Rabbit 27

Some poetry has the ability to enter our bodies and hold them captive from within. Emily Dickinson’s poems can do this, tense wires in her reprimands, her dashed intelligence. Plath, too, can furrow the brow.Daniel Beaty delivering his poem ‘Knock Knock’ on stage (available on YouTube) captivates the audience, which holds its collective breath for his resounding, final declaration. The poems in this issue offer thrilling flashes of accompaniment to the frustrations of the world, making those frustrations bearable, amusing, wondrous. Featuring work by Eloise Grills, Laura Jean McKay, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Jennifer Compton, Melinda Smith, Eleanor Zurowski, Ann Vickery and more.