We are born of parents and the times, and we live lives of freedom and preordained constraint (arguably). Thou shall not make excuses. Born the daughter of African and Caribbean... Read More

Brian Turner’s inventory of a year in Iraq includes: desert boots, body armor, “nights spent staring for heat signatures through the white-hot lens.” Also: dead infants,... Read More

Lia Purpura is an essayist and a poet, who, in either genre, absorbs her subjects with an intensity that ends up mapping the consciousness as closely as it maps the exterior... Read More

Disentangling the complicated intersections of faith and American identity drive the progression of the twenty-three poems that make up "Beloved Idea". The 2003 winner of the... Read More

In the tradition of Louise Gluck’s lyric narratives and religious and near-religious imagery, these poems are stark, lean, and fresh. In them, the poet considers longing and... Read More

In a 1998 article in UNLV Magazine, the author claimed, “This is unusual, I know, but I never revise. If I write a poem and it’s not there, I don’t go back and try to... Read More