"Metamorphoses springs from Ovid's epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity. In poems that shift registers from travelogue to elegy, from nature documentary to a simple record of the realities of daily life (gay desire, bicycling), Kennedy focuses on transformation, personal and collective, in an empire in decline, in a world transfigured by ecological upheaval. Like a fever dream over Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Kennedy has one foot in Ancient...

"'Abya Yala' -- 'land of life' or 'land of vital blood' -- is a Pre-Columbian term of the Guna people of Panam̀ and Colombia to refer to the American continent and more recently has signified the idea of a decolonized 'New World' among various Indigenous movements. In Isthmus to Abya Yala, Panamanian American poet Roberto Harrison summons a mythic consciousness in response to this political and spiritual struggle, seeking to rehumanize our contemporary...