“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…
“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.
“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…
“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.
“Looking Under the Skin of a Town”
“Swarm Theory,” the debut novel of Hypertext Magazine editor Christine Rice, is a complex biome of connective tissue…
