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| Features, The Subvocal Zoo

The Subvocal Zoo

| The Subvocal Zoo

The Subvocal Zoo: William H. Matchett

| Interviews

Interview // The Land Broke Me Open: A Conversation with Judith Roche

| Commentary, Interviews, Recent

Taking Measure: Martha Silano and Laura Da’ in Conversation

| Visual Poetry

Fix’d Habitation

| Line Cook, Recent

Line Cook // This is Just to Say: On Cooking the Plums

| Interviews

Interview // Serious Books: A Conversation with John Martin

| Other Rooms, Recent

Downward into Appetite: on Christine Shan Shan Hou’s “Like It Never Happened”

| Interviews

Interview // Not Some Side Trip: A Conversation with Beatrix Gates

| Interviews

Interview // Any Life Is a Miracle: a Conversation with Ellen Bass

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open

| Commentary

Interview // A Singing School: A Conversation with Garrett Hongo