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

   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

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

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

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

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,

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

“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

‘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,

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

I can’t recall how Kate Litterer and I initially found each other in the dense mist of online poetry, but think of it this way: it’s 2001 and we’re on

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

Maggie Dietz, That Kind of Happy Groundhog’s Day has passed and spring has come early. The poet, Maggie Dietz, and I walk from her graduate class in Boston University’s historic

I read Chloe Caldwell's novella, WOMEN, for the first time last spring. I was still getting used to living alone after my boyfriend suddenly broke up with me and moved

Mona Awad’s new book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, is a bold, heartbreaking and humorous story of one woman's struggle with her weight in a culture that

by Aliza Sajjad Last week I fangirled. And no, it was not over some dreamy boyband or a heartthrob with nicely parted hair. Recently that piercing, wide-eyed excitement has been

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