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Gendered power dynamics, social pressures, & group think: Xenobe Purvis on her debut novel THE HOUNDING
Writer and literary researcher Xenobe Purvis in conversation with Isabelle Sakelaris about her debut novel THE HOUNDING […]
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kathy wu discusses their debut book SHE WILL LAST AS LONG AS STONES
Photo by Jonathan Karp kathy wu is an artist, poet, designer, and educator working across language, computation, books, and fiber. They currently teach at RISD Graphic Design. Her debut book, She Will Last as Long […]
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The roles of language in ritual & tradition: Anne Waldman on her new book MESOPOTOPIA
Poet, professor, performer, librettist and cultural activist Anne Waldman is the author, most recently of Mesopotopia, (Penguin, 2025), and Archivist Scissors (Staircase Books, 2025). The Grammy-nominated opera / movie Black Lodge, with music by composer David […]
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Sensuality, emotional resilience, & longing for connection: Suzanne Barbezat on her book FRIDA KAHLO’s LOVE LETTERS
Suzanne Barbezat Suzanne Barbezat is a writer specializing in Mexico travel, culture and food. She is the author of Frida Kahlo at Home (Frances Lincoln, 2016), a book that explores the influence of Mexican […]
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The interstice between the real & the written in THE TIME OF THE NOVEL
Wendy’s Subway Poet and educator Lara Mimosa Montes plumbs the interstice between the real and the written in her debut fiction work, The Time of the Novel. The eleventh publication in Wendy’s Subway’s “Passage” series, […]
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The poetic interrogations of Jennifer Chang’s AN AUTHENTIC LIFE
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The American Poetry […]
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OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN AN ARM FIXED TO A WING
OLIVIA CLARE FRIEDMAN’s AN ARM FIXED TO A WING Photo credit: Aaron Mayes / UNLV Photo Services Olivia Clare Friedman is the author of a novel, Here Lies, a short story collection, Disasters in the […]
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DOBBY GIBSON HOLD EVERYTHING
Dobby Gibson is the author of Polar (Alice James Books), which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish (Graywolf Press); It Becomes You (Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award; Little Glass […]
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Jehanne Dubrow’s explorations of being a modern military spouse in CIVILIANS
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of ten collections of poetry and three books of creative nonfiction. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Life in Poetry, The […]
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JoAnna Novak on DOMESTIREXIA
JoAnna Novak is a writer of memoir, fiction, and non-fiction. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest, and her essay “My $1000 Anxiety Attack” was anthologized in About […]
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The vital restlessness of MARGARET ROSS
Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare (Omnidawn, 2015) and Saturday (The Song Cave, 2024). Her poems and translations have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Yale […]
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Molly McGhee on JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND
Molly McGhee’s debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind was published in 2023 by Astra House. McGhee earned her M.F.A in fiction at Columbia University, where she currently teaches undergraduates. She has also worked in […]
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Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Didi Jackson is a poet and professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. The recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and a finalist for the Meringoff […]
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Sarah Ghazal Ali discusses THEOPHANIES
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan Sarah Ghazal Ali is a poet, editor, and professor. Her debut poetry collection, Theophanies, published by Alice James Books, was named Editor’s Choice by the press in 2022. A Stadler […]
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CINDY JUYOUNG OK on WARD TOWARD
Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey Cindy Juyoung Ok is a writer, editor, and professor of poetry. Her debut poetry collection, Ward Toward, was published by Yale University Press as a part of the institution’s Series […]
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The persuasive intuitions of ANNE CARSON
Photo by Peter Smith Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator. Her new book, Wrong Norma, is “a stunning edition with images created by Carson. Several of the twenty-five startling poetic […]
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MARY JO BANG isn’t lost in translation
Photo by Carly Ann Faye Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine poetry books, most recently A Film in Which I Play Everyone (2023), published by Graywolf Press. She has also published translations of […]
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Why CHRISTOPHER BREAN MURRAY lies to tell truths
Christopher Brean Murray’s book, Black Observatory (Milkweed Editions), was chosen by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. It was listed by The New York Public Library as one […]
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Poet Paisley Rekdal discusses her book WEST: A TRANSLATION
(Description courtesy Copper Canyon Press): In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation—an unflinching hybrid […]
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The linguistic imageries of GABRIELLE BATES
Photo by Liesa Cole Gabrielle Bates is the author of the poetry collection Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), recommended by the New York Times Book Review and named by the Chicago Review of Books […]