Interviews
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Interviews,
Of Rhythm, Spatiality and Religion: A Conversation of Poetry with Paige Lewis and Kaveh Akbar
I say that to say all religion is practice, is an interpretation of faith, I guess my interest in religion tends to be more sociological and anthropological.– Kaveh Akbar
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Alexander Chee is Ready to Write His Next Five Novels
It was more liberating to invent a place and invent stories out of the stories I’ve heard.
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Journalism, Storytelling, and Lineage: An Interview with Cassandra Lane
I have always believed that “the personal is political and the political is personal.” So to make sense of it all, I have to distill these all-consuming horrors down into a drop that I can manage through first a few words, then a few sentences.
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Writing Our Way Through: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye
The role of the poet is to try to keep speaking truth and shining a little light. The role of the poet is to stand up for human beings whose weeping voices are not being heard. – Naomi Shihab Nye
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Indomitability of Spirit: Greg Marshall
This journey was about discovering how deception and love can go hand in hand in families and how that can be both a source of love and danger.
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Elizabeth Wetmore and the Usefulness of Righteous Anger
Unfocused rage, useless rage—that stuff’s not helpful. But rage that propels and compels? Rage that changes things, changes people . . . That’s good rage. That’s useful.
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Gathering through Language: A Conversation with Evie Shockley
How can I arrange them or build an infrastructure for them that will give other people that sense of their being connected?
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Contemplating weirdness, border consciousness and creative disruptions: How Fernando A. Flores tackles writing about the Borderlands and keeping the creative process flowing
You know, I only work on things if I feel I have a connection to it. I don’t try to be deliberately weird for being weird’s sake.