Waveland

Evident everywhere in sel Jessica Plante-Curl s poetry is her prodigious talent for casting the ordinary into the language of strange prophecy, making the knowable world feel impossibly weighted with mystery [. . .] I would follow this confident, oracular speaker anywhere out into the ordinary world of birds shitting into iced tea on OkCupid dates, deep into a self she describes as sails of rain, or sideways into a surreal landscape where tulips greet me / with the same empty cups I ve never been / able to drink from and darkness is diced, cut into even slices. - Emily Skaja