Category: INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS
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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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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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A Conversation with a Past Contributor: Mike Chin
When do a bunch of stories become a collection? When I finished my MFA program at Oregon State, I figured my next step was to publish a book. Lucky for me, I’d written a lot those two years—conservatively, twenty short stories and probably twice as much flash. I’d been through the thesis process of polishing…
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Tenderness and Tragedy: A Simultaneous Experience
Jake Skeets is a Diné poet, holds a degree from the IAIA, and his debut collection Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful Of Flowers was selected by Kathy Fagan for the National Poetry Series in 2018. We spoke to Jake over the phone about his debut collection, image, his process, and the balance of violence…
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If It Turns Out Strange: An Interview with Bradley Sands
Bradley Sands once said that his stories do not follow the laws of physics, but that their realities are only bound by the laws of grammar. This is evident in his latest book, Liquid Status, about one household’s transformation after a death in the family. But it is not a merely a metaphoric transformation, it…
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Dana Diehl Talks About TV Girls and What She Loves in Reality TV
by Courtney Brooks Author Dana Diehl has a complicated obsession with reality TV shows, particularly those one can find on TLC. Diehl’s fascination with the lives and struggles of the characters she watches on shows such as Dance Moms, Cake Boss, Sister Wives, The Bachelor, and House Hunters made way for the stories in her…
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Writing the Diné Presence into Existence: An Interview with Laura Tohe
Laura Tohe is a distinguished poet, author, and editor from the Diné community whose creative work challenges the public perception of the Diné experience. Tohe has been published extensively and won myriad awards, including being named Navajo Poet Laureate in 2015.
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