Interview // Irregular Life: A Conversation with Brandon Brown
We talked about Bernadette Mayer, experimental writing, and courting uncertainty.
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Conversations between writers about their art and craft.
Interview // “Emotional Realities that Expand in the White Space”: A Conversation with Natalee Cruz
“The constant translations and riffs were my attempts to understand my father.”
Interview // The Place of Return: Talking Story with Noʻu Revilla
“The page, for me, is all about the power of return.”
Interview // “Poems are Considerate Objects”: A Conversation with Claudia Castro Luna
“The moment we give up showing a different way of being with language and the imagination, we have lost.”
Interview // “Openings out of the Overlooked”: A Conversation Between Jenny Xie & Paul Hlava Ceballos
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
Interview // “Abject Uncertainty”: A Conversation Between Jeff Alessandrelli & Ashley Yang Thompson
“The important thing is that the work conveys felt truth.”
Interview // “The Quiet Dark”: A Conversation Between Jennifer S. Cheng & Tanya Holtland
“The dark, for me, is always a place of brimming; even when it is anguishing and unbearable. . .”
Interview // “Mechanics of the Haunt”: A Conversation with Clara Burghelea
“At times, forgetting is essential. In the poem, that refers to the way one person, a mother, a woman, part of a traditional family where roles and expectations are clearly cut, needs to forget about that part of hers in order to breathe, to tend to the little things that make her happy—like doing her nails—to keep it going. We are a multitude of things, after all.”
Interview // Transformation through Story: Heather Cahoon’s Horsefly Dress
Conducted by Jennifer Elise Foerster
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.”