Elizabeth Robinson
POSSESSED
as each is:
holding certainty within a greater, vast lapse.
To specify memory for which there is no language.
I saw the greenness
where
I did not chew or swallow it,
but I bit,
my teeth imprinted on its flesh
and then it released me.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author, most recently, of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions, 2018) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects, 2022). With Jennifer Phelps, she coedited Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Women’s Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2019).
ISSUE TEN features poetry by David Baker, Leila Chatti, Adam Clay, Cynthia Cruz, Lightsey Darst, Melissa Ginsburg, Johannes Göransson, John Kinsella, Joanna Klink, Mark Levine, Cate Marvin, Sara Lupita Olivares, January Gill O’Neil, Robert Ostrom, Allan Peterson, Kevin Prufer, Dean Rader, Natasha Rao, Elizabeth Robinson, Martha Silano, Stella Wong, and Julia Wong Kcomt; fiction by Amber Caron, Sarah Rose Etter, and Lee Upton; nonfiction by Lesley Jenike and Arra Lynn Ross; a film essay by Mee Ok Icaro; Mary Ruefle in conversation with Mark Wunderlich; and a selection of erasures and collages by Mary Ruefle.