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. . . it was clear in my head that the dog in the book would not die, that he would bring people together, and also function as a kind of barometer for good and evil because, in my experience, that is how dogs are.
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I think it is imperative to explore the limits of the colonial narrative and its dictates because, whether we like it or not, the world that we have inherited was created by that narrative. If we have any hope of moving past it, we have to understand it fully.
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Masculinity isn’t a thing. It is an absence, an excavation. Men are raised in the erase of all that is tender and good and loving until for many of us, all that is left is an unfocused rage.
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There’s no reason for cruelty; the joy is in the writing. I always try to remember why I started doing this thing: Because I had to. It’s not a choice for many of us writers to write, but we do have a choice about whether we’re going to be nice or not.
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As we start seeing the effects of climate change, of people struggling with drought and struggling with erratic weather patterns and flooding, we have to accept our responsibility.
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To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat is about a house.”
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“I always try to locate stories deep inside myself, physically and emotionally.”
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Jeri Frederickson discusses her debut collection, YOU ARE NOT LOST.
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Leonora Simonovis discusses her debut collection, STUDY OF THE RAFT.
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Andrés Cerpa discusses his new poetry collection, THE VAULT.
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Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
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Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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Roberto Lovato discusses his new memoir, UNFORGETTING.
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Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Natalie Diaz discusses her new collection, POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM.
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Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
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Marika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
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Dorianne Laux discusses her newly released collection, ONLY AS THE DAY IS LONG.
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