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 21, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX [books]
Geoffrey Gatza is an award winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, a small press in Buffalo, NY and was named by the Huffington Post […]
June 20, 2019
Repetition Is Political: On Walking Alone, “I Have a Dream,” and Morgan Parker
In 2016, I attended a weeknight concert at the Showbox in Downtown Seattle that got me thinking about walking as a political act. The headliner that night was riot grrrl […]
June 19, 2019
Ken Kesey’s “Keyhole of Literature”
In an essay published in The New York Times in 1989 (incidentally, the year I was born), Ken Kesey recounts a writing lesson he once received from short story writer […]
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 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 17, 2019
Eddie Schmidt Recommends: an Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated TV/Filmmaker Tells You What to Watch
Eddie Schmidt is an Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, as well as a showrunner and director of acclaimed nonfiction series. Six of his projects have premiered at the Sundance […]
June 15, 2019
Some Ruminations on the Current Moment
According to recent news reports, the “friendship tree” that Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump planted together last year on the White House lawn has died. [Please insert your witty quip […]
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 13, 2019
Open Secrets: Alyssa’s Secret, Christina Rossetti, and the Closet
The challenge was to create a commercial for a new brand of perfume. Expectations were high: not only were the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5 expected to concoct, bottle, […]
June 12, 2019
Eric J. Sundquist’s To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
Often as conceptually layered as the texts it considers, for a current project I recently looked again at To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1994), Eric […]
June 10, 2019
Teilhard, Eugenics, and Where We are Now.
Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)—the great evolutionary theologian, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest—continues to be a point of contention for many thinkers concerned with theology, evolution, and their relationship. Certainly I agree […]