March 18, 2019
Making the Familiar Strange: A Conversation With Wendy Chin-Tanner
Wendy Chin-Tanner has published two poetry books with Sibling Rivalry Press, Turn (2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, and Anyone Will Tell You (April 2019). She […]
March 14, 2019
The Art of Attending to Our Surroundings: Self-Portrait with Dogwood by Christopher Merrill
Christopher Merrill has published six collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; many edited volumes and […]
March 13, 2019
“Dark comedy, violence, and haunted irony”: A Conversation with Christina Milletti
Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: a Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and is forthcoming from University of Massachusetts Press in March 2019. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have […]
February 25, 2019
“To balance the personal and the political”: A Conversation with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang’s new book of poems, OBIT, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) won a PEN Center USA Literary Award and a […]
February 20, 2019
Poet to Poet Interview: Rajiv Mohabir and Craig Santos Perez
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press, 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books, 2016, winner of the Four […]
February 14, 2019
“The impossible becomes possible with hybrid forms”: A Conversation with Katie Farris
Katie Farris is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and translator. She is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, (Marick Press, 2011) and the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, 2017), […]
January 30, 2019
On Elisa Gabbert’s Lydia Davis and Completeness
I like to finish things, which is a failure; as James Richardson maintains in one of his (amazing) aphorisms, all stones are broken stones and to pretend otherwise is willful folly. I’ve […]
January 28, 2019
Both Genres Depend on High Stakes: A Conversation with Erica Wright on Poetry and Crime Fiction
Erica Wright writes both poetry and crime fiction. Wright’s first crime novel was one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books for Summer 2014, and her most recent work of […]
January 17, 2019
“What’s at stake is the production of knowledge”: A Conversation with Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and today teaches Latinx literature and creative writing […]
January 12, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Diane Goettel of Black Lawrence Press
Diane Goettel is the Executive Editor of Black Lawrence Press and founding editor of Sapling. As an undergraduate student, Diane studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. After receiving her […]
December 31, 2018
Publisher Spotlight: Kristy Bowen of Dancing Girl Press & Studio
A writer and visual artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of several book, chapbook and zine projects, including major characters in minor films (Sundress Publications, 2015), the shared properties of […]
December 17, 2018
“Transformed this way into your own atlas of being”: A Conversation with Gillian Cummings
Gillian Cummings is the author of The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, selected by John Yau as the winner of the 2018 Colorado Prize for Poetry (The Center for Literary Publishing […]