Red as in: Dawn Lundy Martin’s Instructions for the Lovers
Perhaps like a phoenix, Martin maintains such a commanding presence throughout the book because she has endured the sacrificial fire of being a poet, the necessary self-immolation.
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The Persistence of Enchantment: A Conversation with Sofia Samatar
To me, the difference between invisibility and opacity is the difference between being misread and being granted a quality of privacy that is a fundamental part of being a human among other humans.
A Meditation on Magical Girls: Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires
Park is not being cheeky. Rather, she’s taking a power that has lived in the hearts and minds of so many young people and propelling the magical girl genre into an entirely new dimension.
The First Book: Yasmin Zaher
If I thought too much about audience, or audiences, I think I would encounter too many opposing demands and the writing would end up average.
The Astonishing Power of African Poetry: A Review of New-Generation African Poets (Kumi)
Featuring gifted emerging poets from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa . . . Kumi is a final tribute to a visionary and valuable investment in African poetry.
Narco-poetics and the Voice of Recovery: A Conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma
Hope stems in the imagination, in our capacity to re-imagine how life on this finite planet could coexist with non-human life and the cycles of shift that give us a cool summer breeze and the hurricane.
The Possibilities Are Endless: Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights
[Valencia] portrays both the beauty and the horror of the desert, its landscape, and its inhabitants with the keen eye of someone who is intimately familiar with the rhythms and realities of desert life.
The Good in What Remains: A Conversation with Rachel Zimmerman
You may end up losing control. You may yell at your child or your mother. I want to give permission to the smorgasbord of feelings around loss.
Spellbound by the Dream Girls: A Conversation with Danez Smith
I’ve learned how to play inside prose. . . . I have no fear because I have no map.
A Seaside Carnival of Narration: On Andrzej Tichý’s Purity
“You’ll be my way out. . . . And it makes no difference what you’re thinking or feeling, or whether or not you believe in transcendence or whatever you call it. I’m already inside of you.”
Creating Community in a Long Line of Feminist Literary Spaces: A Conversation with Marisa Crawford
My guideline for myself and my advice for others in terms of curating and editing is to be open and let the work that’s created guide you...
Causation and Carrier Bags: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler
Human exceptionalism is being challenged, and with that, there’s a growing public outcry that it’s time to care for our fellow creatures.