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… Dreams of Poetry Istockphoto.com/Skrohn27   My initiation into contemporary poetry began … to transport us to worlds we never knew existed while also forcing us to look at our familiar surroundings anew, … scruffy underdog—the poem that, for all its accomplishment, points toward still bigger things. Considering all this …

… on MFA programs’ devastating effect on literary journals and fiction : By the early ’70s—and with the development … school seemed to have its own quarterly. Before long, the combined forces of identity politics and cheap desktop … The argument is already on over at the Mother Jones website. Feel free to comment there or share your …

… in their lives. They seek it out through awkward homecomings, infidelity, extravagant gestures of one kind or another that trigger curious turning points. A family reunites in tense celebration. A couple … as the years pass. Children betray and disappoint. Parents die. In these stories, an absence—of kinship, paternal love, …

… the kind of striking, expansive photography that has come to define this magazine for the better part of two … who have spent the past year exploring East-West “collision points” in the context of Russia’s recent aggression. They … the ravages of plastic in the Earth’s waters. This issue also includes Sofi Thanhauser’s essay on how the “war on …

… of VQR on “The Female Conscience” —a term broad enough to encompass many ideas and arguments, even contradictory ones. … and importantly, we are not publishing these individuals because of gender, but rather because of their … received an Overseas Press Club award for her film on our website . (The New York Times came in second.) Crow edited …