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Julie Marie Wade

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Julie Marie Wade is the author of 13 volumes of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the newly released poetry collection, Skirted (The Word Works, 2021), the book-length lyric essay, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University Press, 2020) and the limited-edition, hybrid-forms chapbook, P*R*I*D*E (Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2020), which won the inaugural Hunger Mountain Chapbook Prize. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, she teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University.

Far from Usual and Better for It: The Layered Poetics of Allison Blevins’s Slowly/Suddenly

Slowly/Suddenly is presented as a diptych in the Table of Contents, perhaps mirroring Blevins’s commitments to other forms of art, but her poems’ progression from Part I to Part II is not a linear narrative, not a Before & After.

Love in and Loving Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons

If I didn’t already write poems, Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons would make me want to write them.

Reading Achy Obejas’s BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN as Indelible and Recursive Testimony

A review of BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN, a bilingual poetry collection from Achy Obejas available now from Beacon Press.

Catalyst Events and a Time for Poetry: An Interview with Charles Flowers

Consider: My coming out story has been told, but coming out is constantly changing and shifting and needs retelling, and each telling has value for a particular audience.

Every Moment Has Infinite Possibilities: A Conversation with Julie Iromuanya

Julie Iromuanya discusses her debut novel, MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR.

Under the Influence of Jane Wong: A Recipe-Qua-Review of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

Combine multiple ingredients in a single stanza-bowl.

Opening Survival Doors Through Language: A Conversation with Stacey Waite

Stacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.

Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung

The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.

From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore

Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.

Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty

Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.

There Are No Cheap Seats in Lauren Shapiro’s Arena

Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.

Arriving at the Mystery: A Conversation with Oliver de la Paz

Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.

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