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Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections

How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.

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“I’m Not Grateful to Have Been Adopted, But I Am Thankful To Have Grown Up In A Wonderful Home”: A Conversation With Angela Tucker

By contextualizing my experience, I hoped to offer new dimensions to the conversation around adoption.

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In the Wilds of Magic: Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark

Despite the challenges presented by this novel’s wandering nature, Lispector’s stylistic feats enchants through to the end, and offers a compelling perspective on the wild magic of her voice.

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Writing Outside the Box: A Conversation with Taymour Soomro

Do I want to be writing the way that I think literary fiction ought to be written? That’s starting to not seem so interesting to me anymore.

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The Anger of Memory: Teju Cole’s Tremor

In this, Cole has taken the "tragedy" of a transcontinental survivalist to spin a narrative that transcends the conventional perimeters of a novel.

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The Gift and Burden of Ancestral Stories: A Conversation with Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

Some of my favorite moments and scenes are when characters do something surprising that bends toward humor or something selfless that reaches for connection.

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A Lament, A Call to Action, A Love Story: A Conversation with Alejandro Varela

There’s truth in everything we write, but there’s a lot of fabrication and fantasy, and you don’t have that freedom with science.

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Owning the Self: Yesenia Montilla’s Muse Found in a Colonized Body

I only care about revolution / & the ugly business of revenge.

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The Tether Between Poetry and Science: a conversation with Emily Hockaday

Just as my body that might ache all night is the same body that gives me pleasure. And I feel it aching because I am alive and living in it.

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A Literature for Lost Souls: Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound

Vasyakina powerfully encompasses the absurd and expansive universe of what Gogol described as the “unbridled incomprehensible Rus,” her homeland land with its terrors, its poetry and loftiness and its magic, to the skin and bones of the tender and violent people who inhabit it.

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