‘straight’ and expect their children to live a ‘straight’ life.” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for October 2025 along with words from the poet.
Book Excerpt: American Girl: Fort Hood, 2023 by Thea Matthews
“[W]eaving in and juxtaposing the lyrics of Tom Petty’s ‘American Girl.’ The song’s themes of desperation, wanderlust, and longing are subverted by Ana’s life and tragedy at Fort Cavazos, previously known as Fort Hood, Texas.” Read the featured Excerpt Poem for October 2025 along with words from the poet.
“It seems such a shame that a beautiful location is just gathering dust and overgrowth, and I wanted to lean into the juxtaposition of that.” Read three poems by Bryana Fern along with a few words about “Women on the Wall.”
Bodies in Transition: Sacred & Perishable by Carissa Natalia Baconguis
“There is a muscular intimacy to the ecosystem of these poems, each one of them creating as vivid a world individually as exists in the collection as a whole.” Read Gray Davidson Carroll’s full review.
“In ‘No Breaks’ I was writing about something I hope I never have to experience. … I tried to keep despair at bay and show some defiance and resilience.” Read two poems by Gerald Yelle along with a few words about “No Breaks.”
November ’25: New Staff, Issue Archive & Donations
Read a note from Editor Aiden Hunt about our new Poetry Readers, the additions of an Issue Archive and a Contributor Fund, Fall poetry submissions, and Gaza.
Chapbook Poem: Two egrets at the edge of a tidal marsh by Rebekah Wolman
“Settling on the mirror form opened the way into the parallels between the original image of the egrets, their reflection, and their ambiguous relationship and the shifting, even reversing, roles of an adult daughter and her aging mother…” Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for November 2025 along with words from the poet.
Three Poems by Alexandra Burack
“Subsequent drafts enabled me to … uncover the metaphor of exile, whose meanings are intended to move readers from an experience of alienation to one of discernment of the liberating qualities of outsiderhood.” Read three poems by Alexandra Burack, along with a few words about “To Know Blue From the Color of Snow at Dusk.”