Conversation

Marcus Slease’s latest book, Play Yr Kardz Right, will come out in August with the British small press Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Tim Atkins has called these poems “gentle & generous engagements…

When reading Catherine Theis’ poetry, I’m frequently reminded of Godard’s 1963 film Contempt. As with that movie, Theis is interested in the way in which the classical Greco-Roman world (its…

VI KHI NAO: Your lack of line breaks or your internal line breaks are one of most compelling aspects of this poetry collection. Could you talk about your process with…

VI KHI NAO: What is desire to you? KRISTIN SANDERS: I feel like desire is the force that moves the whole world. It’s one of the only things I’m interested…

Coco and I have been friends for maybe a decade—we don’t remember where we met but this is the nature of the Chicago community (and others, but the one I…

DIEHL: Where did this novel begin for you? SMITH: The plot came to me in a crazy post-partum dream. I was participating in a scenario on an island near Seattle,…

Sarah Gerard’s new collection of essays, Sunshine State, dives into her childhood in Florida, her family history, systemic inequality, trauma, environmental decimation, death and the power of hope. I sat…

Christopher Woodall’s November (Dalkey Archive) is a big book. I knew that going in, and, frankly, its length (just a little  over 700 pages) contributed significantly to its allure. Yet…

I first met Sonya Chung—a multi-talented and multitasking writer, professor, and editor—when she was teaching in the undergraduate creative writing program at Columbia University; I was on a fellowship to…

The poems in Joanna Valente’s new chapbook, Xenos, (link: http://www.sundresspublications.com/agape/xenos.pdf) somehow feel like home and new territory, all at once. These senses manifest themselves on a literal level, in the geographic…

Writing about Anomalous Press for Entropy‘s own small press database project, founding editor Erica Mena offers this summation of the press’ mission: “to create beautiful, strange little books that a…

Featured photo — “a city through a jungle” —  from author Katie Simpson. Each night my dad made the same toast: “to another day in paradise.” Our glasses clinked as we…

The Echoes of Hinterland series weaves a compelling narrative that is hopeful, tragic, and uplifting all at the same time. The protagonists, Myron and Sindra, make for unlikely heroes, but…

While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…