What does it mean for tea leaves to taste authentic? How does one make water appear below dirt or locate cover under a blanket of snow? The poems in CPR Vol. 24, Issue 2 search for answers to complex questions. “What do I know,” Dan Rosenberg writes in “My Ancestors,” as the speaker imagines the lives of ancestors drawn by a son “on scraps of cardboard.” In “Redbuds,” Ja’net Danielo writes about doing “tender math,” and trying to “solve for x”: “How much // silver would it take for this body to betray itself again?” And in Sharon Kennedy-Nolle’s “The ‘F’ Poem”: “What does emptiness teach an empty hand?”
Read Vol. 24, Issue 2 for more questions and answers beyond what we mention here. Our June issue includes “Excerpts from Homage to Green Tea” by Ch’oŭi translated by Ian Haight and T’ae-yong Hŏ, as well as poems by Emilee Kinney, Joseph Hutchison, Shannon K. Winston, Shawn R. Jones, Ronda Piszk Broatch, Ralph Sneeden, Despy Boutris, Dorsía Smith Silva, Ja’net Danielo, Darrell Dela Cruz, Bobby Bolt, Maryam Shadmehr, Maya Bernstein, Marcene Gandolfo, Jeff Vollmer, Camille Carter, Michael Jones, and Sharon Kennedy-Nolle. We also feature Cheryl Ann Passanisi’s review of Now We’re Getting Somewhere by Kim Addonizio and Ann Hart’s review of Thief by Jennifer Stewart Miller.
