The First Book: Zahid Rafiq
There were feelings, images, voices, silences, and there is life, the experience of living. It came from that.
Features & Reviews
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One Can Be Alive Again: Madeleine Cravens’s Pleasure Principle
Cravens’s reliance on and loyalty to the image become a propulsive, vibrating force—this is a poetics of presence, of that which is tangible....
Memoir as a Vehicle for Connection: A Conversation with Sarah LaBrie
If I can be as specific as possible about my own understanding of my experience, that will have to resonate with some other people.
“Why Are You Still Resisting?”: On M.M. Olivas’s Sundown in San Ojuela
Olivas’s novel is a gross-as-hell ghost story and a razor-sharp vision of the present moment, a multi-narrator rollercoaster you’ll binge like your favorite television show.
The Light Realm, the Dark Realm, and Everything in the Middle: A Conversation with Hyeseung Song
People have to give themselves more grace. It takes effort to do what we are doing.
Through the Y2K Looking Glass: A Conversation with Kristen Felicetti
I think as a reader, you can make the mental connection between the internet then and now and how much things have changed.
Getting the Last Laugh: Alexei Navalny’s Patriot
Navalny’s tragicomic memoir, which one might also categorize as his last call to action, accomplishes the feat of keeping the reader so ensconced that they forget the person capturing every ounce of their attention, intellect, and sympathy is no longer alive.
A Productive Tension Between Grief and Beauty: A Conversation with Emily Jungmin Yoon
I think as a poet overall, I’ve come to really picture specific people when I write, regardless of what the poem is about.
My Therapist Prescribed Me Dedicated Poetry Practice: A Conversation with Delilah McCrea
Being trans demands, for me, that I deconstruct that constructed world, and that opens up to a more magical one.
Moving the Dialogue Forward: Jerald Walker’s Magically Black and Other Essays
Idiosyncratic and smart, MAGICALLY BLACK moves the dialog forward.
A Good Question is a Risk: A Conversation with Emmalea Russo
Art doesn’t have an obligation to comfort, affirm, make us feel fuzzy. The question is, how do we respond and react?
