February 28, 2019
“At the mercy of language”: A Conversation with Elizabeth A.I. Powell
Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner, selected by C.K. Williams. Her second book of poems, Willy Loman’s Reckless […]
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), […]
February 5, 2019
Mina Loy’s Poetics of Rupture & Resistance: A Retrospective
Grammar as Causation and Ideology During her lifetime, Mina Loy was active as a painter, actress, writer, poet, and proponent of the decorative arts. Although working across genres and mediums, […]
February 5, 2019
Mixtape VI: The Aha Moment & When It Switches {On}
After taking some time away from this space to complete a few projects, I thought what better way to return than to share a new mixtape for a new […]
January 25, 2019
THE PAGE AS A VISUAL FIELD: NEW BOOKS BY ASIYA WADUD, GRACIE LEAVITT, & EVE EWING
IN A RECENT ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, Carol Ann Johnston notes that “The early avant-garde’s play with poetic language as visual art grasped the change in poetic emphasis […]
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 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 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, […]