Tag: Alexis Quinlan
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“On Slipping Code”: Stephanie Strickland’s new and selected poems How the Universe Is Made, reviewed by Alexis Quinlan
Like many, I come to Stephanie Strickland via the digital. In the winter of 2009, she brought her laptop to the Poetry Project’s lectern. A video loop of waves crashing soon appeared on the projector screen. At the top of each swell, in dainty, spidery cursive font, a fragment of her poem “slippingglimpse” pitched forward…
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“Wish Me Poetry”: Alexis Quinlan on Sarah Sarai’s poetry collection That Strapless Bra in Heaven
It’s the winter of 2020. Despite a life swimming in poetry—despite poems in morning email and poems in backpacks all day, despite poems on “devices,” poems for students, poems at night—I sometimes wonder, What is poetry good for? This is hardly a terrible question. Poetry is like god: if she exists, she can deal with…
Heavy Feather Review 