Jolene Brink

Jolene Brink runs the 406 Writers’ Workshop in Missoula, Montana. Her first chapbook Peregrine (Redbird) received the 2015 Merriam-Frontier Award. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.

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The shape of the vigil

Recently in Jacket2

Near/Miss launches

Charles Bernstein

New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.

Razor feminine

A review of 'Small Siren'

Shamala Gallagher

Photo of Alexandra Mattraw (left) by Adam Thorman.

If Alexandra Mattraw’s first full-length collection Small Siren is a book of the feminine, we have been misunderstanding the feminine all along, misunderstanding its capacity and complexity. This is the feminine as slant of mind, position of articulation, embodied cerebral. In its linguistic inventions and its distinctive grammars, Small Siren rewrites the intimate registers in which mind encounters world.

Stuart Cooke

A poem with commentary from 'Lyre,' 2019

Jerome Rothenberg

Lyre is a collection of poems that attempts to translate more-than-human worlds into different kinds of poetry. As much as my encounter with each animal, plant, and landform produced differences of syntax and vocabulary across the poems, I also wanted to allow the subject to unsettle poetic form itself. In other words, it wasn’t enough just to describe the different worlds or unwelten of these different beings; as nonhuman lives were being translated into human poetry, human poetry also needed to undergo some kind of translation into something else.

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