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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The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is doneby brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, dis-tilling, sign-painting, lime-burning . . .—Walt Whitman, “A Song for Occupations” To the memory of Henry Bradshaw: foreman, craftsman, grandfather With my Granddad I shared my first beer;It was lager and yellowish clear.We had . . .
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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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