Hope is never wasted: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones and Rebecca Gayle Howell
I’m sure you’ve seen your own versions of these stories. These truths, these stories, are everywhere. Quiet, but waiting.
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Mandana Chaffa
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Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters and a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’s Best Magazine/Debut; and an editor-at-large at Chicago Review of Books. She is president of the board of The Flow Chart Foundation, and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, where she is VP of the Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Born in Tehran, Iran, she lives in New York.
Both Microscope and Telescope: The Absurd Man by Major Jackson
The Absurd Man is confident and daring with a muscular specificity of language that is both deeply resonant for a wide audience and also singular to the poet.
A Deeper Narrative: Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbyes
These are not poems to read quickly, but to return to repeatedly.