Interviews

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Image “A fractured ‘I’”: Seven Questions for Kaveh Bassiri - This year, I’ll finally turn an age I can’t say in Hindi.  And even if I get around to finally inputting “fifteen” into Google Translate, I still won’t know how to say it: the syllables will rust and bend around my tongue like cheap metal, and I’ll roll my “r’s” in a way learned in…
Image “Voxel”: Eight Questions for Jason Schneiderman - Teenagers scroll on social media for hours. I myself realize how much I spent time on my phone staring at the screen for hours, looking for something interesting, silly, or funny to fill that void of boredom. High schoolers like myself spend so much time online, while we could be learning new knowledge through books,…
Image “I Never Figured How to Get Free”: Eight Questions for Donika Kelly - Sometimes I find it intriguing how the media portrays wars. No matter how it’s supposed to be seen by the average viewer, when watching war on the news I’m horrified. I’m horrified that humans are capable of that level of violence. I bring this up because Donika Kelly’s poem “I Never Figured How to Get…
Image “What’s Unsaid”: Five Questions for Maya C. Popa - In the beginning of English class this year, my teacher emphasized an important idea that he wanted us to keep in the back of our minds when entering class discussions. As an introduction to this idea, he presented to the class a quotation from “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man should learn to detect…
Image “A Homage to a Painter of Small Things”: Six Questions for Bruce Bond - Bruce Bond, born on June 25, 1954 in Pasadena, California, is the author of 37 novels and many poems. Bond pursued his creative writing career at three colleges, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Pomona college, a Masters of Arts degree in English at Claremont Graduate school, and a PhD in English…
Image “I Have Warned You To Beware”: Six Questions for Paul Hoover - Paul Hoover was born in 1946, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago for many years before accepting an offer to go work as a teacher at San Francisco State University in the year 2003. He is known for being an editor of both the magazine New American Writing…
Image “Humanity 101”: Five Questions for Denise Duhamel - Denise Duhamel was born on June 13, 1961 in Rhode island, earned her B.F.A. from Emerson College, and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawerence College. She currently resides in Florida, teaching classes on creative writing and literature at Florida International University.   Shortly after beginning her graduation, she started her career in literature with her earliest books,…
Image “Rock Polisher”: Six Questions for Chris Forhan - Chris Forhan was born in Seattle Washington on November 6, 1959. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and two children, where he is a professor of creative writing at Butler University. He is the author of a memoir, My Father Before Me (2016), along with three books of poetry: Black Lept In (2009),…
Image “Pe’ahi Light”: Five Questions for Arthur Sze - Arthur Sze was born in December 1950 in New York City, and he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he serves as Professor Emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has written 11 poetry collections, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems; Sight Lines, which received the National Book Award…
Image “Common Flicker”: Six Questions for Michael Collier - Michael Collier, born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, received his undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and earned his MFA at the University of Arizona. Currently, he lives in Cornwall, Vermont, and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of eight books of poems, including The Clasp and…