A time to speak directly: A Conversation with Jesse Lee Kercheval
. . . when I’m putting together a collection of poems, I want an emotional arc.
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S/Talking Jared: A conversation with Jared Pappas-Kelley
We swim in feedback, baby sharks, and it’s about how do we live in that and make sense or are perhaps shaped by it.
Animal as Metaphor: Erica Berry’s Wolfish
Living entities, with whom we cannot communicate fully, seduce us in their majesty.
Donut Dollies and Maven Matriarchs: A Conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea
If you’ve got that outline already lived, then you have to try to honor it.
Toward a Glimmering Unknowable Self: A Conversation with Emerson Whitney
The great thing about writing autobiographically, in these kinds of ways, is that I get to write the whole swarm of thoughts and connect them as I want to.
Recollections of a Non-Existence: Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X
“There was no con. There was no crime. There was only fiction.”
The Fragile Ecology of Teenage Boyhood in Shy: A Conversation with Max Porter
We have to be urgent and radical in our belief that some solutions exist . . .
Against a Singular Story: A Conversation with Jane Wong
In many ways, community is that which allows the heart to heal, and to heal that heart together.
Memory Among Landscape: Alissa Hattman’s Sift
. . . in a barren world with little protection and corners to hide, it’s also impossible to hide from our thoughts . . .
The Poem as an Archive of Your Life and the World Around You: The Rumpus Interview with Clint Smith
. . . intellectual rigor or artistic integrity don’t have to come at the expense of legibility . . .
Sketch Book Reviews: Night Vision
I love it when a book forces me to reassess my thinking on a particular subject.
Very Little of This Book Is Made-up: Talking with R.F. Kuang about her Novel
I don’t think there are easy answers. Should we make judgments about rudeness when we talk about artistic freedom?