Kamau: A tribute from St. Lucia
An introduction to a series of poems, essays and paintings in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
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Poet of the Month: Arup K Chatterjee
“My writing can only be in response to writing. Often I even suspect I am only rewriting what others have written before me.” Arup K Chatterjee, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Rosario Freire.
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Kissing Angles
Jacob Silkstone reviews Sarah Fletcher’s debut pamphlet.
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Whatever Happened to Verse Drama?
Richard O’Brien examines the history of the verse drama, and asks whether the decline of blank verse has to be inevitable…
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America the Brutalful
“America’s beautiful face is a conglomerate, a skin of managed myths. Peel it back and the beautiful is revealed as the brutal.” Kent Monroe looks at how racism is interconnected with what it means to be American.
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Remembering A Woman I Didn’t Know, Fighting A War I Don’t Believe In
In memory of Sabeen Mahmud.
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Consider the Ocean
“I am neither ship nor ocean/ I am the thing the ocean wrecks the ship into.” Weekend poem, by Ephraim Scott Sommers.
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Vivian Maier
“Vivian, maybe the secret was in your name,/a twisted code of semantics. Like the rest of us,/ you were the food you ate, the girl and the candy/ at the movies…” Poem of the Week (April 21), by Craig Martin Getz.
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Bruno Chooses Bisexual
“Bruno is lured by their stare into the struggle—/ their unwillingness to ignore…” Weekend poem, by Charles McGregor.
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Poet of the Month: Esther Phillips
“I love to work with language that forces me to choose the most powerful way to express what I feel in the fewest words…” Esther Phillips, our February Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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