Features & Reviews
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We Can and Should Go Home Again: Raye Hendrix’s What Good is Heaven
These poems feel grainy with rich texture, like sinking your hands into the soil, the way it stays between your fingers all day if you don’t scrub your hands clean.
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Funny and Large and Wild: A Conversation with Sarah Lyn Rogers
I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.
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Pawn or Perpetrator: Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally
Younis, given her expertise in Iraqi politics and international affairs, offers welcome insight into a realm that is often only shown in snippets on the news.
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Send in the (Lesbian) Clowns: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Not everything is going to be funny to everybody, but a joke is going to be funny to at least one person, one time, at a specific point.
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Wrestling with Bears: A Conversation with Robert Ostrom
When I write, I don’t set out to preserve anything. I feel more like a conduit for whatever obsessions, conscious or not, are inside of me.
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“even as we all crowd the same body”: On Tetra Nova by Sophia Terazawa
To read Tetra Nova is to lean into nonlinear disorientation, flipping pages back and forth across time, scribbling in the margins of Vietnamese history.
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A Door Isn’t Just a Door: An Interview with Lucy Rose
I collect things like a magpie. I need to try everything.
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The First Book: Emily J. Smith
I wanted to explore how all these small indignities pile up for women over time and what an attempt at revenge might look like.
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Musings on the Lost Landscape: A Conversation with Lauren Markham
I feel increasingly in my life that action and feeling must be in a dance.
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Meaning in the Mundane: A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful
Loss and loneliness might be ubiquitous, but Greene reminds us of their infinite manifestations, each with a specificity so intimate we feel it like a punch to the gut.
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Of Black Milk, Black Bodies, and Accepting the Muchness in Lyrical Poetry: A Conversation with Tiana Clark
I’m learning to embrace my excess, and that gentle acceptance of my extraness waterfalls over into my work.
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A Memoir of Becoming and a Tribute to Joni Mitchell: A Conversation with Paul Lisicky
I write because I want to be in another place, out of my chair, looking up at trees.