I think what gave me the ability to be able to talk about the event is imagining it and imbuing that with my present ideas of lyric imagination and surrealism. I didn’t know what surrealism was when I was five, but I have the material to imagine it as surreal now.
Creating Memory: An Interview with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo Read More »
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Liminal Creations: An Interview with The Cupboard Pamphlet Read More »
The first book that I wrote when I was vastly younger than I am now was based on my own family, but the point of view it took was my mother’s, a character, whom I would offer was often at odds with in real life. So I wanted to make that jump as something that writing could do, and I think I got some of that idea from Chekhov, whose writing I loved.
Moving the Perspective: An Interview with Joan Silber Read More »
When it came to Darren’s ascent/descent, I wanted to throw into question what it means to win if you’re losing parts of yourself along the way. Or, stated differently, what the cost of success is, and how much people, especially Black and brown people, need to pay in order to achieve it.
Race and the Startup Ecosystem: An Interview with Mateo Askaripour Read More »
It’s true that he wanted to be inside and outside the art world at the same time, but he was on public performance whenever he was out.
On The Grandfather of Pop Art: An Interview with Diane Kirkpatrick Read More »
I wanted some people that I didn’t personally know either and just thought, well, each one of these people has a mother who may or may not still be with us, who may be forced to still live in the area where they lost their child, someplace that they walk past every day. And they’re out of our hands.
“Can Poetry Hurt Us?”: An Interview with Patricia Smith Read More »
My writing can’t get away from the space in which it’s possible to commune with the dead, to have a second chance reckoning with those who are gone. I believe in hauntings, but I’m not entirely sure I believe in an afterlife. My writing likes to keep that door open all the time.
The Privacy of Magic: An Interview with Tea Obreht Read More »
We seek out poetry because we seek in this completely subjective form some kernel of beauty and truth. And so for me, friendship is poetic, and it is lyric, because it does that, and it is mysterious why when a friend mirrors to you what they think you are – it works.
THE EARTH IS FOREVER GOOEY: a conversation with Jenny Zhang Read More »
If we want our writing to have agency, if we want it to be part of the struggle to make a new and better world, I think it’s important to take a step back and examine our motivations as writers. How does the capitalist system influence the choices we make as writers?
Mark Nowak on Why We Write Read More »
I think of poetry as a conversation that started way before me that I am now as a practicing poet, that you are joining as a practicing poet, that will continue without us.
Patterns and Breaking: A Conversation with Eduardo Corral Read More »
