Our Inspiration Issue features a special portfolio of portrait-interviews with Sally Wen Mao, Hanif Abdurraqib, Morgan Parker, Esmé Weijun Wang, Ross Gay, Yiyun Li, and Chigozie Obioma, who share their thoughts on creativity and the literary imagination; our fourteenth annual look at the year’s best debut poets; the first installment of a new series, How to Get Paid; the creative power of hypnagogia; cowboy poetry; writing prompts; and more.