APR Volume 54, Issue 4 (PDF)

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July/August 2025

p. 4
Hearsay & Other Poems
Richard Siken

p. 6
Time & Space Get a Little Slippery: An Interview with Richard Siken
Z.L. Nickels

p. 11
What I Like About Poetry
Ellen Bass

p. 12
Anti-Madeleine & Other Poems
Margaret Ray

p. 14
Lynchburg, Virginia & Other Poems
Joshua Bennett

p. 16
Don’t Start Me the Lying
Sylvia Jones

p. 17
Deep Sea Fishes
Aase Berg
Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson

p. 18
Bedtime Story: On Praise
Michael Hurley

p. 19
Future Grief & Church
Susan Nguyen

p. 20
I am a ribbon of flesh / waving in the mirror: A Conversation with Ruben Quesada about Brutal Companion
Tiffany Troy

p. 22
What Our Feelings Are Without Us: The Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly
David Baker

p. 27
Claustrophobia & Other Poems
Stanley Plumly

p. 30
Memory to Magnificence: The Epic Imagination of Garrett Hongo’s Lost Home
Teow Lim Goh

p. 34
Execution
Jonathan Katz

p. 34
July/August Heat
Moriel Rothman-Zecher

p. 35
The Vivarium
Emily Wallis Hughes

p. 36
Chai Everlasting & Other Poems
Matthew Lippman

p. 38
Five letters from Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer

p. 41
Eclipse, Marion, Indiana, April 8, 2024
Rebecca Lehmann

p. 42
The Spiral
Cleo Qian

p. 44
Terms of Endearment
Conor Bracken