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An Interview with Christine Barkley
“‘Wilded’ began as a conversation with other poems I had written, partially as a condemnation of common themes to which I found myself returning without any resolution.” Interview by Maddy Grieco.
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An Interview with Daniel Uncapher
“But then, because my father becomes more of a thread to this piece, it’s also a bit of a warning: be careful with people stuff, because it’s not clear how it always goes in the end.”
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An Interview with Ji Hyun Joo
“I wanted to write a story about a young man who self-isolates and lives vicariously through his comic book character … As I fleshed out the character of Darwin, themes about power dynamics (whose experience is seen and unseen) came out more significantly.”
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An Interview with Daniel Torday
By Kyra DeVoe Daniel Torday is the author of The 12th Commandment, The Flight of Poxl West, and Boomer1. A two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award … Read the rest
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An Interview with Gary Jackson
“I’ve read comic books since I was nine years old, and even as a child I understood that characters like The Uncanny X-men were intended to function as an allegory for race …”
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An Interview with Albert Abonado
“I think of the white space in this poem like that, a place for the speaker to move the poem around, a place to disguise intent, to conceal an America that hides in the silences.”
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An Interview with Katy Didden
“But there’s a lot that’s disturbing in the world right now, and the more I quiet my mind, the more I can discern what matters.”
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An Interview with Donika Kelly
“Greek mythology was the primary and intuitive way that I understood power within family relationships.”
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An Interview with M.G. Leibowitz
“But this power to … communicate the full weight of a paradox, to ‘say’ in one stroke and “unsay” in the next—to me, that’s poetry at its best.”
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An Interview with Amy Gustine
“Short stories are rarely about the moment of crisis. I think that’s because what happened is just a fact.”
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