chaparral

autumn/winter 2012-2013

The latest issue of Chaparral features a knock-out lineup of vital new voices. These young writers are exploring all the ways the sacred makes itself known in the details of each day. Skin color and menstruation, slick black streets, an orphan “held tight by wind.” The speaker in “Dress” is sweeping “broken glass, gorgeous arguments” and “hair” from a marble floor–and we, too, are compelled by these poems to collect all the beautiful shards of living.