O Categories Interview On Race, Secrets, & Love: An interview with E. Dolores Johnson Author Sonya Lea and debut memoirist E. Dolores Johnson discuss 'Say I'm Dead,' a family memoir of race, secrets, and love.
M Categories Interview Memoir, Essay, and the Crucible of Meaning: An Interview with Joanna Eleftheriou Bruce I. Friedland and essayist Joanna Eleftheriou discuss trauma, identity, and place in the writing of 'This Way Back.'
F Categories Interview Finding Solace Among the Birds: A Conversation with Joshua McKerrow About Making Art from Grief Megan Reilley and Photojournalist Joshua McKerrow discuss "Today's Birds," and the act of creating through grief.
L Categories Craft Essay Let It Be: The Lilac in US Poetry “Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love,” sings Nina Simone, trying to delay the loss of something already gone.
T Categories Review The Rhythm of Chronic Illness: A Review of “You’ve Been So Lucky Already” by Alethea Black You wake up and everything has shifted. You have been throwing up and napping sporadically for 6 months. You’ve been sleeping twice as much as..
A Categories Interview An Interview with Alison Powell, Proximity’s 2018 Essay Prize winner I was given the opportunity to interview poet, essayist, and scholar Alison Powell in the middle of the most extreme winter of our generation. A..
T Categories Craft Editorial Notes Essay Interview True’s Top Reads of 2018 As we step into the new year, we’d like to not only alert you to Proximity‘s next issue, themed The Body, due out in January—within..
D Categories Flotsam Dead Girls Deserve Obituaries, Not Exploitation On October 14th, the Sunday edition of the New York Times ran two articles on dead women. One was a special section inserted into the..
A Categories Interview A Conversation with Sarah Smarsh Back in 2002, long before journalists and analysts were obsessed with figuring out the American working class as some sort of Holy Grail to Trump’s..
