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The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings
When teaching formal forms to my poetry students, at some point I inevitably turn their attention to A.E. Stallings’ poems that never fail to delight, challenge, and surprise with their dexterity of...
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Poets make the world huge: A conversation with Michael Wiegers of Copper Canyon
This year, Copper Canyon has released A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon a sweeping new selection of poems from the press’s fifty-year history. The collection includes...
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Leave what you can, take the rest: An Interview with Idra Novey
When I first came across Idra Novey’s Take What You Need, I was interested firstly by the title and, then, by the cover. There was something mysterious and inviting about the call to action paired...
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The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan
Charif Shanahan’s second poetry collection, Trace Evidence (Tin House, 2023) is a stunning tryptic that powerfully explores themes of mixed-race identity, time, mortality, and queer love. At the center...
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I Never Thought I’d Write a Book Like This: An Interview with Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung’s latest book, a new memoir A Living Remedy (Ecco, 2023), was written and completed in the wake of losing both her parents. Her father, only sixty-seven years old, was killed by diabetes...
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Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah...
Miah Jeffra’s new novel, American Gospel, explores Baltimore’s neighborhoods through the eyes of its narrators: Ruth Anne, Peter, and Thomas. By using these intimate first-person narratives, Jeffra...
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They Are The Bones: A Conversation with Kelly Link
Kelly Link once won a writing contest for a free trip around the world, answering the question: “Why do you want to go around the world?” Her answer: “Because you can’t go through it.” On paper, Link...
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Our Own Messy, Imperfect Reactions and Feelings: Talking with Hannah Matthews
You may have heard the word ‘doula’ used in relation to childbirth, but ‘doula’ has a broader meaning. A doula is someone who provides expert guidance and support through challenging health-related...
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Inheritance, Family, and Beauty: A Conversation with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel Glassworks (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023) follows one family through four generations. The story begins in 1910 with the wealthy young philanthropist Agnes...
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The Poem as an Archive of Your Life and the World Around You: The Rumpus...
Through various poetic forms he shows us how living is rife with struggle and challenge and uncertainty. The poems in Above Ground are at turns philosophical, musical, lyrical explorations of Black...
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Against a Singular Story: A Conversation with Jane Wong
Written with poetic lyricism laced with rage and humor, Jane Wong’s Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is rooted in her childhood as the daughter of immigrants who ran a Chinese restaurant on the Jersey...
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Quietly Magnificent: A Conversation with Christine Sneed
The way we care for each other, or fail to care for each other, is central to Christine Sneed’s shimmering new short story collection Direct Sunlight, published in June by TriQuarterly...
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Writing the Emotional Stakes of the Mundane: A Conversation with Alexandra Chang
A webcam, an orchid, a shopping cart, a manicured hand over some mahjong tiles, and a pair of cats: these elements may seem commonplace on their own. Rendered into the book cover of Alexandra Chang’s...
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The Price of Power, Cannibalism, and Transmutation: A Conversation with...
Shanta Lee Gander, interdisciplinary artist and award-winning writer, has recently released her magnum opus, Black Metamorphoses (Etruscan Press), a poetry collection whose structure is inspired by...
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