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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Poetry and ritual event at 10 Forward (now Last Ditch) in 2022, author’s own collection. A little over two weeks ago, the small town where I live—Greenfield, Massachusetts—made national news. The Boston Globe had caught wind of community conflict at our local lesbian bar, Last Ditch, and was airing it out to . . .
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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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Sami al-Ajrami, author of The Keys to My House: A Gaza Diary On October 20, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. in the UMass Honors College events hall, I’ll be hosting a presentation by co-author Anna Lombardi (in person) and author Sami al-Ajrami (via Zoom) of the latter’s The Keys to My House: A . . .
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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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Diana Senechal (62.2 and honorable mention for the 2022 Chametzky Prize)’s essay collection More and Less than a Friend: The Songwriting Partnership of Tamás Cseh and Géza Bereményi in Hungary came out in July from Serving House Books. The e-pub edition will be out at the end of September. Christopher Kondrich (59.3) . . .
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Photo: The keys to our house that was destroyed in Northern Gaza. Courtesy of the author. When I was ten years old, I was studying at the Beach Elementary School in Gaza. My teacher, Rahma, asked us to write about our original villages. “Go home,” she told us, “and ask your grandparents . . .
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Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness, can and often does feel a bit like being trapped in a sudden storm, a hurricane or a tornado, perhaps a blizzard. Some form of . . .
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