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04/06/2026

⭕ Karisma Price’s poems featured in this collection sing homage to Louisiana, pre- and post-hurricane Katrina, as her speaker defends Brother John’s depiction of a Black Jesus next to her little cousin’s desire to be God without being dead. The poems that follow, “The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison” and “My Phone Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to Night’” underscore the impact that the prison industrial complex and artificial intelligence bias continue to inflict harm upon the speakers’ communities. In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation and three poems by Karisma Price.

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A native New Orleanian, Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. A poet and screenwriter, she is the author of I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick. Her work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, and elsewhere. Her honors include a 2026 Writing Freedom Fellowship from Haymarket Books and The Mellon Foundation, a 2025 Whiting Award in Poetry, a Cave Canem Fellowship, and the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University.

⭕ “Poetry can do many things, but one of the main things it does is to put us in touch with our inner lives. It helps us...
21/05/2026

⭕ “Poetry can do many things, but one of the main things it does is to put us in touch with our inner lives. It helps us to name and clarify experience. It helps us to understand ourselves, our consciousness,” says the Chicago-raised poet Edward Hirsch, who considers the question of what is American poetry through his lived experiences overseas. In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation and three poems by Edward Hirsch. Together, they consider the history of migration and immigration that makes America possible.

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⭕ “I was seven years old when I heard a woman scream as she was shot in No-Man’s Land, trying to escape to the West,” re...
19/05/2026

⭕ “I was seven years old when I heard a woman scream as she was shot in No-Man’s Land, trying to escape to the West,” recalls Christiane Zschommler, now in her 60s, of how life was growing up in the eastern end of a war-torn Germany. In this essay, Vuslat D. Katsanis writes on the history and experiences that inform Zschommler’s photography.

Christiane Zschommler is an artist whose work interrogates memory, surveillance, and the intersection of personal and collective history. Zschommler’s work has been exhibited internationally from London to St. Petersburg. She was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize and the 2015 Surrey Artist of the Year. Raised in East Berlin and now based in the UK, her work explores memory, duration, and the subtle aftereffects of political and social systems.

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⭕ “We all have moons / we long to return to,” writes Ariel Francisco, staying attuned to the singing of young men along ...
14/05/2026

⭕ “We all have moons / we long to return to,” writes Ariel Francisco, staying attuned to the singing of young men along the East River and the Bronx or the radio waves of his grandmother reciting poetry. These poems share valences with the Dominican poet that Francisco translated, Jacques Viau Renaud, who writes about his homeland, with its legacies of imperialism and colonization. In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation and three poems by Ariel Francisco, alongside his translations of Jacques Viau Renaud.

Ariel Francisco is the author of the forthcoming We All Have Moons We Long to Return to (Texas Review Press 2028), All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press 2024), Under Capitalism if Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press 2022), A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press 2020), All My Heroes are Broke (C&R Press 2017), and eight books of translations from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Haiti. His work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, the New York City Ballet, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.

Jacques Viau Renaud (1941—1965) was born in Haiti and raised in the Dominican Republic following his father's exile in 1948. During the Dominican Revolution of 1965, he joined the rebel forces in support of ousted president Juan Bosch, fighting against the US backed dictatorship. He was killed in battle at age 23. Poesia Completa was published by Editorial Cielonaranja in the Dominican Republic in 2005 and Selections From Permanence of the Cry and Other Poems (CUNY Lost & Found) and Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books), his first English translations, were published in 2024.

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⭕ Naoko Fujimoto’s work is shaped by the experience of writing across languages and follows the footsteps of Japanese po...
07/05/2026

⭕ Naoko Fujimoto’s work is shaped by the experience of writing across languages and follows the footsteps of Japanese poetry forms (such as the zuihitsu or haibun) and visual forms (such as the manga or emaki). In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation and a poem by Naoko Fujimoto. Following the tradition of the Haibun, the piece is untitled.

Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and received a BA and MA from Indiana University. She is the author of the poetry collections We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, Where I Was Born, and Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory, as well as four chapbooks. She is associate and translation editor of RHINO and translation editor of Tupelo Quarterly. She organizes an online community at Working On Gallery and is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation.

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⭕ For Sean Singer, a poem is like a “handshake”—a living, breathing, intimate exchange between the writer and the reader...
30/04/2026

⭕ For Sean Singer, a poem is like a “handshake”—a living, breathing, intimate exchange between the writer and the reader. “To merely survive as a poet in society is a political statement. The poet’s job is to describe the invisible ligatures and bonds among heretofore disconnected things. The poet’s job isn’t judgment, but a passionate balance of critique and celebration,” says Singer. In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation and two poems by Sean Singer.

