“Neighborhood Watch”
Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Douglas Culhane: There is an openness to this poem both visually and textually. It conveys that sense of thoughts taking shape just as the words appear on the page—something only poetry can do. Poet Anjali Khosla: …I suppose that is what has surprised me the most—this collaborative broadside is a piece of art in its own right. It’s not simply my poem printed over an illustration. I like that.
Poet Anjali Khosla is an MFA graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Neighborhood Watch” is her first poem to be accepted for publication. Artist Douglas Culhane works in sculpture and drawing. He has exhibited in New York and New England.