David A. Romero’s My Name Is Romero is a funny, dark, investigatory look at what it means to be Latinx in our present moment. Romero…
I have long bristled at the suggestion that writing is therapy, and have secretly and now not so secretly, distanced myself from that notion. Writing…
Taking on the persona of Lucie (itself a tribute to her own use of persona in both A Hunger and The Master Letters), included honoring…
Though you love life and all of its peaceable securities what is subdued in you sparks and burns with jolly brightness, and you are a…
“Miracle” is a weighty word in the best of times and perhaps never weightier than in, as you say, times of plague. I was raised…
When you dive into a specific calling, and that’s what this book was for me, there is no question to the doing, so the trajectory…
Zinnia’s poetry is stunning, featuring associative leaps alongside singular images, shifts in time, narrative, identities, and an overall focus on describing the contradictory feelings and…
In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.
Larisa’s poetry carves out its own space, separate from most contemporary poems and poets-of-the-moment. Her work is not afraid to ask big questions, yet it…
Milletti’s narrator in Choke Box: a Fem-Noir (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019) carries a distinct vision, precision, and power. It’s difficult for writers to be…