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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin

  • Frances Donovan
  • August 19, 2020
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Disrupting Language Hierarchies: Talking with Judith Santopietro

  • Claire Jimenez
  • July 13, 2020
Judith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
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The Blacker the Berry, the Quicker They Shoot

  • Shamecca Harris
  • June 15, 2020
Fear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful

  • Vanessa Mártir
  • May 12, 2020
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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The Delusion of Objectivity: Talking with Leslie Jamison

  • Alana Massey
  • April 9, 2018
Leslie Jamison discusses The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, understanding that every text is incomplete, and whether motherhood has changed her writing.
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Staying Syncretic: A Conversation with Kool A.D.

  • Andrew Duncan Worthington
  • July 24, 2017
Kool A.D. discusses his debut novel, OK, the war on drugs, systemic destruction of left-leaning movements by the government, and the inability to escape American capitalism.
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Choosing Stories: On Partisanship, the Media, & American Ideology in 2016

  • Jerald Isseks
  • August 25, 2016
What kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
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Where God and the Devil Wheel Like Vultures: Report from El Paso

  • Tom Russell
  • September 30, 2009
There’s a story here, but it exists in illogical fragments, chaotic subtexts, and poverty economics cured in the meth-soaked algebra of need, greed and corruption. And eventually it all plays…
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Proofs of Concept for Legal Pot Packaging

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • September 25, 2009
Print Magazine, anticipating the legalization of pot in the US within 15 years or so, asked four design firms to come up with commercial packaging for marijuana cigarettes. Strømme Throndsen…
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