Interviews Archives - Page 21 of 78

When The Pipes Inspired the Poets: A conversation with the Boiler House Poets Collective

The Boiler House held a magic, as it turned out, for all of us, with its sound installation clanging and pinging in the background, sun slanting through the pipes, pigeon feathers drifting, an occasional passerby pausing to listen.

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Men Haunting Men: A conversation with Richard Mirabella

Maybe being haunted is just feeling something crooked nearby

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Leave what you can, take the rest: An Interview with Idra Novey

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

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The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings

Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.

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The page is the stage: An interview with Junious Ward

“If you’re gonna push form, you’ve got to really push it.”

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What might my gaze reveal? An Interview with Erica Berry

I suppose I’m obsessed with how we buffer uncertainty.

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The Person Is Not The Body: An Interview with Rushi Vyas

I think, as writers, we only have so much choice. Obsessions emerge from our lived experience.

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Science and Symbols: An Interview with Kevin Jared Hosein

I like to say this is a novel about split-second decisions, because either you go for it or you sink into the water and be forgotten.

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When Craft Becomes an Act of Love: An Interview with Gayle Brandeis

I want to be fully present for whatever I'm doing, whether it's teaching, or writing, or being with people I love.

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This Is All the Time We Get: A Conversation with Felicia Chiao

I've been drawing the figure alone in interiors for a long time, and when the lockdown happened, my work blew up. I recognized, “Oh, suddenly everyone's depressed at the same time.”

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All the World is a K-Drama: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses

I wanted to be able to frame the story within this understanding that these are powerful forces and that these are stories we’ve heard a lot before, and that these stories get in the way of, or make it hard to understand or even listen to, a more authentic or more real story about who people are or can be.

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All Storytelling is Nonbinary: An interview with Jennifer Savran Kelly

People who feel safe and able or who have privilege should use the space they create for themselves to make more space for people from marginalized communities. We all need to hold space for one another.

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