On Jorie Graham’s “To 2040”

Where Jorie Graham’s To 2040 happens cannot be any place but now. From now, whether that be April 2023, immediately after the volume’s publication, or August of that year, or April 2039, or 2041, the book happens between the moment we begin to read its first poem (“Are We”) and its proximity to 2040. “Are We”—the title extends its syntax into the stanza—“extinct yet.”