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October 21, 2016

Suzanne Stryk

Suzanne Stryk has exhibited her conceptual nature paintings in solo shows throughout the country, including the National Academy of Sciences (DC), the Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), and Gallery […]

October 17, 2016

KR Podcast with Ruth Ozeki

In this episode, Ruth Ozeki talks with Katharine Weber about her novels, her family story, and how the fictional moments in her 1995 autobiographical documentary film have since been mirrored […]

October 14, 2016

Anne Valente

Anne Valente is the author of the novel Our Heart Will Burn Us Down (William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2016) and the short story collection By Light We Knew Our Names […]

October 3, 2016

KR Podcast with Lee K. Abbott

In this month’s podcast, Lee K. Abbott talks to Nick White about his experience leading fiction workshops, writing for the lady on the bus, and why Dolly Parton is the […]

October 3, 2016

Sara Talpos

Sara Talpos is a science writer and poet living in Ann Arbor. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she taught writing classes for ten years. Her […]

September 23, 2016

John James

John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His work appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, Best […]

September 16, 2016

KR Podcast with Brenda Miller

In this month’s podcast, Brenda Miller talks to Kaitlyn Teer about exploring intuitive, contemplative, playful, and collaborative approaches to writing, making video essays and word-image hybrid texts, and experimenting with […]

September 12, 2016

Helen Betya Rubinstein

Helen Betya Rubinstein’s essays have appeared in Seneca Review, Paris Review Daily, Witness, and the New York Times, and her fiction in the Collagist, Ninth Letter, and Salt Hill. She […]

August 24, 2016

KR Podcast with Linda Gregerson

In this month’s podcast, poet Linda Gregerson talks with KR book review editor Corey Van Landingham about revisiting Ovid, throwing her voice, and poems that remain open to interference. Linda […]

August 22, 2016

David Bergman

David Bergman is the author most recently of The Poetry of Disturbance: The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry (Cambridge, 2015). His latest book of poetry is Fortunate Light (Midsummer Night’s […]

August 8, 2016

Safiya Sinclair

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her first full-length collection, Cannibal, won the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Her […]

July 27, 2016

KR Podcast with Stanley Plumly

In this month’s podcast, poet Stanley Plumly talks with contributing editor Maggie Smith about differences in writing poetry or prose, process and the importance of revision, and writing about Keats. Plumly […]