“I find a lot of comfort in nihilism.” Eric Boyd on David Bowie, black and white films, and the end of the world.
Interviews
An interview with Eric Boyd
Stories Refresh the American Language:
An Interview with John Freeman
by Cal Shook
I grew up reading short stories by writers from the 1950s and 1960s and loving them: Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, J.D. Salinger.
Spitting Image: An Interview with Heather C. Sweeney
by Katherine Fallon
It’s more of a multifaceted imagined “I,” not just me speaking to one person. It’s thinking about my multiple selves and how we contain all these layers and perform different “I”s in this world.
Articulating the Inarticulable: An Interview with Kayleb Rae Candrilli on their latest collection Water I Won’t Touch
by Robin Gow
I want to find ways to connect what maybe seems unrelated, until they are tied inexorably in the world of the poem or the book.
Women Writers in Indie Publishing:
Alissa Hattman Interviewed by Raki Kopernik
Share your work and allow yourself to be vulnerable, risking something on every page.
An Interview with Dramatist Diana Burbano
by Janis Butler Holm
I am passionate about allowing people to exist where they are instead of trying to make them fit into boxes.
The Perpetual Garden with Clement Oladipo and Kandis Williams
by Corey Durbin
I rode my bike to Ridgewood, Queens, where Clement was already outside rolling a cigarette.
On the Freedom and Creativity in Messiness: A Conversation with The Cyborg Jillian Weise
by Josh Christian
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? […]
Always Show Up: An Interview with Artist Dominic Chambers
by Aya Kusch
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, […]
Interview with Liz Kay
by Katherine Fallon
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 […]
