“Still Life With Fragrance: An Interview With JSA Lowe”
I think of JSA Lowe’s poems the way I think of American trompe l’oeil…
“Kaleidoscope: An Interview With Dawn Raffel”
I imagine entering the 1933 Century of Progress Fair felt to Chicagoans of the day like…
“The Neighbor”
He drew a cooing dove from a cage on the porch. He caressed her breast and stretched her out to me…
“Expanding Latinidad: An Interview With Ruben Quesada”
When I was eight, I thumbed through a book of poetry in my mother’s library, a compendium of Mexican poetry…
“For Ourselves in Between: An Interview With Addie Tsai”
Every queer person has a relationship to monster stories. When we’re told we’re freaks, abnormal oddities of society, otherness internalizes.
“Dislocation and Sherbet Glow: An Interview With Alex Poppe”
The sound crackled down my grandparents’ skylit stairway to me, then a child listening to cascañuelas chirping in my grandmother’s bedroom…
“Cephalopod Channeling: An Interview With Shelby Van Pelt”
My former partner and I used to share a joke that, internally, I was a sixty-seven year old woman.
“Las flores re-enervantes”
If you don’t speak Spanish, google it. This is the twenty-first century.
“To Believe in Humanity: An Interview With Michael Landweber”
If your life has been touched by violence, you know it is insidious like a weed—it winds itself into the cracks, rubbles foundations…
“Transmogrification”
Even from a distance, as Zora parks their car among the maze of vehicles in the field, Xochitl can see the carnival lights…
“Small Action: An Interview with Louise Marburg”
I have many childhood associations with swimming pools; learning at age seven how to let go of the paddle board…
“Writing to Fill In the Blanks: An Interview with Ana Castillo”
There is something about Ana Castillo’s latest poetry collection, My Book of the Dead, that has the quality of being woven…
“Rockwellian: An Interview with Catherine Adel West”
Before the pandemic, Catherine Adel West and I enjoyed a scrumptious dinner at The Allis Chicago.
“Spaniel, Parts I & II”
I see her through the window coming up the sidewalk and I know it’s mija.
“The Bosnian”
One November Sunday in 1997, when she’s thirteen, she and her mother go on a grocery trip.
“For the Love of Independence”
A Review of “If You Weren’t Looking for It: The Seminary Co-Op Bookstore”