Sean Singer is the author, most recently, of Today in the Taxi (Tupelo Press, 2022), winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry. His earlier collections are Honey & Smoke (Eyewear Publishing, 2015, finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series), and Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Sean holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark, and has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He shares poetry curations and essays on craft at his Substack, The Sharpener.

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⭕ We are thrilled to announce a new essay! In "Erdsicht–Global Change: A Vantage Point Not So Remote From Politics," art...
27/04/2026

⭕ We are thrilled to announce a new essay! In "Erdsicht–Global Change: A Vantage Point Not So Remote From Politics," art historian Lola Lorant takes us back to 1992 to deconstruct one of Germany's most pivotal exhibitions.

The Erdsicht–Global Change exhibition arrived just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and amidst a rising consciousness of ecological crisis. While it promised a unified, "global" view of our planet, Lorant argues that the perspective offered was anything but neutral. Despite the "end of history" rhetoric of the 1990s, the way the Earth was visualized masked deeply rooted political agendas under aesthetic objectivity, and in doing so, expanded upon Cold War military research on the biosphere.

Lola Lorant holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History and teaches at Université Rennes 2. Her research centers on the U.S. art scene from the mid‑20th century onward. Building on a dissertation examining transatlantic artistic exchanges by Nouveau Réalisme artists during the Cold War, her current work investigates how artistic production and its accompanying discourse intersect with cultural stereotypes, international politics, and environmental thought. Her recent publications appear in the Journal of Global Pop Culture and Théia.

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⭕ For Adrian Matejka, “Poetry continues to be a conduit or voice for young people who feel unseen or unheard. It’s one o...
23/04/2026

⭕ For Adrian Matejka, “Poetry continues to be a conduit or voice for young people who feel unseen or unheard. It’s one of the rare arts that empowers even as it catalogues and testifies.” In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy present a conversation with Adrian Matejka on what he describes as “sonic truth-telling” from William Blake to Chuck D, followed by three of his featured poems.

Adrian Matejka is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. His third collection, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Big Smoke was also a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His following collection, Map to the Stars, was published by Penguin in 2017. His most recent collection of poems, Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), was a finalist for the UNT 2022 Rilke Prize and the 2022 Indiana Authors Award. His first graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century was published in February 2023 by Liveright. He currently lives in Chicago and is Editor of Poetry magazine.

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⭕ “A writer’s voice is shaped by their unique history, often beginning long before they ever pick up a pen. We are parti...
16/04/2026

⭕ “A writer’s voice is shaped by their unique history, often beginning long before they ever pick up a pen. We are particularly struck by Cynthia Cruz’s reflection that in her early childhood, she did not speak, prompting us to consider the origins of her relationship with language and her path to becoming a poet.” In this installment of The American Wing, Carlie Hoffman and Tiffany Troy ask about the influence of voice and language. Read their full conversation and three featured poems by Cruz.

Cynthia Cruz is the author of eight collections of poems, two collections of critical essays and one novella. Two new collections of poems are forthcoming: Sweet Repetition in 2025 from the University of Chicago Press and Twilight with Four Way Books in 2026. Cruz is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her recent collection of poems, Hotel Oblivion, was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Cruz earned a BA in English Literature at Mills College, an MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts, an MA in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and a PhD at the European Graduate School, where her research focused on Hegel and madness.

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⭕ “Industrial Evolution” by Zoe Grace Marquedant traces the shifts from industry and resource depletion to the “new natu...
13/04/2026

⭕ “Industrial Evolution” by Zoe Grace Marquedant traces the shifts from industry and resource depletion to the “new nature” that takes root in “spaces of mitigation” despite the odds. Through a series of sharp, evocative vignettes, Marquedant meditates on the grime and the grit, in anticipation of the life forces that refuse to give up.

“Reclamation becomes, in a way, about philosophy. Whether the existing ‘nature’ of a space can be superseded by its next iteration. By the ability not to forget, but to build again. A giant chess game crafted from street cones and buckets. Palates cut and shaped into tables. Lights. Courts. Sandpits. So long as the memory is held somewhere. Archived not just in the minds. A nod to the previous. Accessible to both historians and kids. Something to say, this existed.”

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Zoe Grace Marquedant is a q***r, Asian-American writer. She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her work has been featured in Butter Magazine, In the Mood, 13tracks, and elsewhere. She is a columnist for Talk Vomit, and the 2025-26 artist-in-residence at the Villa Sarkia residency and the Art House RaumArs residency in Finland.

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