On Soul
I had been scanning the city, looking for something to remind me of the Kunming I once knew, and found the first continuity in this man and his madness.
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THE EARTH IS FOREVER GOOEY: a conversation with Jenny Zhang
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.
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Mark Nowak on Why We Write
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?
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Patterns and Breaking: A Conversation with Eduardo Corral
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.
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Pain Log #2
Pain Log #2: Letter to My Sister I listen to Arvo Pärt’s sacred music and think of his native Estonia, which reminds me of that Tallinn lawyer and historian whom I met one November at the American Academy in Rome. She wore an outlandish costume for our communal dinners—mauve taffeta suit with matching hat—and she
Stories Worth Telling: An Interview with Megha Majumdar
“I wanted the book to feel truthful and draw from what I have observed about society.”
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Witnessing the Unwitnessable: On Be Holding by Ross Gay
“We readers are watching Gay watching a video clip as he curates a personal museum exhibit that is part memoir and part historical monument.”
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Flip It And Reverse It: An Interview With Amy Sara Carroll
By all means, tear a page out of MQR’s Fall 2020 issue; to reorder something is not necessarily to destroy it
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Reading Mexican and Guatemalan Literatures in Translation: A Conversation Between Dr. Paul M. Worley and Dr. Rita M. Palacios
And so our work as literary critics, translators, and readers of Indigenous literatures is complex. We have to be aware of those essentialisms and the silences and violence they bring.