I would say that that’s one of the mysteries of art. That sense of being seen. It’s one thing to notice something else, it’s another thing for the speaker to be noticed.
Assembling the Bones: A Conversation with Arthur Sze Read More »
If you write urgently, honestly, I think that it can be easier to be surprised by your own thoughts, your own verse. And that surprise happens many times.
Meat to Reckon With: A Conversation with CM Burroughs Read More »
The Netherlands Carillon can only be understood against a background of two nations trying to reinvent themselves during the Cold War.
A Story of Dissonance: An Interview with Diederik Oostdijk Read More »
Truthfully, when I was about eight years old I got really obsessed with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and I got it in my mind that if I could write a play that they starred in, I could meet them.
An interview with Zara Lisbon Read More »
I feel that it is poetry that has led me into political action and not political action which has caused me to write poems.
RESIST: A 1968 Interview with Denise Levertov Read More »
You have reel—reeling is a part of the process of healing and they’re both equally valid. You know, we should be reeling because of what’s going on right now.
Reeling-Healing: A Conversation with Teresa Fellion Read More »
What still feels so traumatic to people in Norway was to outsiders just another bad event in a never-ending series of bad events.
An Interview with Ola Jostein Jørgensen, author of “No One Dreams of Oslo” Read More »
Sometimes when language is song-like and rhythmic, it’s because it’s coming from a core part of yourself that’s not interested in façade. It’s an inner layer. Like a hum, a vibrational hum in the throat
Sacred Service: A Review of “Without Protection” & a Conversation with Gala Mukomolova Read More »
At the time of the discussion, the tenor of the mainstream pro-Remain discourse – with honourable and important exceptions, most of which were and are clear-sightedly and with a heavy heart more anti-anti-Remain than pro–was to my mind at a particularly politically and tactically dunderheaded pitch, and this is reflected in my remarks. I stand by this critique.
In this latest installment of our Small Press Series for MQR Online, Archipelago’s editorial and development associate Emma Raddatz shares the ins and outs of working at a small press, why translations are so necessary in the American literary landscape, and recommends upcoming titles from the Archipelago catalogue.
Creating New Worlds with Language: An Interview with Emma Raddatz of Archipelago Books Read More »
