Vertical Interrogation News Today

Louie Leyson’s winning work is a glossary about Filipino migrant workers

Crouching calligraphy, a radiant riposte, a 12-step interrogation of strangers… words take shape in myriad ways as 18 artists explore what happens when poetry and sculpture collide

Crazyhorse has been publishing the best established and emerging writers for over 50 years. The work weve published has recently been reprinted in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Best American Experimental Writing, and The Pushcart Prize, among other places.

Kate Zambreno's process is rumination and frenzy. That's how she completed "To Writer as if Already Dead," an homage to the late writer Hervé Guibert.

Kate Zambreno's process is rumination and frenzy. That's how she completed "To Writer as if Already Dead," an homage to the late writer Hervé Guibert.

Mona Arshi and Andrew McMillan, said, “Our shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to profound change, and the stylistic freedom that today’s poets have claimed. From this impressive field, we unanimously chose Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart as our winner. It is a radical and arresting collection that recalibrates what it’s possible for poetry to achieve.” Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class communi...