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Embodied Voices: A Conversation with Sonya Huber

So many of the metaphors we use that come from the body and bodily experience are ableist and predicated upon a notion of “normal.” In educational systems, that idea of “normal” has led to serious accessibility issues, to separate and unequal classrooms.

Finding Land: Audrey Magee’s The Colony

“When you look at the colonial system, one of the things they want to eradicate is the native language, because they don’t understand what’s going on and they can’t control it.”

Can we be too alive together? A conversation with Chris Martin on poetry, autism, and our neurodivergent future

The way we arrange the conditions of our togetherness can allow all the writing to happen that beckons to happen.

Accommodations are not accessibility: An interview with Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Being disabled in higher education takes a psychic toll, whether you are faculty or a student. Yet most institutions do the bare minimum to remain “compliant” with the law rather than doing the work to make their spaces accessible and inclusive.

The Pastoral Novel in Chaos: Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency

. . . to witness the world is always to participate in it, to make choices about what to see and what to ignore, and also to be worked upon by forces of differing scales.

Finding Enchantment in the Ordinary: A Conversation with Meng Jin

The reason why so many of these stories have metafictional elements is that I was trying to write in an ethical way while feeling like a professional liar.

Sketch Book Reviews: Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

EMBRACE FEARLESSLY THE BURNING EARTH . . . is a quintessential Barry Lopez book. It is a clarion call to lovers of the earth, but one full of hope and optimism. This is exactly the kind of book we should all be reading right now.

Love in and Loving Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons

If I didn’t already write poems, Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons would make me want to write them.

Sustaining our Creative Practice: An Interview with May-lee Chai

Writing is what sustains me and gets me through. It’s the one place where we have control, and even if terrible things happen, it's not someone else making the terrible things happen.

The Imprint of a Mind: Jazmina Barrera’s Linea Nigra

This sparse book, “an essay on pregnancy and earthquakes,” deals with the author’s dueling fears of recent and future earthquakes and her impending childbirth.

A void that migrates to the surface: An Interview with Juliet Patterson

That was my singular personal motivation for doing any of this work: to prevent the threat that this might happen to me. I naïvely believed that my parents would not die by their own hand because they had suffered as children of parents who had already died that way.

To Write the Way We Live: A Conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

I see myself as a story writer, and that's just the best thing ever.

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