If You Drive the Car You Become the Car
Uncle Gerry has everything
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Interview // “Beyond Imagining What Above Would Fly”: A Conversation with Hajjar Baban
“It was easy to grieve what I had and so much harder to forgive what I didn’t, so I think I used the word a lot, forgiveness, or prayed toward it, even inwardly, without thinking much of how it’d be read outside of those mentions, or even within them. (It’s why, sometimes, you might catch me still saying I don’t know what forgiveness means.)”—Hajjar Baban
Mining for Black California Gold
This is a poem but also evidence. What did we, the children and grandchildren of migrants, see and not see that wasn’t testimony?
Interview// “Oh My God, My Lawn”: A Conversation with Nathan Hoks
“Millipedes are so different from our own morphology. They move in such a strange way. So a millipede is not only a metaphor for the poem, but it’s something that moves in a way that feels uncanny. We move too, but not like that! A millepede darts very quickly—that’s the poetry mind leaping. Its defense mechanism is to spiral into itself—that’s the poem’s defense mechanism.”—Nathan Hoks
2026 James Welch Prize
We are delighted to feature our 2026 James Welch Prize winners and finalists in our online folio.
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