An essay about being on the border of a situation. At the back of your mind, you are someone else. While desire remains an unresolved philosophical question, I am seducing my own will to follow my firm decisions, as it gallops forward on two different horses, one on a […]
Michael Prior is the author of Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020) and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016). His poems have appeared in The New Republic, POETRY, Narrative, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, Poetry Northwest, and The Margins, among other magazines and anthologies. Michael holds graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and Cornell University. Wendy […]
Lucia Duero is a Slovak writer and literary translator residing in Mexico City. Her work has been published in numerous magazines in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Latin America, and the United States. Her translation of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Lunes en Siete Días (Olifante, Spain, 2017) into Spanish won the II Marcelo […]
James Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. He is the author of the poetry collection The Suicide’s Son (Véhicule Press 2019) and Charms Against Lightning (Copper Canyon Press 2012). Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The […]
Amalia Melis was born and raised in New York. She is a freelance hard news/feature writer who has worked from New York and Athens, Greece. She has published interviews with two Pulitzer Prize winning authors Michael Cunningham and Frank McCourt. She is an essayist and fiction writer as well. Her […]
Last year in June, I was in Canada for a three week residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BLTC) at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity/ Centre de arts de Banff. Since 2003, BLTC has offered time for translators from around the world, ranging from students and emerging […]
Ellen Bass’s newest collection, Indigo, was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 2020. Her other poetry books include Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from […]
Megan Culhane Galbraith is a 2016 Saltonstall Fellow and Director of the GIV/Young Writers Institute at Bennington College. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Catapult, Longreads, PANK, Hotel Amerika, The Manifest-Station, The Review Review, Literary Orphans, The Lost Daughters, and ASSAY: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, among […]
Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, most recently After Callimachus (Princeton UP, 2020); Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019); and Advice from the Lights (Graywolf, 2017), an NEA Big Read Selection. Ask her about the X-Men. […]
A few months ago, I began to think about care, grief, and justice. Now, in these huge sets of crises: hundreds of thousands of people dying without ceremony from the coronavirus. And police brutality drawing attention to systemic racism in America. I wanted to dig as far down as I […]
