Features & Reviews
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Our Bodies are Bodies and Our Bones Are Bones: A Conversation with Amanda Hawkins
How long would I cry if I just let it happen? How long would I need to mourn if I did not cut that mourning short?
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Echoes in the Gallery: Andy Young’s Museum of the Soon to Depart
…Young transforms these cities into an enigmatic museum, with galleries that reach back through time to the very essence of dust.
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The Vastness of What We Don’t See: A Conversation with Oluwaseun Olayiwola
While I am a poet who is concerned with place, imaginative nowheres are where I think a poem begins.
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“It’d Be the Last Great Punk Song”: On ¡PÓNK! by Marcus Clayton
Punk is not safe, but neither is the world if you are Black or brown.
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Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
…Intuition and empathy are central methods of communication when we look to understand others and to put ourselves in others’ positions.
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The First Book: Karissa Chen
Despite the many periods of self-doubt I had, the stretches where I felt I would never write anything good again—I would always eventually return to my desk, because I wouldn’t let myself give up.
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Saints, Bodies, and Machines: A Conversation with Erika Swyler
When we push societal roles aside, what’s left between parents and children is the desire to both care and to be cared for.
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Writing in the Aftermath: Paul Rousseau’s Friendly Fire
It wasn’t until I was older and started hunting with my father that I began to understand the implications of proximity to gunfire.
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Open to the World: A Conversation with Irvin Weathersby Jr.
You can walk around with your eyes closed, but if you do decide to open them and embrace the world around you, you can often be injured by what you see.
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The First Book: Zahid Rafiq
There were feelings, images, voices, silences, and there is life, the experience of living. It came from that.
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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….
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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.