After publishing her first book, Lauren Markham begins the long search for what she truly wanted after writing it.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts
The Roots of Cowboy Music: ‘This Is the Music We Made. This Is the Land We Made.’
Oakland writer Carvell Wallace travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and reflects on what it means to be black and American.
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Leaving Aleppo: ‘A distant star / Exhausts its light on the sleep of the dead.’
Pauls Toutonghi lovingly recalls his grandfather, Philippe Elias Tütünji, a writer, poet, and translator from Aleppo, Syria. Tütünji immigrated to America during World War II and never gave up his dream to achieve success as a poet in his adopted homeland.
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Forum: Poets and Borders Part Two
In response to the President’s proposed wall along the Mexican-American border, poets from all over the world are having an extended conversation about the ways their identities, style and influences cross borders, about living along physical borders, and how poetry knows no bounds. You can read the forum’s first part here.
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Rules for Departure
While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Rachel Z. Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Rules for Departure
While hitching a ride to a week-long bike tour, Rachel Z. Arndt considers the rituals of leaving — and making a clean break.
Posted inFiction, Story
The Wolves
A forester’s daughter spends a night in a cabin in Soviet Russia, but it takes decades to discover how much danger she put her family in.
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Departing U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Looks Forward to Next Bend in ‘The Road’
Juan Felipe Herrera, the self-described “poet of the people,” reflects on his two-year term as America’s Poet Laureate. The son of migrant farm workers from California’s rural interior, Herrera is the second Fresno poet appointed to the position, after Philip Levine. What’s with Fresno? Herrera calls Fresno the poetry capital of the world. That’s what.
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Behind The Writing: On Interviewing
In her first column on craft, Sarah Menkedick speaks with Sarah Smarsh, Lauren Markham, and Jennifer Percy on the art of the interview.
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‘I Love What Human Voices Do Together’: An Interview with Neko Case
Neko Case talks about collaboration, women warriors, women inventors, men with excellent falsettos, losing her home to a fire, and feeling lucky in ‘a great sea of loss.’
