POETRY // THE COLORLESS WHITE LIGHT OF INFINITE EXISTENCE

Art & Ideas, PoetryHeather BlakesleeJanuary 24, 20234.3, Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Iron Friend

3.2Heather BlakesleeOctober 25, 2021Joshua Mehigan, excerpt

POETRY // This Strange Order

by Joshua Mehigan • “Christag” illustration by Christopher Clark Spencer

Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan explores two versions of nature, and our own nature, in poems by William Cowper and Mary Meriam.

POETRY // The Happy Uncertain Worried Feeling

On Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh and Shane McCrae

by Joshua Mehigan

Poetry, 2.4Heather BlakesleeApril 1, 2021Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Accepting the Disaster

by Joshua Mehigan

2.3, PoetryHeather BlakesleeDecember 21, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Irresponsible and Damned: On poems by Lord Byron and Edgar Bowers

Poetry, 2.3Heather BlakesleeDecember 21, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Liberty in a Folding Chair: On ‘The New Colossus,’ by Emma Lazarus, and ‘After a Greek Proverb,’ by A.E. Stallings

Poetry, 2.2Heather BlakesleeSeptember 30, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Framing the Disaster: Thomas Hardy & Stephen Edgar

by Joshua Mehigan

Poetry editor Joshua Mehigan on Thomas Hardy and Stephen Edgar.

2.1Heather BlakesleeJuly 9, 2020Joshua Mehigan, Excerpt

POETRY // Katharine Hollander's 'Der Tod'

Words by Joshua Mehigan // Artwork by Kate Glasheen

Katherine Hollander’s “Der Tod” is a deceptively simple poem about how death woos us and lulls us. Enjoy the Close Read by poetry editor Joshua Mehigan.

1.2Heather BlakesleeJuly 9, 2019Joshua Mehigan, Kate Glasheen, Katherine Hollander, Excerpt