National Poetry Month: Poetry as Awareness
How can poetry set you free? Author Kate Cayley answers our National Poetry Month series question with a query of her own: can poetry’s request for our acute attention be […]
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National Poetry Month: Poetry as Empowerment
How can poetry set you free? Our National Poetry Month series continues with a response by Therese Estacion on how poetry reflects the most vulnerable parts of our humanity and […]
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How can poetry set you free? The second response in our National Poetry Month series comes from author Hasan Namir who explores freedom from a lens of self-discovery and self-actualization. […]
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How can poetry set you free? Shannon Webb-Campbell starts off our National Poetry Month series with mesmerizing words on the magic of poems. Prepare to be swept away: “Poetry is […]
Continue reading“Pleasure is a job sometimes”: In Conversation with River Halen
Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with River Halen, author of Dream Rooms. Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal […]
Continue reading“No straight lines in nature”: In Conversation with Alessandra Naccarato
Today, we are thrilled to be in conversation with Alessandra Naccarato, author of Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene. Imminent Domains invites readers to join a contemplation of survival—our own, […]
Continue reading“Elevate the splits and stains”: In Conversation with Kate Hargreaves
Today, we are delighted to be in conversation with Kate Hargreaves, author of tend. A much anticipated follow-up to Leak, tend is a visceral and playful poetry collection which explores […]
Continue reading“Creatures like ourselves”: In Conversation with Cary Fagan
Today, we are featuring our interview with award-winning author Cary Fagan about his new novel, The Animals. A realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a […]
Continue reading“To choose against silence”: In Conversation with Adebe DeRango-Adem
Today, we are in conversation with Adebe DeRango-Adem, author of Vox Humana, a collection of poetry driven by a sense of political urgency to probe the ethics of agency in a world […]
Continue readingWIT Month 2022: Anne Cathrine Bomann and Caroline Waight on Agatha
It’s August, and that means Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) is here at last! Throughout the month, we will be speaking with author-translator duos, getting the lowdown on what it […]
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