Donika Kelly is the author of the chapbook Aviarium (fivehundred places) and the full-length collections The Renunciations (Graywolf 2021) and Bestiary (Graywolf). Bestiary is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long-listed for the National Book Award and […]
Featured Interviews
What’s Foretold, What’s Witheld: An Interview with Donika Kelly on The Renunciations
Interview with Hayley Cranberry Small, Artist and Founder of Lutte Collective
by Corey Durbin
Hayley Cranberry Small (she/her) is an Artist, Urban Planner, and Ceramicist working out of Brooklyn, NY. They started Lutte Collective, a platform for highlighting disabled and chronically ill artists, in 2017. Corey Durbin: Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us, could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself […]
In Conversation with Leslie Diuguid of Du-Good Press, the First and Only Black Female Owned Fine Art Printshop in New York
by Corey Durbin
The following interview was dictated from a video conversation that took place on January 28, 2021. Leslie Diuguid: I can’t wear these. (removing headphones) Corey Durbin: I can’t hear you. LD: (muffled) . . . blah blah blah blah CD: Okay, I got you. LD: Okay, here I am, but yeah, that’s the disappointing thing. […]
The Tender Satire of Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand
by Emily Brown
Gregory Barnes’ The Touch of the Master’s Hand is a Mormon movie, a twelve-minute short about a young missionary ashamed of his masturbation habit. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won the Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction. Despite its look into the cultural oddity of Mormonism, the film is relatable […]
Dance, Ghosts, and the End of the World: An Interview with Emily St. John Mandel
by Nathan Winer
Emily St. John Mandel is a novelist originally from British Columbia. The author of five novels, her fourth, Station Eleven (2014), tells the story of life before and after a world-shattering pandemic, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award, as well as the winner of the Arthur C. Clark […]
