by Zack Kopp Steven Dunn’s first book, Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), introduced readers to his spare, powerfully evocative voice. The novel, about growing up poor and Black in Kimball, West Virginia, proceeds in elliptical fragments as opposed to a continuous narrative, giving it a timeless quality. Yet despite the universality of his writing, Dunn […]
INTERVIEWS A Landscape Of Dignity: A Conversation With Ai Weiwei And Ian Boyden We’re so proud to publish “A Landscape of Dignity,” a conversation with Ai Weiwei and Ian Boyden discussing art, poetry, and cross-cultural collaboration. Interview by Stephanie Elliott Prieto Oceans of Memory: An interview with Chris Wiewiora Wiewiora discusses his travelogue memoir, The […]
To purchase issue #99 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Ander Monson: The Voice That Shows Up | interviewed by Kelly Lydick Phil Christman: The Heartland of the Matter | interviewed by Aarik Danielsen Yuko Otomo: Dropping Name Dropping | interviewed by Jim Feast Indran Amirthanayagam: Born into Migration | interviewed by John Wall Barger FEATURES […]
To purchase issue #98 using Paypal, click here. To view a video of our Summer Issue Virtual party featuring Jil Evans, Xandria Phillips, Jim Lenfestey, click here. INTERVIEWS Maggie Dubris: A Prayer for St. Clare | interviewed by Zack Kopp Wanda Smalls Lloyd: Creating Family Along the Way | interviewed by Jessica Sparks Sue William […]
To purchase issue #97 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS M. J. Nicholls: Fear Anxiety Panic | interviewed by Steven Moore Toi Derricotte: The Poem Tells Itself | interviewed by Swiss Hillary Leftwich: Nightmares, Heartbreaks, and Terrible Choices | interviewed by Zack Kopp Heidi Czerwiec: Fluid States | interviewed by Molly Sutton Kiefer Greg Gerke: See […]
Volume 24, Number 4, Winter 2019 (#96) To purchase issue #96 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS: Elizabeth Crook: Texan Quest in Civil War Time | interviewed by Allan Vorda John Domini: Tales from an Immigrant Country | interviewed by David Breithaupt Philip Memmer: A Poem Happens to You | interviewed by Christopher Carter Sanderson FEATURES: […]
Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2019 (#95) To purchase issue #95 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Thomas Larson: The Pleasures and Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing | interviewed by Renée E. D’Aoust Richie Narvaez: Every Story is a Mystery | interviewed by Dustin Michael Shira Dentz: The Arc, the Form, the Formless | interviewed by Kelly […]
Volume 24, Number 2, Summer 2019 (#94) To purchase issue #94 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS NANCY STOHLMAN: Clowns, Flash, and Lounge Metal | interviewed by Zack Kopp ED PAVLIĆ: If the Dead Could Speak | interviewed by Ken Walker MICHAEL JOYCE: The Telling Falls in the Full of Time | interviewed by Erin Lewenauer […]
Volume 23, Number 4, Winter 2018 (#92) To purchase issue #92 using Paypal, click here. INTERVIEWS Kate Schwehn: Object Lessons | interviewed by Molly Sutton Kiefer Steve Dalachinsky: Poetry Should Always Be Moving | interviewed by Jim Feast Melissa Scholes Young: An Unraveling of Stories | interviewed by Melissa Fraterrigo FEATURES Lawrence Ferlinghetti on the […]
Mark SaFranko Murder Slim Press ($12) by Zack Kopp The title of Mark SaFranko’s new installment of his fictional alter-ego Max Zajack’s biography comes from a snippet of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun’s Victoria: “all love’s ways are strewn with blossoms and blood.” SaFranko’s style is a distillation of that founded by Hamsun in the late […]