I don’t remember Shy Watson’s hair color when I first met her. I was visiting a friend’s sublet in Prospect Park and she walked through the door; I was shy,…
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Queering the Form: a conversation between Teresa Carmody and Paul Lisicky
by Guest Contributor February 1, 2021It feels forever ago: when we could greet each other in person; hug, exclaim, share sips from the same water bottle. Hold each other’s phones. But it’s only been a…
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Hexes + Numbers: An Interview With Noah Cicero
by Andrew Byrds January 11, 2021Hexes+Numbers is a new interview series where all the questions are randomly generated hex color codes (#000000), and randomly generated numbers without any context provided. It’s up for the interviewee to…
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Hexes + Numbers: An Interview with Michaelangelo Matos
by Andrew Byrds January 4, 2021Hexes+Numbers is a new interview series where all the questions are randomly generated hex color codes (#000000), and randomly generated numbers without any context provided. It’s up for the interviewee to…
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Hexes+Numbers: An Interview With Sadie Dupuis
by Andrew Byrds December 28, 2020Hexes+Numbers is a new interview series where all the questions are randomly generated hex color codes (#000000), and randomly generated numbers without any context provided. It’s up for the interviewee to…
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Hexes+Numbers: An Interview with Sophie Jennis
by Andrew Byrds December 21, 2020Hexes+Numbers is a new interview series where all the questions are randomly generated hex color codes (#000000), and randomly generated numbers without any context provided. It’s up for the interviewee…
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The Cello Has Its Own Lines: A Conversation with Jean Kwok and Davis Schneiderman
by Davis Schneiderman December 9, 2020Something You’ve Never Said Before #1 Lake Forest Reads: Ragdale is a community reads program in partnership with the Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest College, and the Friends of Lake Forest Library. In…
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Foster Care: “Foster kids go through so much, and so much of it is not spoken”
by Guest Contributor October 29, 2020Image Credit: Taunton Lake, New Jersey by Elisabeth Through a project working with communities which recognize that many of their young people deserve better education and life outcomes, I…
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IT’S NOT A POEM UNLESS IT FAILS: An Interview with Rachel Levitsky
by Guest Contributor September 30, 2020Earlier this year, Ugly Duckling Presse published a new edition of Rachel Levitsky’s 2009 book Neighbor. In the book, Levitsky writes, “I’ve decided to use my obsession/with my neighbor as…
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“Staging the end of a limiting self”: A Conversation with Mike Soto
by Joe Milazzo September 3, 2020When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
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Failure Is The Universe Testing Our Resolve: In Conversation With Michael J Seidlinger
by Andrew Byrds July 16, 2020Dreams of Being is out now via Maudlin House. Andrew Byrds: This book couldn’t have come out at a better time. With a pandemic, an onslaught of political and social…
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History & Hybridity: A Conversation with Sheila O’Connor
by Guest Contributor July 15, 2020I recently had the opportunity to interview Sheila O’Connor about her most recent hybrid novel, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, which excavates the buried history…
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“Brief worlds are my favorites”: A Conversation with Parker Tettleton
by Joe Milazzo June 17, 2020Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…
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Nothing is embarrassing if you aren’t embarrassed: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic on Milan, Clubbing, and being the Life of the Party
by Andrew Byrds June 2, 2020Life of the Party is out now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: Milan is presented as a city of opposites in your book, and these contradictions are explored a lot.…