Poetry
For the Nation
Contributor
Lisa JarnotLisa Jarnot's fourth book of poems, Night Scenes, was published by Flood Editions this year.
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Sons of the Nation
By María Iñigo ClavoFEB 2021 | Critics Page
We can think of the nation as akin to a narcissistic father figure that hopes to see his image, feats and aspirations reflected in the citizens
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By Nikki WallschlaegerJUNE 2022 | Poetry
Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured in The Nation, Brick, American Poetry Review, Witness, Kenyon Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses (Horseless Press 2015) and Crawlspace (Bloof 2017) as well as the graphic book I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel (2019) from Bloof Books. She is also the author of an artist book called “Operation USA” through the Baltimore based book arts group Container, a project acquired by Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. Her third collection, Waterbaby, is out from Copper Canyon Press. She was a Visiting Associate Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop from Spring 2021 to Spring 2022.
The Art of Eliminating a Nation
By Shir Mohammad KarimiNOV 2021 | Critics Page
What a pain to hear a young woman cry, a thousand wishes gone. A child weeps for the father he has lost. These children did not choose where to be born. And yet, here we are. They are paying the biggest cost for this war of the world. To be witness to the explosion of a bomb in front of the girl’s school; one can never imagine. Their only crime was the desire to learn. This picture should be a source of shame for the world; it is a pure pain for us.
The Museum as Multi-dimensional Compass in Time and Geography
By Gus Casely-HayfordSEPT 2021 | Critics Page
The creation of the British Museum in the 1750s was never just about building a collection of exceptional objects, constructing beautiful galleries, or gathering brilliant curators. Our national museum project began as our nation took shape, as the constituent nations that came to represent the United Kingdom established an uneasy national modus operandi.
