Interview // “We work the materials, but they also work us”: A Conversation With Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
“Often, as I attempt to solve literary problems, I find my mind working not in language, but in music or in space.”
Author: Alexa Luborsky
Interview // An Elegy of Resistance: A Conversation with Charles Valle
“It’s interesting to me how when we think of the dead and project their presence in our lives, the projections often point to events or milestones that the dead will not experience with us. Birthdays, holidays, first days of school, etc. There were so many events in 2020 that I’m glad Vivian never had to endure.”
Interview // Post Romantic: A Conversation With Kathleen Flenniken
“Marrying then and now, that’s a ploy to be sensible, to recognize in my childhood-self the simplification and wishful thinking, to overlay some hard truth, and to acknowledge that I’m chained to this country by love.”
Repair
“It isn’t enough to hold someone’s sorrow in your body till it ferments into song. Witnessing isn’t enough. You must become the sorrow.”—an essay by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage