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“I only write about the things that haunt me in some way.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies

This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Pajtim Statovci and David Hackston, the author and the translator of Bolla.

“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.