This is an edited transcription of a longer interview conducted over Zoom, available in-full below. Sean Murphy reads the opening of his story “Going to Graceland” (Volume 67, issue 3) from 11:38–14:41. Tell us about your relationship to writing. It started at a young age: something about poetry spoke to me. You . . .
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Tell us about your relationship to translation, specifically between Farsi and English. I always believe that I didn’t find translation, it was translation that found me somehow. When I was getting my bachelor’s degree in English Literature, I felt like I was enjoying my literary translation assignments a little too much. Later . . .
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The following is an edited transcription of a longer Zoom conversation, which is available in-full below. Kindig reads his poem “The Problem of Survival” from 7:39–8:40. Tell us about your relationship to writing. This is a big, big question, so I’ll try to do it justice… I’m trained in several different kinds . . .
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Tell us about your relationship to writing. I did not always want to be a writer. As a young person I only really encountered writing through school, so I understood it as a scholastic/academic activity. AKA, boring. I have always read, however. To this day I feel that books are the closest . . .
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Editor’s Note: The following is an edited transcription of a larger Zoom interview, available in-full below. Kevin D. Jordan reads from his story, “The Forest as Witness” (Volume 67, issue 3), from 9:08–12:00. Tell us about yourself and your relationship to writing. It’s been a long and gradual road for me. In . . .
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Ted Plantos Memorial Award photo with judge John B. Lee, 2005. Tell us about your relationship to translation, specifically between Chinese and English translation. From a very young age, I felt that I did not quite belong, I became independent, sometimes a little wild. In middle school, I began writing martial arts . . .
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Editor’s note: The following text is an edited transcription of a longer conversation conducted over Zoom, available in full below. Joan Cambridge-Mayfield reads “Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-Grant Line” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 39:38–41:50, and Jeremy Jacob Peretz reads Grace Nichols’s “Blackout” (Volume 35, issue 3/4) from 43:50– 46:11. Tell . . .
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Editor’s note: The text here is an edited transcription of a larger conversation conducted over Zoom, which appears in full below. Waters reads her poem “—And Also Sex” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 11:40–13:19. Tell us about yourself and your relationship to writing. What do you normally write about? What do I . . .
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Tell us about your relationship to writing: How it began, and where it’s headed. I’m going to be very literal about this because this is a big question. For me writing started in kindergarten. We had a great teacher—we called her “Lupita”—who taught us how to read and write with the poetry . . .
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Editor’s note: The text here is an edited transcription of a larger conversation conducted over Zoom, which appears in full below. Melpignano reads her translations of Leonardo Tonini’s poems “6.” from [25:52 – 26:27] and “12.” from [28:16 – 28:40]. Music credit to Nicholaas Stulting, “Everyday.” Introduce yourself, your relationship to writing . . .
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