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& yes, my family did raise me right. Yes, / they cleaned their bones & cracked them clean / open to suck. Would fight over cartilage & knuckle/Sip the marrow’s nectar from urn. .
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Zina’s observations of her time in Detroit crystallize both a feeling of otherness and a wry critique of the young American activists who celebrated socialist ideas without fully appreciating the legacy of Soviet rule in Ukraine.
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I wanted to feel in control of something, but I didn’t know how to say that.
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Carly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
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It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
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These are the terms Lahiri was trying to, seeking to find in Italian: this is her creed as a fiction writer.
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All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.
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Anne Liu Kellor discusses her debut memoir, HEART RADICAL.
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I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
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A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
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The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.
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Threa Almontaser discusses her debut collection, THE WILD FOX OF YEMEN.
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It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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Why was I crying over a can of seasoned squash?
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Language enacts violence through manipulation.
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Meredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
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Caroline Kim discusses her debut collection, THE PRINCE OF MOURNFUL THOUGHTS AND OTHER STORIES.
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Who “owns” the English language?
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Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.
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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Some people say dreams are a glimpse into an alternate reality.
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Judith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
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[Zurawski] is the advocate for the open exterior of poetry.
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Szczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.
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When we begin life, language is play.
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Aria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
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Empathy and forgiveness must begin with understanding.
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Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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