By: Stephanie Burt

Brussel Sprouts on the Stalk

By: Stephanie Burt

Self-Portrait as Kitty Pryde

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

Poetry as a life-saving form of thought.

By: Amanda French

She refused, refused, refused.

By: Anthony Miller

An opium-addled polymath.

By: Brian Berger

His imagination was prodigious.

By: Lynn Peril

Her look said: “Leave me the fuck alone.”

By: Brian Berger

“Throb, baffled and curious brain!”

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

He charges us to commit to the world’s relentless unsettling.

By: Franklin Bruno

Elected to poetry like a fucking nun with a “vocation.”

By: Anthony Miller

He elevated intertextuality to a literary theology.

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2012.

By: Mike Fleisch

Ex postcard facto

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2011.

By: Matthew Battles

A change-ringing verse for the turning of the year.