What The Living Know
byIn this interview, Hope Fischbach and Randyl Music speak with Lauren K. Alleyne about the many meanings of home, immigrant identity, body/spirit duality, and…
Interviews
Empire of Smoke
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Our interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with poet Alfredo Aguilar about capitalistic world building, climate catastrophe, poetic process, and his most recent collection, What...
Single Guiding Stars: An Interview With Rosebud Ben-Oni
byOur interviews editor Esteban Rodriguez talks with Rosebud about her favorite musicians, identity, the place and purpose of literature in today’s socio-political landscape, and…
The Geese Who Might Be Gods
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In life we find there are moments that often elude language. We may remember specific events and places with the utmost clarity months or...
American Radiance
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Although Luisa Muradyan’s American Radiance (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) centers on the memories of migrating to the United States, it also expands on the...
Your Strange Fortune
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For our second micro-essay on first books, Chloe Clark gives us a peek into the inspiration and process behind her debut collection Your Strange...
Where The Light Is Born: An Interview With Li-Young Lee
byLi-Young Lee was born in Jakarta, Indonesia to parents who were, as he discusses in this interview, scapegoated by the Chinese government and forced…
Fossils In The Making
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The Micro-Essay Series on First Books was conceived as a way to give readers and writers a look behind the curtain, to see how...
Breathing Things: A Conversation With Artist Taylor O. Thomas
byTaylor O. Thomas lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee where she fills her apartment with large, but intricately layered color-filled paintings. Sometimes the images…