The poetry world is rather upset this week about the “pirated poetry anthology” Issue 1, published as a .pdf (3,785 pages) by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter.
A Kristen Taylor is included, and her poem on page 104 is titled “Coats made without courage”.
I find the project amusing and imagine the editors rounded out the [...]

As we wait out a tropical storm in Miami, I am thinking of a sky loom rather than the looming sky, inspired by this part of Anthony Doerr’s breathtaking, brief piece in this summer’s Granta:
Salmon, wildebeest, locusts. Storks, swifts, snow geese. What if the torrents of animals migrating past us every year left behind traces [...]

The plants were shaking off the dew this morning beaded on their ribs;

I wiped the sleep out of my eyes, blinked until the bright spots focused

into lace–the moisture highlighting the web’s edgework.

And straight above me, I watched a snail wend its way on a path edged in light.
With similar determination, here we [...]