Our fourth volume of Hymn for the Living Poet features work from sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Chris Burke, Sylvie Kandé, Em Marie Kohl, Bronwyn Louw, Sofia Melka, Léon Pradeau, Jean-François Puff, Mimi Tempestt, Nikki Ummel, and Christian Yeo Xuan in response to the living poetry of Ulrich Baer, Claude Ber, Anne Carson, Joël Des Rosiers, Derrick Harriell, Laetitia Keok, Jacques Roubaud, Kay Ryan, The Poetry Project, Truong Tran, and Sofie Wise.
Thank you, as ever, to Baptiste de Chabaneix — who made the illustrations for this issue, animated them, and set them to music. The song is De Chabaneix's own piano adaptation of "April Is in My Mistress' Face," a secular madrigal first published in 1594 by Thomas Morley.