“We are so often strangers to ourselves”: A Conversation with Jordan Windholz
There is only so much you can tell your children about the reality of the world. So, to navigate that necessary withholding, we tell stories.
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What to Read When You Want to be Stirred
I like books that mean something in and outside of their own narratives, impacting my worldview. The stirring can be felt in beautiful writing, or powerful concepts, deep analysis, or emotion that resonates off the page.
Parallel Practice: As Ever, Your Totem
The imaging tools beckoned to me, their still repose enticing in the periphery.
A Search for Country and Identity in Ayokunle Falomo’s Autobiomythography Of
It is Falomo’s legacy of rebirth, in rich, outstanding text, that there are things which must burn in order to be birthed anew
Clawing Our Way Toward Delight: A Conversation with Lyndsay Rush
This is not a lifetime achievement, it’s just my first collection of some poems that I love. And hopefully, there will be more.
On Inheritance: Maureen Sun’s The Sisters K
By recasting this Slavophile opus as a critique of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy, with a grand sense of philosophical rigor, Sun models anti-imperial engagement with the Russian canon.
Chasing the Afterlife: A Conversation with Susan L. Leary
What does it mean to live a life? What does it mean to live a good life?
“Simply tell the story”: A VOA Mini-interview with Nikkya Hargrove
...family relationships can and do change, and those we feel “kin” to can also change.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by juj e lepe
Never mind strange dogs / down murder-hornet ridge, water / nipping at your bones; I will find you