Rachel Taube

Various Instructions

•Various Instructions for Translating Your Past

Joan Naviyuk Kane

To make the lost person’s location become known
forget nothing of the field & see that you were wrong

Various Instructions

•Various Instructions on Returning Home to the Midwest (or, How to Fashion a New Pledge of Allegiance)

Carlina Duan

Write down a list of locations you love, places you still want to visit, acts of kindness you’ve witnessed, questions you harbor about home, a recipe for a vegetable you hate, the address of your closest community garden, library, or body of water.

Various Instructions

An image of Bashir's work as an installation in Rome: a long hall of arches with large white flags hung on string, with lines from her work printed on them in black.

•HOW NOT TO STAY UNSHOT IN THE U.S.A.

Samiya Bashir

EAT GARLIC. GO TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. ATTEND A COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL. SEE A POP STAR SING. GO TO THE MOVIES. TEACH CREATIVE WRITING. PLAY LOUD MUSIC ON CAR SPEAKERS BUT BE BLACK. ATTEND MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Various Instructions

Close-up of a small cactus covered in bright purple flowers, on a rocky desert floor.

•Ongoing Revision: Building a Cactus Garden

Lauren Camp

Planting in the high desert is about compromise. What can stand firm through careening wind? What can handle summer’s bubble-wrap heat? Aside from a brief delirium with utterly wrong choices, for years I have put in flats of appropriate perennials. Of those that make it, some spread voraciously, draining moisture from each neighboring plant.

Teach Ecotone

•Double Stitching

Jane Satterfield

Lesley Wheeler’s “Doubled, Briefly” is a stealthy poem that highlights the doubling, uncanny nature of its form, the bref double.

Teach Ecotone

•“After ___________”

Geoffrey Brock

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s poem “Some Say,” modeled very loosely on Sappho’s fragment 16, is a stellar example of a literary imitation—a new poem based on an old poem. Your challenge is to write another.

Poem in a Landscape & Poetry

•On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

To a Friend

Dwellers at home, in indolence and ease,
How deep their debt, to those that roam the seas,
Or cross the lands, in quest of every art
That science, knowledge, pity can impart
To help mankind, or guild the lettered page
The bold discoverers of every age.

Poem in a Landscape & Poetry

•By an Ojibwa Female Pen

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Invitation to sisters to a walk in the Garden, after a shower

Come, sisters come! the shower’s past,
The garden walks are drying fast,
The Sun’s bright beams are seen again,
And nought within, can now detain.