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.”
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.”
AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (ADAM FELL)
“Community and tenderness flowed in between the cracks in the apocalyptic façade.”
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 . . .”
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.”
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…”
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…”
AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (SOMMER BROWNING)
“I think I will add it to the next fake library I see, maybe at IKEA or a bar that’s decorated like an office.”
AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (GINGER KO)
“The Operating System is about discovery and disclosure and advocacy.”
AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (STEPHANIE GINESE)
“The mysteries of Puerto Rican history, religion and my own personal experiences were constantly running through my mind while I was writing…”
AND COULD THEY HEAR ME I WOULD TELL THEM (JANICE LEE)
“I will leave a copy of the book on a trail where the water meets the sky, and the sky meets the sand…”