Q&A with Poetry Contributor Marianne Chan

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Marianne Chan

"Editing has helped my writing because reading poems only makes me want to read more poems and write more poems and see, hear, and taste more poems—and learn more about what makes poetry poetry."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrew Wingfield

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrew Wingfield

"Artists embrace the challenge of making the familiar new again by uncovering what is unique in their experience and resisting the constant temptation to succumb to cliché."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Cady Vishniac

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Cady Vishniac

"It’s about the individual, and my individual tendency is to ramble."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Anne Champion

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Anne Champion

"I think that poetry, no matter what its topic is, makes us reach for hope."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Dahlia Seroussi

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Dahlia Seroussi

"As someone who is pretty attached to reality, it felt very transgressive to “write away” from my experience—but it was also liberating."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jacob Sunderlin

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jacob Sunderlin

"But form is best for me when it’s the most invisible, and the single-stanza whoosh is somehow both almost-invisible in its proximity to prose as well as it is hyper-visible in its looking like a brick wall."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Sharon Dilworth

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Sharon Dilworth

"I tend to transform and twist the more immediate narratives into something unrecognizable from reality. Over time nostalgia pushes me toward the truth."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrea Cheatham

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Andrea Cheatham

"If anything, the American Dream in this story is as elusive for me, my grandmother, and Catherine as it was for Gatsby. You never reach it, or never feel yourself to have reached it. It only exists as a possibility, not really as a clean and finished fact.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Eric Cruz

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Eric Cruz

"This newness is incremental and barely perceptible in real time, but the speaker in each section conveys an understanding and, I think, an appreciation for their transformation.

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Joannie Stangeland

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Joannie Stangeland

"For example, “shroud, shrugged” really takes some time to say out loud, because you have to use your whole mouth."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Devi Laskar

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Devi Laskar

"I wanted to write a collage poem about how people have a habit of ranking things—the items on their bucket lists, their favorite foods, their favorite sports teams."

Interview Excerpt: Lori Ostlund

Interview Excerpt: Lori Ostlund

Once, as we passed Sauk Centre on a rare family outing, my father said to me, "You know that Sinclair Lewis got run out of town for his books. Maybe someday you'll write a book that gets you run out of town."

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Elizabeth Cook

Q&A with Nonfiction Contributor Elizabeth Cook

"In this essay, my limited understanding of the internet means that Google becomes the mystical made prosaic. I don’t understand Google, and maybe I fear it, but the search engine is like an external self or a communal self without a body." 

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Sasha West

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Sasha West

"I think all loss has an echo and an endlessness."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jennifer Newhouse

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Jennifer Newhouse

"I think as a society, we're always trying to be useful, to be helpful, but so often, our loved ones — in whatever ways they are suffering — just want to know they're not alone. True presence is courageous."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kathryn Smith

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kathryn Smith

"The relationships between animals can seem quite savage when viewed up close. They become even more savage when a child is also watching and asks why."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Connie Pan

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Connie Pan

"The tricky part of writing, for me, is discovering a proactive balance of solitude and community and finding time to write while working to sustain my dream life."

Review of Invisible Men by Eric Freeze

Review of Invisible Men by Eric Freeze

Invisible Men is an invitation to look into the hearts of characters who feel alone. 

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kallie Falandays

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Kallie Falandays

"I do believe in the power of the image, and I think an immense amount of blossoming can occur between two images."

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Patrick Kindig

Q&A with Poetry Contributor Patrick Kindig

"If you only read one writer, you’ll write things that sound like that writer. If you read a variety of writers you’ll produce work that’s both more idiosyncratic and more interesting."

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