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10 Questions for Timothy O'Keefe

February 5, 2018 - By Abby MacGregor

Imagine that you’re an insatiable reader – poetry, fiction, philosophy, plays, history, noir, CNF, DIY, cookbooks, travelogues, comic books, blogs, clickbait, scrolling ad infinitum. Reading for you is no mere habit and, on some level, not even a proper activity, but a kind of experiential osmosis that positions language as primary and generative in the world to which it refers . . . but another dire consequence that appeared somewhere in the osmotic flux is your desire to focus and channel it all toward some aesthetic end. Therein lies the first gauntlet. —from “You Are the Phenomenology,”...

10 Questions for Joanne Diaz

January 31, 2018 - By Kira Archibald

Near the end, Ceausescu would only drink juice through a straw.
Twice, he was convinced that his hearing had improved: once
when he heard the sound of a distant train of his youth;
another time when his long-dead mother sang , , ,
—...

10 Questions for Tracey Physioc Brockett

January 22, 2018 - By Emily Wojcik

A portfolio of Tracey Physioc Brockett's "Daily Tangles" series can be seen here or in our Winter 2017 issue, Vol. 58, Issue 4.

Tell us about one of the first...

10 Questions for Martin Espada

January 18, 2018 - By Emily Wojcik

10 Questions for Lauren Marie Schmidt

January 16, 2018 - By Emily Wojcik

"I wouldn’t tell any of the guys this, they’d never let me live it down if they knew, but I threw up in the bushes after seeing what they did to that girl in the basement. That’s like a real pussy thing to do, right?"—from "Players," in Winter 2017 (Volume 58, Issue 4)

Tell us about one of...