“If inspiration strikes the poet like lightning strikes a stone, rhapsodes are the rings that get magnetized by that stone, that can magnetize us with a force we cannot see.”
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A treasury of Pittsburgh Italian American poets for Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month.
“Wonder into Another Shape of Wonder” and “Self-Made Phantom.”
The editors, writers, and readers of Pittsburgh’s only national, independent literary publisher in their own words.
“How Much Sun,” “Saturday Morning,” “American Future,” “A Cigarette Butt on a Landing,” and “Air Waves.”
“Mourning the Death of a Child in Gaza” and “Negative Dialectics.”
A poem by Kathy Fagan.
Poet Robert Cording in conversation with Michael Simms
“I am thinking about people and birds and words and books and magic.”
“He moves away from resolution and toward ambiguity. Now he wants to write ‘poems no one ever finishes.’”
