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Inheritance, Family, and Beauty: A Conversation with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith’s debut novel Glassworks (Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023) follows one family through four generations. The story begins in 1910 with the wealthy young philanthropist Agnes Carter, and then follows…

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Our Own Messy, Imperfect Reactions and Feelings: Talking with Hannah Matthews

I'm working on a piece right now for the New York Times where I knew the last sentence before I knew the argument I was making.

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They Are The Bones: A Conversation with Kelly Link

Going around the world because you can't go through it

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The Work We Can Do Only As We Age: A Conversation with Priscilla Long

I approach research dutifully and compulsively.

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Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy

Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from…

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the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson

part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.

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Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah Jeffra

Don’t we often write about what we struggle to understand?

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I Never Thought I’d Write a Book Like This: An Interview with Nicole Chung

It's my year of Banana.

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The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez

Above everything else, people come first.

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I Freed Myself from Needing to Make Sense: A Conversation with Leila Chatti

I’ve learned by now my mind is smarter than I am, than my conscious self—it’s doing all sorts of things in there, unbeknownst to me. I often tell my students that the poem knows better than I do, and so I shouldn’t be arrogant enough to think I’m in control.

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Hope and Rapture in the Anthropocene: A conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton

. . . fall in love with honey bees, or fall in love with the forest . . .

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Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht

Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.

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