"I continued the traditional archival practices, let myself get productively lost." We interviewed Kathleen Spada about research, the Gothic, and her recent book: WARD: A Memoir of Ghosts, Grandmothers, and Little Girls Who Disappear. Link in thread:
"The school sags, full of little ghosts. / The walls reek of forgottenness."
In today's miCRo, William Littlejohn-Oram reanimates the past.
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"You want people to understand your threshold moments, and these moments, by nature, comprise both the illegible and the legible."
On the site, Assistant Editor Leila Chatti interviews Renee Gladman. Renee joins us this Thursday for a reading in the Elliston Room.
“I used to think my poetics was chalked up to being radically tender, but I consider that to be under the wider umbrella of a kind of poetics of disbelief.”
On the site, Assistant Editor Prince Bush interviews Jeric Smith on his interests and poetics.
"murmurings of promised honey weather / echo through the roofless chapel’s mass."
In today's miCRo, A. J. Worley's luminous sonnet "May Storm" turns a careful eye onto the quiet divinity that exists in our daily lives.
"Like a sacked || tomb the oven / yawns— || even girded / with steel || it fails to keep / the dead in or || living out."
Today on the site, Quinn Franzen's "The Kiln" renders a familiar act of making into lines of suggestion and vividness. Link in thread.
We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards: David Joez Villaverde (poetry), Alice Hatcher (nonfiction), and Anna Story (fiction)! Many thanks to all of this year's entrants. Read the full list of finalists on our site. Link in thread:
"Children are rarely spared from the messes we create, and so it was not hard to imagine child characters imperiled by their circumstances . . ."
On the site, Associate Editor Blessing Christopher interviews Uche Okonkwo, author of A Kind of Madness. Link in thread.