Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
...moreKathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
...moreThere are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...moreLearning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.
...moreDeborah A. Miranda discusses her new collection of poetry, ALTAR FOR BROKEN THINGS.
...moreIt comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
...moreLauren Camp discusses her new poetry collection, TOOK HOUSE.
...morePoet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
...more“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
...moreAgain, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
...moreK-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
...moreNarratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.
...moreLeah Hampton discusses her debut collection, F*CKFACE AND OTHER STORIES.
...more“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
...moreAimee Nezhukumatathil discusses her new book, WORLD OF WONDERS.
...moreCentral to Subduction is the question of cultural ownership, namely in story.
...moreLaura Munson discusses her first novel, WILLA’S GROVE.
...moreAround here, we don’t waste meat, and we don’t waste life.
...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...moreMy defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
...moreSo begins an odyssey of survival. Will they make it?
...moreAnd then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
...moreA poem by Jessica Smith yields the feeling that atoms of meaning vibrate, then come together.
...more“I would say the primary role of speech in these poems is to attempt something. To try.”
...moreChange happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreLiz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
...morePoet Martin Jude Farawell discusses his debut full-length collection, ODD BOY.
...moreBarbara Berman’s 2019 Poetry Shout-Out!
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