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Intro by Hasanthinka Sirisena
It’s strange to think back and reflect on how I’ve come to know Tomás Q. Morín, Wendy S. Walters, and Dionne Irving. It feels as if I’ve never not known them.
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C.J.A.
Things of ValueA review of four new books by C.J.A. “In my recent reading practice, I have been paying almost obsessive attention to the word thing …”
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Introduction by Aracelis Girmay
Audre Lorde. Sandra María Esteves. Lucille Clifton. Mariposa. Harryette Mullen. Suheir Hammad. These are some of the poets I see Urantia Ramirez and Shaina Jones walking beside and after. And of course the countless poets in their lines whose names I do and do not know: to them I throw my flowers and give thanks.
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An Interview with Hugh Sheehy
Hugh Sheehy is the author of The Invisibles (University of Georgia Press), winner of the 2012 Flannery O’Connor Award. His fiction has appeared widely, most recently in Story, West Branch, and Five Points. He lives in Beacon, New York and teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing…
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An Interview with Claire Wahmanholm
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Night Vision (winner of the 2017 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest), Wilder (winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry) and Redmouth (Tinderbox Editions 2019).
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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
On Alice Oswald’s Dart, edited by Shara Lessley, featuring Niall Munro, Aria Misher Aber and Yvonne Reddick.
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Introduction by Laura van den Berg
Here is, for me, a sign of a memorable short story: there is at least one sentence I can’t stop thinking about. Just a few words and yet a deep … Read the rest
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Introduction by Brian Teare
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brian Teare is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion Grasses, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven.
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Garth Greenwell: Guest Editor’s Note
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming.
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An Interview with Rage Hezekiah
Rage Hezekiah is the author of Stray Harbor, recently released by Finishing Line Press. She is a Cave Canem and MacDowell Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College.