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 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 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 […]
January 2, 2019
Textual Difficulty: A Performance of Otherness & Difference
In her hybrid text The End of the Sentimental Journey, Sarah Vap asserts that “we spend our lives both translating into and refusing, to some degree or another, (the nonexistent) […]
December 26, 2018
“Let Her Balance on Nothing”: Notes on Victimization, Complicity, & the Gaze
Maria Lugones observes that “through traveling to other people’s ‘worlds’ we discover there are ‘worlds’ in which those who are the victims of arrogant perception are really subjects, lively beings, […]
December 13, 2018
On Eckes, Harvey and Myles
It sounds like a middling 70’s folk rock act, right? Maybe in some alternate universe it is a middling 70’s folk rock act, but in my own universe it’s been […]
December 11, 2018
“We transform among chaos”: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and […]
November 6, 2018
In the U.S. Today
Our political discourse proceeds in a mode of polarized vituperation, populist nationalism infects the air we breathe, racist language that many thought had gone the way of segregated bathrooms continues […]
October 30, 2018
As Midterm Elections Approach, Poets Respond
For almost a year now, I’ve been teaching at The Speakeasy Project, where I serve as a Poetry Mentor. I have never in my life enjoyed this kind of workshop experience as […]
October 26, 2018
Improvisation: New Orleans’s Gift to the Modern World
Since the cave-dwellers of Lascaux shaped their drawings to conform to the bulges and crannies of their cave walls, improvisation has always been with us. But if there is a […]