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Interviews

An Interview with Dramatist Diana Burbano
by Janis Butler Holm

July 15, 2021 Contributed By: Diana Burbano, Janis Butler Holm

Diana Burbano

I am passionate about allowing people to exist where they are instead of trying to make them fit into boxes.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: July 15, 2021

The Perpetual Garden with Clement Oladipo and Kandis Williams
by Corey Durbin

July 2, 2021 Contributed By: Corey Durbin

Clement in his Studio

I rode my bike to Ridgewood, Queens, where Clement was already outside rolling a cigarette.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Content, Featured Culture, Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: July 2, 2021

On the Freedom and Creativity in Messiness: A Conversation with The Cyborg Jillian Weise
by Josh Christian

June 21, 2021 Contributed By: Jillian Weise, Josh Christian

Jillian Weise

Josh Christian: I wanted to start with a broader question to get us into your life and work. I think what struck me about it was that there were so many threads that are happening, and you’re introducing your reader to this whole world of disability that maybe they haven’t even begun to consider, right? […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: June 21, 2021

Always Show Up: An Interview with Artist Dominic Chambers
by Aya Kusch

June 11, 2021 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

Dominic Chambers

Dominic Chambers is a New Haven-based artist whose immersive, brightly-hued color field paintings explore Black intellectualism and moments of leisure. He earned a BFA from the Milwaukee School of Art and Design in 2016 and an MFA from Yale University in 2019, and has exhibited in shows across the US and Europe. In this interview, […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: June 11, 2021

Interview with Liz Kay
by Katherine Fallon

May 31, 2021 Contributed By: Katherine Fallon

Liz Kay w/ Background

KATHERINE FALLON: Liz Kay’s poems have appeared in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Nimrod, Willow Springs, The New York Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Redactions, and Sugar House Review. She is the author of The Witch Tells the Story and Makes it True (Quarter Press) the chapbook, Something to Help Me Sleep (dancing […]

Filed Under: Featured Content, Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: May 31, 2021

Just Freedom: An Interview with Illustrator Xuan Loc Xuan
by Aya Kusch

May 21, 2021 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

Xuan Loc Xuan

  I was first drawn to Xuan Loc Xuan’s mesmerizing illustrations on the cover of a book of poetry, E.J. Koh’s A Lesser Love. On this cover, a girl in a green dress takes measured steps across what seems to be an endless sea of lily pads. Since then, I have come to learn that […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: May 21, 2021

Lilly Dancyger Interview by Raki Kopernik: Jewish Women Writers

May 19, 2021 Contributed By: Raki Kopernik

Lilly Dancyger

Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. She is also the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women’s anger. Find her on Twitter at @lillydancyger. This interview has been edited for brevity […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Fiction, Interviews Posted On: May 19, 2021

What’s Foretold, What’s Witheld: An Interview with Donika Kelly on The Renunciations
by Robin Gow

April 26, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

The Renunciations by Donika Kelly

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews, Poetry Posted On: April 26, 2021

Interview with Hayley Cranberry Small, Artist and Founder of Lutte Collective
by Corey Durbin

April 22, 2021 Contributed By: Corey Durbin

Hayley rests her head on her arms atop a white table. Next to her is one of her ceramic vessels entitled “i often mis-take my dreams for memories,” which is a lumpy bright lime green vessel with an ear-like handle. The handle is pierced and has a chain through it, which connects to a black ceramic flower petal that is atop it.

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: April 22, 2021

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

April 15, 2021 Contributed By: Corey Durbin

Leslie Duiguid Photographed by Anna Finocchiaro

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. […]

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews Posted On: April 15, 2021

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