Eloise Grills
The opening chords of Jessie’s Girl are the world cumming into the world’s mouth The opening chords of Jessie’s Girl are watching me with those eyes
INTERVIEW | DIA FELIX IN CONVERSATION WITH VI KHI NAO
VI KHI NAO: How long did it take you to write You You You? DIA FELIX: Hmm, I think most of it was pretty fast, in a romantic whirlwind. Then
Interview | Stacey Tran in conversation with Vi Khi Nao.
Let’s begin by knitting Stitching The haiku is like cutting fabric How fake is your haiku? To what degree of fakeness? And, did you measure? You make pretty extraordinary
Interview | Doretta Lau
Doretta Lau’s short story collection How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? provides a feeling of homecoming. The stories take place between Vancouver, New York, and Hong
Interview | Bettina Judd
Aba Micah Collins-Sibley: I became familiar with you and your work when you read at Smith College in Spring 2015, but if you were to attempt the, perhaps impossible, task
Interview | Cara Benedetto
Cara Benedetto is an artist who uses writing to get it going. She lives in Virginia because that's where the bumper lovers stick. She currently lives for learning environments. LA
Interview | T Kira Madden
Ann Ward: First of all, hey! I'm so happy to be doing this with you guys--you are two women I have so much love and respect for; two truly badass,
Interview | Stefan Kiesbye
I was first introduced to Stefan Kiesbye’s work in a seminar on the novella at UMass Amherst’s MFA program. While we were reading Next Door Lived a Girl, my house
Interview | MK Chavez: On Poetry, Trauma, and How Art Becomes a Gift
“When I said I wanted a wedding gown, I meant/I am a wild beast, three leaps of the gazelle,” the poet Maria Kaylib Chavez, known as MK Chavez, writes in “Ursa
The Future Has Already Happened: A Review of Kids in Triage by Kilby Smith-McGregor
by Aaron Boothby “How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night?” (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Ch.
Sofia Banzhaf & Lucy K Shaw In Conversation
‘VIEWS’: On writing Toronto "Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve,
Interview | Tracy K. Smith
For over a decade, Tracy K. Smith has enamored readers and writers with her language and narrative and the ease of which she displays her mastery of both, manipulating them
Interview | Derrick Austin
In early April, Derrick Austin and I discussed his debut book of poems, Trouble the Water. From queerness, to blackness, to Caravaggio, to R&B singers, Austin’s sorcery extends from his
Interview | Sigitas Parulskis
The latest novel by Lithuania’s Sigitas Parulskis breaks new ground both for the author and for his readers. Tamsa ir partneriai (Darkness & Co., Alma Littera, 2012) is considered to