Interviews
Interviews,
Primal Connection: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang
“As a poet, I often feel a primal connection to something unknowable that came before me, and whether it’s obvious or not, it seems to me it’s what makes me or anyone else as much a creature as an animal.”
Interviews,
Touched by the Ordinary: Kamol Karmakar on Writing from Life’s Smallest Shocks
Poetry becomes my source of hope when all else seems hopeless.
Interviews,
Interview: Lawrence Wright on The Human Scale, the Rise of AI, and The Looming Tower 25 Years Later
Research is always a factor, even in my fiction. I want the reader to think, ‘oh, this could really happen,’ or it really did happen, or ‘it feels very real.’
Interviews,
“Their Own Life Force:” An Interview with Deb Olin Unferth
As a vegan, I feel like animals have their own independent life force. I don’t feel like I have any right to take lives. I knew I wanted to write about an animal that was so thoroughly abused that we don’t understand.
Interviews,
Confronting Poetry and the Self: A Conversation with Danez Smith
I think part of our supreme duty as poets is to offer language for what was formerly unutterable to people.
Interviews,
Infinite Grief Infinite Love Finite Life: A Conversation with ire’ne lara silva
My other motto is, no more half assing. “Whole ass or nothing.”
Interviews,
Wading Through Identity: Tracing lineage in Saúl Hernández’s poetry in How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters
Writing about lineage means untangling, not only your experiences, but the experiences of the generations before.
Interviews,
“Exit Wounds”: Discussing the Trajectory of Mandy Shunnarah’s Poetry in We Had Mansions
I kept coming back to this idea of exit wounds, both as a literal trajectory through my father’s skull and metaphorically as in what it means for the people who are left behind.