“Some sacred beings seem to be sacred to all imaginations at all times. The Moon, for example, Fire, Snakes and those four important beings which can only be defined in terms of nonbeing, Darkness, Silence, Nothing, Death.” This is Auden, from his essay “Making, Knowing, and Judging,” in which he discusses the ways a young writer…
Approaching the deepest, wildest terrain of this editorial process, mid-correspondence with many of the writers whose work appears here, I opened a pivotal email. A poet asked whether I was seeking work around a particular theme. I replied: “I’m looking for poems in which structure and meaning are so tightly woven they can’t be separated—structure…
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