This year, I’ll finally turn an age I can’t say in Hindi. And even if I get around to finally inputting “fifteen” into Google Translate, I still won’t know how to say it: the syllables will rust and bend around my tongue like cheap metal, and I’ll roll my “r’s” in a way learned in…
Sometimes I find it intriguing how the media portrays wars. No matter how it’s supposed to be seen by the average viewer, when watching war on the news I’m horrified. I’m horrified that humans are capable of that level of violence. I bring this up because Donika Kelly’s poem “I Never Figured How to Get…
Dr. Ruben Quesada is a poet who was born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. He is an instructor at Cedar Crest College and an affiliate faculty member at Antioch University. He has written multiple books, including Brutal Companion, which won a Barrow Street Poetry Prize, 2023 Editors’ Choice,…
Sigurd Glad first interviewed A.E. Stallings back in 2017, asking her five questions that were inspired by her poem “The Barnacle.” Having recently read selections from This Afterlife, Ms. Stallings’s 2022 collection of poems, I was happy to have the chance to circle back and reconnect with one of this site’s favorite poets. A. E.…
Elaine Equi’s latest book is The Intangibles from Coffee House Press. A new collection, Out of the Blank, is forthcoming in 2025. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Big Other, Plume, New American Writing, and many other journals. In 2023, she served as guest editor of the annual anthology Best…
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1946, Lawrence Raab is rightfully considered an esteemed contemporary American poet whose work has captivated readers with its introspection and little bits of quick wit laced between the lines. Raab currently resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he has been deeply involved with William’s college as the Morris Professor of Rhetoric…
Robert Pinsky was born on October 20th, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University and then attended Stanford University to receive his PhD, graduating in 1966. He is currently a professor at Boston University, teaching English and Creative Writing in the graduate writing program. Pinsky has written numerous books, including At…
Francisco Márquez, born in 1983 in Miami, Florida, and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela, holds an MFA from New York University and currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry (2021), The Yale Review, and Narrative and has earned him fellowships from the Fine Arts…
Mary Jo Bang was born in Waynesville, Missouri, in 1946. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in sociology. She later earned another Bachelor’s degree in photography at the University of Westminster and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Columbia University. Putting her college degrees to use, Mary…
Jessica Greenbaum was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, Inventing Difficulty, was acknowledged in the Silverfish Review in 1998, her second novel, The Two Yvonnes, won the Gerald Cable Prize, and her third novel, Spilled and Gone, was named the ‘Best Book in Poetry,” by Library Journal in the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019). Additionally, Greenbaum co-edited,…