August 10, 2021
From the Caves–Thea Prieto
With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One new release that I hope gets all […]
September 9, 2019
Defying the Rules of Genre: A Conversation with Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry is the author of Desire: A Haunting and We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterweil. She […]
September 7, 2019
To Allow for Wonder: An Interview with Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko, Authors of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology
This post is the tenth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
September 2, 2019
“What it means to be quarantined”: A Conversation with Scott Chalupa
Scott Chalupa writes and teaches in Columbia, SC, where he earned an MFA at the University of South Carolina. His debut collection of pomes, Quarantine, was released this year by […]
August 29, 2019
“To evoke, provoke, engage and impact”: A Conversation with Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn is Editorial Director for The Adroit Journal, the author of the award-winning debut book of poetry Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, […]
August 27, 2019
“Poetry can knowingly privilege affect and beauty”: A Conversation with Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly’s most recent publications include The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the chapbook Hymn to Life. His poems have been widely anthologized and […]
August 5, 2019
The Most Direct Good: An Interview with Matthew Salesses, Author of Craft in the Real World
This post is the fifth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 12, 2019
So That’s How You Do It: An Interview with Michael Noll, Author of The Writer’s Field Guide to the Craft of Fiction
This post is the second in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
July 5, 2019
Craft Is Not Monolithic: An Interview with Luisa A. Igloria and Amanda Galvan Huynh, Editors of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making
Earlier this year, I embarked on one of the single most important endeavors of my literary career thus far: an interview series with the authors and editors of craft books. […]
June 18, 2019
“I’m coming at this in full force”: A Conversation with Jessica Fischoff of [PANK] Books
Jessica Fischoff is the Editor of [PANK] and author of the upcoming little book of poems, The Desperate Measure of Undoing (Across the Margin, 2019). She has a degree in […]
June 14, 2019
“Revision is part of the art”: A Conversation with Simone Muench
Simone Muench is the author of six books including Orange Crush (Sarabande), Wolf Centos (Sarabande), and Suture (Black Lawrence), a sonnet collection written with Dean Rader. She and Rader, along […]
June 6, 2019
This Party’s Dead: A Conversation with Erica Buist
Erica Buist is a freelance journalist. She writes mostly for The Guardian and Medium, but has also appeared in various literary magazines, The Times, The Mirror, The Debrief, and has been […]