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
Q&A with Angela Peñaredondo, author of nature felt but never apprehended
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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?
Q&A with Alexandra Ye, author of “IOU”
I felt very lucky and excited to be in college when I was there, but for some reason I also couldn’t help feeling slightly humiliated all the time.
Q&A with John Manuel Arias, author of Where There Was Fire
Life is very beautiful. It's very tragic. It's very fucked up. But there are these little moments of ebullience.
Q&A with Jacqui Germain, author of Bittering the Wound
...that’s how memory works. There are always addendums, always missing details, always mess and emotion and things you can’t recall until much later.
Q&A with Jennifer Baker, author of Forgive Me Not
The goal is for you to understand that these Black and Brown children, they’re being put in a really, really bad situation. That’s our system.
Q&A with Lara Longo, author of “Motherland”
What I wanted to explore was a sort of failed hero’s journey.
