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Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty
Twice a week for a year, I walked from my day job at Carnegie Mellon down Fifth Avenue to Carlow University. An adjunct professor in the Women’s Studies department, I freshened up before class in a...
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore
I first met Ellene Glenn Moore in 2013 when she was admitted to the MFA program at Florida International University where I teach. Through our years together I came to recognize Moore as a fellow...
View ArticleProjective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung
Sometimes when I’m teaching a poetry class, or a lyric essay class, I pass around notecards with salient lines from writers my students may not have encountered before. The idea is for students to find...
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Opening Survival Doors Through Language: A Conversation with Stacey Waite
I first met Stacey Waite at the Young Writers Institute, a creative writing program sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project. At the time I knew her first chapbook, Choke, had been the...
View ArticleUnder the Influence of Jane Wong: A Recipe-Qua-Review of How to Not Be Afraid...
There’s a cornucopia between the covers of Jane Wong’s new collection How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, plentiful with opportunities for emulation and wholly deserving of homage. I will be feasting...
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Every Moment Has Infinite Possibilities: A Conversation with Julie Iromuanya
I had the good fortune of meeting Julie Iromuanya several years ago when we were both teaching at the Cherry Tree Young Writers Conference, hosted by Washington College, in Maryland. I was teaching...
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Catalyst Events and a Time for Poetry: An Interview with Charles Flowers
If memory serves, I first met Charles Flowers at AWP 2013 in Boston when we both participated in a marathon literary reading/off-site event called Queertopia. But I knew him by reputation long before...
View ArticleReading Achy Obejas’s BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN as Indelible and Recursive Testimony
If I had to define poetry in a single word, I’d choose serendipity. Poems have a way of finding us when we need them most, a fact reinforced for me when I discovered Achy Obejas’s new bilingual...
View ArticleLove in and Loving Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons
In late March 2022, I attended the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans for the first time. It’s an annual queer festival, and I was delighted to be there in person, surrounded by so...
View ArticleFar from Usual and Better for It: The Layered Poetics of Allison Blevins’s...
It’s been weeks now since I first read Slowly/Suddenly by Allison Blevins, and I can’t get these poems out of my head or my body. I’m still riding Blevins’s cerebral/visceral teeter-totter, trying to...
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