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   America, A Love Story By Camille Dungy Wesleyan University Press | 2026 | 104 pages    hat happens when a place you love threatens to kill you and those you love most in the world? Camille Dungy’s America, A Love Story attempts to answer that question in this deeply personal and political new poetry collection.  In the introduction of Against Forge...

Ode to Cicadas Lou soulèu me fai canta. The sun makes me sing.   – Frédéric Mistral     Maracas of trees, teeming rhythm of my days— males singing to lure a mate when it’s hot enough they vibrate their tymbal—ribbed membrane over each side of their hollow abdomen— so it carries up to me here in Cassis which is itself a song. Some believed God sent cicadas to pe...

Myth—or the impossible as I like to think of it—proved to be a useful lens to shoot those stories with.   Introduction met Austin Araujo during our time attending the MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University. He was entering his first year when I was entering my second, and we talked at a coffee shop where we shared our passions of basketball, poets, and love. Over ...

Refuge January 1, 2017    The heron unzips itself from sky and the sky falls, grey tatter scattering a dozen bathing pintails where the estuary curves, their wings making it clap. Surprise can be deadly but the heron’s got bigger fish: leg snapped to chest, it lampshades the hungry hours while gangs of coots bumble along the frost-fretted boardwalk, cartoon-harmonic...

Scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctic are documenting some of the most rapid environmental changes on Earth. Through ice cores, ocean measurements, satellite imagery and ecological observation, they help us understand how polar regions are changing and why those changes matter.  Poets work differently.  Through image, rhythm, metaphor, story and attention, ...