
In September, I traveled to Guatemala to teach workshops on soap making.
I was invited there by the organization Oxlajuj B’atz’, based in Panajachel.
One of the workshops was in the village of Xeabaj Dos.
This community of people has been twice relocated in less than eight years.
Their original village, Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, was completely destroyed by Hurricane [...]

“Miracle of the Pitanga Tree” illustrates the cover of poet Melissa Kwasny’s new book, Reading Novalis in Montana, from Milkweed Editions.

i spent a month among the ghosts at yaddo near saratoga springs, ny.
i learned some things:

i was in residence last fall at artpoint-gumno in the village of sloeshtica, macedonia. I had wonderful neighbors who taught me how to herd sheep, keep bees, make plum liquor, speak macedonian, and get around town. nostravia, sloeshtica!

the cover of poet James Cihlar’s first book, Undoing, from Little Pear Press.