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January 13, 2020

Daphne Palasi Andreades

Daphne Palasi Andreades is a writer from Queens, New York. Her short stories have been featured in Joyland, Kweli Journal, and Encounters. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s […]

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December 18, 2019

Adam Giannelli

Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di […]

December 9, 2019

Diane Glancy

Diane Glancy teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her latest books are The Collector of Bodies, Concern for Syria and the Middle East, It […]

November 4, 2019

So Mayer

So Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and of several collections of poetry, most recently jacked a kaddish (Litmus Publishing, 2018), kaolin […]

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October 21, 2019

Edwin Alanís-García

Edwin Alanís-García is the author of the chapbook Galería (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019). His poetry has appeared in Acentos Review, Periphery, SOMOS, and Tupelo Quarterly. He received an MFA in […]

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October 7, 2019

Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in Nation, Georgia Review, Brick, Witness, American Poetry Review, POETRY, and others. She is the author of the full-length collections Houses […]

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September 23, 2019

Naoko Fujimoto

Naoko Fujimoto’s forthcoming books are Where I Was Born, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books (Spring, 2019) and Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (Winter, 2019). She […]

September 20, 2019

KR Podcast with Emily Jungmin Yoon

Emily Jungmin Yoon and Eloisa Amezcua talk about failures as openings to possibilities, the poet’s work of filling in history’s gaps, and Emily’s poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our […]

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September 10, 2019

Brian Trapp

Brian Trapp teaches creative writing and disability studies at the University of Oregon, where he directs the Kidd Creative Writing Workshops. His fiction and essays have been published in the […]

August 27, 2019

KR Podcast with Shara McCallum

Poet Shara McCallum talks to KR’s Anna Duke Reach about memory as an afterlife and reconstructing those we’ve lost through the language we use. Shara McCallum was born in Jamaica […]

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August 19, 2019

Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of four books of poetry and a critical study of the […]

August 8, 2019

KR Podcast with Ed Skoog

Want to know what the past felt like? Read the poems. Kenyon College visiting assistant professor of English Matt Suazo catches up with Ed Skoog about New Orleans, cooperating with […]