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Editors Ruminate: On the Poetry of Exposure

October 4, 2018 By admin in literary journals, poems, Ruminate Tags: editors ruminate, exposure, vulnerability

Cover Image for Ruminate Magazine: Exposure — ” Exposure

“A vulnerability index measures exposure. In climate science, it estimates the resiliency of communities that will bear the brunt of rising temperatures and seas. In social work, it identifies who should be prioritized for services according to their health and fragility. In the financial sector, it gauges a consumer’s level of economic insecurity and stress. In all cases, to be exposed is to be subject to harm.”

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Editors Ruminate: A Way Through

May 1, 2018 By admin in literary journals, poems, Ruminate Tags: editors ruminate, Issue 46

My latest reflection on the poetry of Issue 46: A Way Through is up on Ruminate.

Ten tiles by ten tiles you scrub again

with a woman who is not your sister
(this is how you tell time is passing)

you are hungry then you are full.

–From “Fluorescent” by Jessica Yuan

Ruminate Issue 45: Unfinished

January 5, 2018 By admin in blog posts, Ruminate Tags: editors ruminate, issue 45

My Editors Ruminate blog for issue 45: unfinished is up! I hope you enjoy!

“Un- is the prefix of negation. Its identity is opposition, its power, reversal. Finish, on the other hand, signals completion, achievement, and conclusion. Self-help books proselytize the benefits of list-making, how completing daily tasks will make me fitter, happier, more productive.”

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Ruminate Issue 44: Small

October 5, 2017 By admin in blog posts, literary journals, Ruminate Tags: editors ruminate, small

The new issue of Ruminate is here and so is my Editors Ruminate blog. Get a sneak peek at these beautiful poems and order a copy today.

O small ones,
To be born!

—“Eclogue,” George Oppen

Small often means vulnerable. As when one person uses power to make another feel small. As when an individual seems insignificant within a sprawling system. Or when a hurricane decimates a city and we witness the extreme precarity of life. But smallness can also be a source of strength. It’s no surprise that this theme is often repeated in children’s stories: The Little Engine That Could, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina. Smallness can be the glitch in the system, the wrench in the machine. It can also be a line of poetry that reconfigures how we see the world. An image that unlocks something new. The poems in this issue explore the many implications and iterations of small, from subtle gestures of kindness to passing moments that accumulate to become something bigger than even the poem can hold.