ISLE Issue 29.2: Focus on Poetry
Editor’s Note by Christina Gerhardt
April, of course, is National Poetry Month. In celebration of it, Cecily Parks, ISLE’s Associate Editor of Poetry, edited a special cluster of poetry. Featuring work by Tamiko Beyer, Carla M. Cherry, Tyler John Dettloff, Sara Lupita Olivares, and Cintia Santana, it highlights new poetry engaging the environment. The subsequent essays, too, engage poetry and poetics. Davy Knittle considers African American US poet June Jordan’s “Skyrise for Harlem,” an essay Jordan penned that refuses 1950s and 1960s style urban renewal ...