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“There’s something sort of final and fulfilling about discovering, say, that a poem’s floor is also its ceiling.” —Justin Jannise, author of How to be Better by Being Worse

The author of Anodyne shares her methodology for determining the order of poems in a collection.

“Writing is revision. Period. That’s not glamorous, but it is rewarding.” —Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets

“It was a bit of an exorcism.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

“I leapt into it and wrote it like a banshee.” —Yxta Maya Murray, author of Art Is Everything

The author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities embraces and develops a queer Asian American poetics.