May 23, 2019
The Sheer Will to Disrupt: A Conversation With Dylan Krieger
Dylan Krieger is a force in contemporary poetry. A self-described “divining rod of ungodly proportions,” Krieger has written Giving Godhead (Delete, 2017), which the New York Times declared, “the best […]
May 13, 2019
“Generations of poetry bound together”: A Conversation with Native Voices Co-Editors CMarie Fuhrman & Dean Rader
CMarie Fuhrman is the co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations (Tupelo 2019) and author of poetry and nonfiction that has appeared in multiple journals including Cutthroat […]
April 30, 2019
“Beyond the self”: A Conversation with Deborah Landau
Deborah Landau’s fourth book of poems, Soft Targets, is out this spring. Her previous collections are The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour, both Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon […]
April 29, 2019
Public by Varying Degrees: Understanding Audience in Relation to Emily Dickinson’s Artistic Subject
Introduction Emily Dickinson’s attitude toward the literary marketplace has been widely contested by critics, who portray her as both shy poetess and self-aware genius in search of literary immortality. Given […]
April 28, 2019
“An artistic harmonious balance between the reader’s mind and the author’s mind”: Vladimir Nabokov’s Literary Criticism as a Performance of Reading Practices
Introduction All too often, readers approach a writer’s forays into literary criticism as a source of insight about that individual’s tastes, aesthetic predispositions, and theoretical assumptions about literature. This type […]
April 26, 2019
“Silences cultivate a kind of cognitive dance between reader and poem”: A Conversation with Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006), and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is […]
April 25, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Leland Cheuk of 7.13 Books
A MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle Fellow, Leland Cheuk is the author of three books, most recently, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN, forthcoming from C&R Press in September 2019. His […]
April 20, 2019
On Slow Reading, Considering, and Consuming
It’s long been understood that going to an art museum doesn’t necessarily mean one desires to look at art, at least not for prolonged, potentially edifying periods. Articles like Artnet’s […]
April 12, 2019
“Rape is Not Just a Girl Problem”: A Conversation With Melissa Ostrom
Melissa Ostrom has written two YA novels, The Beloved Wild (Feiwel & Friends, March 2018) and Unleaving (Feiwel & Friends, March 2019). Her writing has also appeared in The Florida […]
April 11, 2019
“This thing I use to stay alive” – An Interview with Poet Husnaa Hashim
Husnaa Hashim is the author of Honey Sequence published by The Head & The Hand, a nonprofit, independent publishing company and writers’ workshop based in Philadelphia. She was the 2017-2018 Youth […]
April 4, 2019
Putting at Issue the Very Subject of Language: A Conversation With Julie Tetel
Julie Tetel has made a career out of studying the structures of human connection, whether it be through her many romance novels or her celebrated scholarly works on linguistics. Tetel […]
April 3, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean
Janaka Stucky is a mystic poet, performer, and founding editor of the award-winning press, Black Ocean. He is the author of four poetry collections, is a two-time National Haiku Champion, […]