by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jan 3, 2021
Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sectionsby Jill BialoskyKnopf, 2020 This stunning book-length poem, broken up into 103 sections, examines the grief and trauma associated with losing a young sister from suicide. Threaded also through these...
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jul 30, 2020
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano Viking, 2019 During my first semester at New York University, I was excited to take a survey course in American Poetry. When the old, male professor passed out the syllabus I wasn’t at...
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Mar 13, 2020
Curse What is metaled, what is stretched taut enough? What’s said –an albatross “happens”– back-lit by white and golden flurries of clouds. Can’t you see it soaring above the ship? A sentence of air, lisping between miles of wire and rope and sails. O My...
