Category: STAFF CONTENT
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An Interview with GennaRose Nethercott: Endings, Fairytales, and the Spookiest Realms
An Interview with GennaRose Nethercott: Endings, Fairytales, and the Spookiest Realms Written by Reece Gritzmacher In 2017, GennaRose Nethercott’s six-part narrative poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series Competition. Nethercott has since completed several works, including the children’s story Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog (“a…
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An Interview with Sylee Gore: “Carry My Inner World”
An Interview with Sylee Gore, Winner of the Second Annual Bird in Your Hands Prize: “Carry My Inner World” Written by Megan Latin-De Bono Sylee Gore’s work travels between the studio, the desk, and the city. She is the author of Even Still, her debut visual poetry book that explores the connection of liminal pieces.…
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An Interview with Katherine Standefer: “I must tell the story I lived”
An Interview with Katherine Standefer: “I must tell the story I lived” Transcribed and Edited by Alli Mancz I first encountered Katherine Standefer’s creative nonfiction and experienced her brilliance in the spring of 2021. When I was a senior at Ohio University, the English department invited Standefer to give a reading to our broader literary…
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Walking the Line Between Today and Tomorrow: An Interview with Jake Syersak
I had the pleasure of interviewing poet, translator, and editor Jake Syersak about his debut poetry collection, Yield Architecture (Burnside Review Press, 2018). The collection is a series of beautiful contradictions and coalescence. Jake’s book displaces language one might think they’re familiar with. He makes words into experiences with lines like, “dove. the of I’m…
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Black Lives Matter: Our Commitments
The editorial staff of Thin Air Magazine knows that Black lives matter. In our local community, we protest the Flagstaff Police Department’s racist policies, history of brutality against Indigenous people, and our city council’s commitment to sponsor this injustice. We are outraged by the violence inflicted upon Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) across…
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Robert DiMatteo Discusses Art and Science
Robert DiMatteo is a visual artist with a keen interest in science and the environment. His current project, The Periodic Table, focuses on the visualisation of chemistry through art. Each element he has tackled so far has three representations using different media; acryllic, graphite, and goache. He envisions the series as a means to draw…
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Slam Poetry is Not What You Think it is by Cailin Jeffers
What’s the first thing you picture when you hear the words “slam poetry”? Is it a group of sappy teens snapping their fingers in a coffee shop? Is it someone yelling punctuated nonsense into a microphone? Does the slam poetry scene from 22 Jump Street come to mind? “Slam. Poetry. Yelling! An-gry! Wa-ving my hands…
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The Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase Ecosystem by Katie McGee
The Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, affectionately known as NAPS, kicked off its 12th year at Theatrikos Playhouse in Flagstaff this September. Ever since Ann Cummins, a creative writing professor at NAU, founded NAPS, the playwriting contest has enjoyed a strong connection with the university’s MFA program. This year more MFA students, alumni, and faculty participated…
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A Meeting of Middle-Grade Authors: Dusti Bowling, Paul Mosier, and Janni Lee Simner by Zach Bartell
On September 14, 2019, three Arizona novelists converged at Bright Side Bookshop in downtown Flagstaff to hold a reading and talk on their work and experiences in middle-grade literature. Middle-grade fiction, as contrasted with the more widely known genre young adult literature, is written for an audience mainly of children ages eight to twelve, and,…
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Words: The Breath of Life by Jackie Walling
Time edges its way towards 2:00 p.m. when I walk into Hardes Theater off of Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix. The dramatic foyer lighting brings me to the usher, smiling, waiting for my ticket. I smile back and want to say, “I’m with the band,” but instead I croak out something to the effect of…
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