“Writing Against: Training, Genre, and Poetic Interference,” appeared in the October 9, 2026 issue of true. What inspired you to interrogate the primary question of..
Writing Against: Training, Genre, and Poetic Interference
I am trained as an academic.I am not trained as a poet. And yet the poetry came first. The loose-cannon, one-and-only chance, step-to-the-mic collection of..
Speculation as Art: Mapping Possibilities to Tell Elusive Stories
A decade ago, I visited the Angel Island Immigration Station, the California port of entry where, between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained under..
An interview with Olga Mikolaivna about her chapbook cities as fathers is a dialogue about the worth and definition of art, of place, of linguistic selfhood.
Heidi Czerwiec and Erica Trabold explore the function of lyric essays, and how lyric essay collections are illuminating this style of nonfiction writing.
Cija Jefferson speaks with Athena Dixon about her new book of essays, The Loneliness Files, and what it means to find connections inside and outside of writing.
