Alina Stefanescu : Above/groundings.

American poet, critic and subscriber Alina Stefanescu was kind enough to highlight the press over at her blog, pointing out a whole swath of 2025 titles that caught her attention: Against Perfectionism & Other Poems by John Cone, Spamtoum by Noah Berlatsky, whittle gristle by Lori Anderson Moseman, Bibliomancy by Leah Souffrant, Studies by Micah Anthony Cavaleri, Chimneys by Tom Jenks, My Life as a Notebook by Jason Heroux, The Sun Will Bleach It Away by Rebecca Comay and Cary Fagan, Angel Dust by Micah Ballard, The Oh Oh by Beatriz Hausner, The Man: Micro Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany, The World Is Beautiful by Lillian Necakov, Never Saw It Coming by Steph Gray, pedagogies for the planthroposcene by Orchid Tierney, Lydia Unsworth’s GAG and even a poem by Austin Miles from Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #44 [see their TtD interview here]. Thanks so much! You can see her original post here.

Alina Stefanescu on Andrea Rexilius and Khashayar Mohammadi

American poet Alina Stefanescu (who is both kind and clever enough to be an above/ground press subscriber) has been writing short essay-pieces on poems lately, including some poems she found in recent above/ground press titles: Khashayar Mohammadi’s poem, “Brink of Life,” from Solitude Is An Acrobatic Act (above/ground, 2020) [you can read her essay on such here] and on Andrea Rexilius' "The Structure of a Flower: Stem," from Afterworlds (above/ground, 2020) [you can read her essay on such here]. Thanks so much! Her blog has some other neat pieces worth reading on there as well, if you wander around for a bit, including "'Voice' by Jennifer Horne: Wondering towards a mother's voice," "11 poetry writing prompts for pandemic moments," and this really lovely personal essay I quite enjoyed. Gadzooks!