It’s easy to forget the opening line of “Nastic Movements,” the first poem of In Another Country by Andrea Jurjevic, is “Sweetness, back home.” The sweet in this case is more the elusive, fatal beauty of the familiar than any saccharine indulgence. In “Nastic Movements,” fatal threats are always near “like a snake around a […]
“Killing Orpheus” by Forester McClatchey
June 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
In the titular poem of Forester McClatchey’s debut poetry collection, Killing Orpheus, the poet-prophet struggles to play a satisfactory song to the masses. From the start, we feel the audience wants sordid entertainment. When “sickle-girl” moves in, the crowd hushes: “Each cut she makes is a marvel of efficiency.” The crowd is drawn into the […]