M. I. Devine’s essays have appeared in American Literature, Adaptation, Measure, and Los Angeles Review of Books. His writing has won support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cofounder of the pop music project Famous Letter Writer, he is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh. Kristina Marie […]
Hernán Bravo Varela was born in Mexico City in 1979. He is the author of six poetry collections and three essay collections, as well as a translator. Bravo Varela is currently the editor of the Periódico de Poesía (Poetry Journal) at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), […]
Erica Buist is a freelance writer and journalist, formerly a staffer at The Guardian, and she lectures at universities across the UK about features writing. She travelled to seven death festivals (in Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and Indonesia) and wrote a book about it called This Party’s Dead, which […]
listen to Thomas Ward reading this essay here. A few weeks ago, Charles Bernstein, Thomas Ward and I met for a discussion about the politics of poetic representation, and the ways we are marked by and engaged with language arising from our different experiences as secular Jewish, gay, and blind […]
I first met the “conceptually intrepid” composer Jacob Cooper when he asked if I’d write a text for what became his debut full-length album, Silver Threads (Nonesuch, 2014). The album features a suite of songs that extend from variations on classical haiku, performed by the “versatile, virtuosic” singer Mellissa Hughes. […]
Nandini Bhattacharya was born and raised in India and has called the United States her second continent for the last thirty years. Her short stories have been published or will be in the Saturday Evening Post Best Short Stories from the Great American Fiction Contest Anthology 2021, the Good Cop/Bad […]
Alejandro Albarrán Polanco was born in Mexico City. His poetry collection Algunas personas no son caballos won the 2018 Premio Internacional Manuel Acuña. His poems have been translated into Danish, French, Portuguese, Polish, and Swedish, and will be featured in Best American Experimental Writing 2020. La Tempestad […]
Paula Abramo was born in Mexico City in 1980. Her poetry cycle Fiat Lux was published by Mexico’s Fondo Editoral Tierra Adentro in 2012. She co-authored Yo soy la otra: las mujeres y la cultura en México (2017), exposing the causes of the invisibility of Mexican female […]
Óscar de Pablo (México, 1979) is the author of El baile de las condiciones (2011) and De la materia en forma de sonido (2013) as well as the novel El hábito de la noche (2011). He is part of the y Brigada para Leer en Libertad, an organization dedicated to cultural diffusion in […]
Srikanth Reddy grew up in Chicago. He earned a BA from Harvard College, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in English literature from Harvard University. He is the author of the poetry collections Underworld Lit (Wave Books, forthcoming 2020), Voyager (2011), and Facts […]
