“It can be lonely to work from a liminal space, but I think it allows me to go deeper, to uncover the unnameable, the wild. Even though it can be uncomfortable, I’m most comfortable working there.”
Uncovering the Unnameable: An Interview with Elizabeth Schmuhl Read More »
“Caregiving isn’t just doing things for someone, it is an attitude toward the doing and toward the person and the person’s body. It’s a turning toward the other.”
On Return & Redemption: Ed Madden in Conversation with Kwame Dawes Read More »
Can death be dignified? And for whom—the person dying, or the living who witness and endure the loss, reflecting on their own turns to come?
“On Dignity,” by DeWitt Henry Read More »
“When working with or caring for someone with health or memory issues, the situation is often variable and fluid, and can change without warning. Caregivers need to be flexible. That’s how I approached this series of paintings: fluid and flexible, while using a variety of techniques to make marks on the paper.”
“Where the Hell Did My Memory Go?” An Interview with Lori Racicot Read More »
Johnson comments on the circumstances that informed many of the poems in the narrative, autobiographical book: watching films with her parents; learning about her father’s work as a bomber pilot in the Air Force during Cold War; and working with her parents’ principal and patient caregiver, Donna.
Triptych in Color: On Caroline Johnson’s “The Caregiver” Read More »
“Experimental literary fiction appeals to a smaller subset of readers than more traditional commercial fiction, and being a small, agile, independent press means we can publish a wider range of books without taking a big financial risk each time.”
Essential Enthusiasm: An Interview with Michelle Dotter of Dzanc Books Read More »
The novel takes the reader on a tour of a not-too-distant American past, when fear was weaponized and righteous rage boiled over. Smyer’s debut explores themes of the self in chaos; the prose is clean as bone and the anger is focused and piercing.
Rage In America Is Not New: On Adam Smyer’s “Knucklehead” Read More »
The brilliance of Millennial Roost is Pearson’s ability to explore dark, difficult conversations, but with the consideration and wherewithal to do so without perpetuating pain.
The Epistolary Ambivalence: On Balance in Dustin Pearson’s “Millennial Roost” Read More »
The feat of the poet to narrate their own departure from this conscious earth is rare and poignant. As distorted and masticated as the imagery is, Ritvo is a reliable guide, treading equally the known world, the unknown, and the ethereal.
Until It Is One Round Tail: On Max Ritvo’s “The Final Voicemails” Read More »
This absence of certitude about home—what it is, where it is, whether it is a noun or a verb, a being or a becoming—runs through the various essays, fictions, and poems that Buchanan collects in the Go Home! anthology.
Diasporic Intimacies: On Reading “Go Home!” Read More »
