Capturing Sacred, Secular Imagery
The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) reflects on offering reverence to ordinary objects in poetry.
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The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) reflects on offering reverence to ordinary objects in poetry.
“Advice for poets should be poems.” —Bianca Stone, author of The Near and Distant World
The author of Cord Swell (Norton, 2025) considers how memory can be mined for particular phrases and pronunciations to guide poetry.
Casper, who has worked at a number of literary arts organizations over the last twenty-five years, most recently as head of Poetry and Literature in the Literary Initiatives Office at the Library of Congress, will start in his new role on January 26.
“Many unknown things are possible, many unexpected turns of events will arise.” —Xiaolu Guo, author of Call Me Ishmaelle
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) reflects on what a trans essay might look like.
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) considers what it would mean for the essay to embrace new kinds of meaning-making.
Ten authors answer the tenth question in our Ten Questions series: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
The author of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay (Graywolf Press, 2022) reflects on the ancient origins of the essay form.
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Alison Entrekin, the author and the translator of Three Stories of Forgetting.