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I Needed Love Poems For Myself: A Conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate

  • Gabrielle Grace Hogan
  • May 19, 2025
I’m curious about a world in which people are less bothered by the physical confrontation of mental disability, and that felt important when I was writing this book to have mental disability take up physical space in the poems and the pages.
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The First Book: Veena Dinavahi

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • May 14, 2025
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
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The Tightrope Walk of Making Comics: A Conversation with María Medem

  • Eliza Harris
  • May 12, 2025
I have a love for showing movement and things as they are. I feel very uncomfortable when things are abrupt, especially if the story doesn’t call for it.
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The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams

  • Erin Wood
  • May 5, 2025
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
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The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez

  • Nefertiti Asanti
  • April 28, 2025
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
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“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation

  • Yes(sí)
  • April 25, 2025
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
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Never Just One Story: A Conversation with Wayne Scott

  • Amy Bond
  • April 21, 2025
Falling in love for the first time is like the first draft of a short story you’re writing— messy and exciting and full of possibilities.
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Masculinity, Grief, and Music: A Conversation with Denne Michele Norris

  • Ursula Villarreal-Moura
  • April 14, 2025
Our capacity for imagination is boundless—and that’s where there’s some porousness between how different people move through the world.
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The First Book: Sam Ashworth

  • Samuel Ashworth
  • April 9, 2025
The human body is the most miraculous machine, and each of us gets one—just one.
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Imagining is an Act of Love: A Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong

  • Katie Coleman
  • April 7, 2025
...no human being is explicitly good or explicitly bad, and asking a character to be relatable all of the time negates the possibility of their being a fully realized human.
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An Accidental Daring: A Conversation with Lauren K. Watel

  • Emma Bolden
  • March 31, 2025
I do think that making something out of your fear is a hopeful act, at least on the level of the individual.
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Poetry, Healing, and the Spirit of Survival: A Conversation with Nadia Alexis

  • Leslie-Ann Murray
  • March 26, 2025
My understanding of survival has evolved. I am interested in the idea that we go through a journey of creating ourselves as humans.
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