August 30, 2018
Present in Process: An Interview with Caryl Pagel
Caryl Pagel’s vision has shaped not only her own poems, essays, books, and chapbooks, but two presses, a literary magazine, and now a new literary fellowship focused on inclusion, equity, […]
May 7, 2018
Nepantla: An Anthology (Q&A with Editor Christopher Soto)
To celebrate the release of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, published by Nightboat Books, anthology editor Christopher Soto and I discussed both the editing process and […]
March 7, 2018
Reading for No, Reading for Yes
I’m deep in the Submittable queue of submissions for the literary journal I edit, and as always, I’m pulled in opposing directions. I want to work quickly so I can […]
August 15, 2017
Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph–On Being Edited
Over at Lit Hub I’ve been reading acclaimed editor Terry McDonell’s pieces on the nuances of editing with interest; all of the pieces are adapted from his new book The […]
April 12, 2017
Honoring Our Editors
At my last CantoMundo retreat in the summer of 2015, I wrote a poem called “Matarose Tags G-Dragon on the 7” which freed, rather than mourned, the many complexities and […]