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INNOCENCE: An Interview with Michael Joseph Walsh

“One approaches a thing that seems solid from a distance, then finds oneself lost inside of it, in the body of a cloud.”

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STAFF PICKS 2022: A Year in Reading

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (AJA COUCHOIS DUNCAN)

“When I wrote Vestigial, I was listening to the future. But the future is the present too.”

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SINK: An Interview with Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Joseph Earl Thomas

“I feel like all influences are both internal and external, everything is real and fantasy at the same time.”

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (MARY BIDDINGER)

“When I finish writing a book I feel like I'm hastily moving out of an apartment.”

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Almost Obscene: On Translating Raúl Gómez Jattin with Katherine M. Hedeen & Olivia Lott

“He was an outsider, often painfully so, and as such his work challenges notions of queerness, madness, poetry itself in powerful, meaningful ways.”

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (ADAM FELL)

“Community and tenderness flowed in between the cracks in the apocalyptic façade.”

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (TIRZAH GOLDENBERG)

“…much of my work is concerned with things you can hold (or at least imagine holding) in your hands: archaeological remains, heirlooms, a fig (or figment), a faulty bellows . . .”

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (JORDAN STEMPLEMAN)

“I had to listen through the language of others, even the ‘me’ of my older work, to stare into the rupture.”

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Arch(d)ive: SOPs of the IRL; Return to the Gathering Place

It feels good to be glad to be here.

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (RACHEL ABRAMOWITZ)

“…there’s a lot of death in this book, and I don’t know what it’s like to be dead…”

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AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE)

“But when people start thinking of these small presses as where the interesting, exciting things are happening, as more like record labels in the 90s, where ideas about what poetry can do and where different poetics are taking shape(s) and influencing discourse, then I think that will yield better understandings…”