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“Jane Huffman (she/her) is the author of Public Abstract (American Poetry Review, 2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a PhD candidate in English and literary arts at…”
Melody or Witchcraft
“The Arabs’ discovery that their Arab counterparts in occupied Palestine spoke Arabic, loved their country, and hated injustice was astonishing—astonishing to the point of shame…”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“The moment taught me that an image on its own is very different than the context of an image on a book cover. Corrao’s design, paired with Phib’s collage, perfectly captured the dark blossom…”
Electric Literature
“Lidia Yuknavitch, whose own life, like mine, intersected with Ursula’s, and whose writing engages with and is enlivened by Ursula’s work, joined me at Powell’s Bookstore in downtown Portland to…”
Between The Covers
“My clinical experiences have taught me that when there’s even a speck of light visible to a despairing client, their motivation can be sparked…more directed and solidified…”
University of Arizona Poetry Center
“In Ljubljana in 2018, I felt a bit of that fragility. It was very different than the time of Tomaž Šalamun’s imprisonment in Tito’s Yugoslavia. But when I was there…”
Poetry Northwest
“Turner, who grew up in northern Tennessee but was not born there, writes with the sensibility of an outsider insider, an insider who’s always on the outside…”
McSweeney’s
“In his introduction Armitage draws our attention to the poem’s rich modern resonance, including its frankness about sex workers, who play a key role in bringing Enkidu to Uruk, its ecological…”
The Guardian
“I met with Ní Ghríofa over Google Meet on a Sunday (morning for me in Philadelphia and afternoon for her in Cork). We spoke about writing history as a living entity, how she risked her safety for…”
The Rumpus
“Giannisi’s poetry challenges the delusion that humans stand apart from nature, either as masters or saviours. Instead, she invites her readers to recognise that we are composite creatures…”
The Conversation
“We look at language and the law, navigating thorny questions of language as a tool and as a weapon when it comes to treaties, to Land Back, and Layli’s art and writing practice engaging with it…”
Between The Covers
“I was unlucky in that I have a learning disability that made school fairly hellish. The teachers knew I wasn’t stupid, but I also couldn’t legitimately pass a math class after 6th grade…”
On The Seawall
“For waste collection workers such as Paul Keijzer, who started driving Rotterdam litter trucks in 1988, the poetry gives an added connection to the city…”
The Guardian
“I’m suspicious of borders even on the page. I’m wary of the limits of tradition, expectation and genre…”
Poetry Northwest
“Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul…”
Poetry Foundation
