The Monstrosity of Sor Juana

Two new translations resurrect Mexico’s most enigmatic and paradoxical Baroque poet.

The Flame in the Grate

Uche Nduka's Surrealism 

Poet’s Sampler: Monica Mody

Slumming

Daniel Tiffany’s "Infidel Poetics"

Fighting Words

Lyn Hejinian's Saga/Circus

Seeing Voices

On Hannah Weiner’s Open House.

Bewitched

Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia.

The Light in the Heart

Decreation by Anne Carson.

Still Life w/ Influences

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