"...When you’re urban or even in a space like a suburban neighborhood you can understand or feel where your world ends, right?... The field to me has presented a place of expanse. Freedom."
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Q&A with Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies
The poems are built on a foundation of refusal — to choose between two truths
Q&A with Aozora Brockman, author of “Light and Moon”
As a child I often felt that there was magic happening all around me, for it was magical to witness the way a seed I planted could grow into a sprawling summer squash plant blooming with yellow crooknecks, and for a summer sunrise to stain a puddle red-orange.
Q&A with Saba Keramati, author of Self-Mythology
I try very hard to make the English language sound beautiful. But in doing so, I can’t ignore how language (and yes, even poetry) can also be made odious, or how eloquence can be used for malintent.
Q&A with Grace Loh Prasad, Author of The Translator’s Daughter
I write about what it's like to be in this in-between space, to not have these things in common with my friends, and to be looking for more of a community and sense of belonging.
Q&A with Angela Peñaredondo, author of nature felt but never apprehended
I believe in nature felt but never apprehended, I travel through and investigate multiple worlds from a perspective of being both whole and un-whole.
Q&A with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites
What’s my place, and how can I use my position to help imagine a better world with more humanity and love?
