June 26, 2019
Music and Silence: A Conversation with Kelly J. Beard
Kelly J. Beard’s first full-length memoir, An Imperfect Rapture, won the 2017 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Before becoming an author, Kelly practiced employment discrimination law in the […]
June 25, 2019
Risk and Reward: A Conversation with Andrew Farkas
Andrew Farkas is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (KERNPUNKT Press), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX Books) and Self-Titled Debut (Subito Press). His work has […]
June 24, 2019
On the Language of “Our Place”: A Tribute to Quaint
Growing up, my parents never had a “place.” Meaning they did not have a restaurant to which they could escape, just the two of them. Meaning that using “place” […]
June 18, 2019
“To create a world of belief”: A Conversation with Adrian Gibbons Koesters
Adrian Gibbons Koesters is a novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, Berkely Review, Prairie Schooner, 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, […]
June 10, 2019
A Decade of CantoMundo: In Conversation with Celeste Guzman Mendoza & Deborah Paredez
This past weekend was the last year of a 10-year term for Co-Directors Celeste Guzman Mendoza and Deborah Paredez, who along with Carmen Tafolla, Norma E. Cantú and Pablo Martínez […]
June 5, 2019
“Song of Myself,” the Beer
“Sobriety,” Walt Whitman wrote in 1842, is “that virtue which every mother and father prays nightly” will reside “in the character of their sons.” Tell that to Bell’s Brewery, which […]
May 31, 2019
Why American Poets Ought to Translate More Poems
As literary translators go, I am mostly a fraud, and thus beset by a fear that all frauds—from TV psychics to reality TV presidents—share: to be exposed by those who […]
May 31, 2019
Awkward Family Photos
I love to visit Awkward Family Photos. It’s a site heavy on the nostalgia. Each new photograph carries with it reminders of the moments you want to remember and maybe […]
May 21, 2019
“BEFORE THE THOUGHT HAS TIME TO CRYSTALLIZE”: HISTORY, TRANSLATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN H.D.’S HELEN IN EGYPT
Introduction In recent literary scholarship, one sees a renewed interest in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt, particularly its daring feminist reading of history. This book-length poem is undoubtedly revolutionary in its […]
May 20, 2019
The Van Gogh Museum’s 10 Lessons for Writers
In April, I traveled to Amsterdam for a week (I know, my life is so hard), where I spent an afternoon in the Van Gogh Museum. The collection inspired me […]
May 17, 2019
“Some Assembly Required”: Les Figues Press, Artistic Community, and the Printed Book as an Occasion for Dialogue
Introduction For the past few decades, readers have witnessed a proliferation of small feminist presses run by women. These publishing projects, which include Leslie Scalapino’s O Books, Lyn Hejinian’s Tuumba […]
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 […]