The “Power of Poetry in Commemorating Personal and Historical Sorrows in Ways Historians Cannot”: Poet Weijia Pan on “Motherlands”

An interview with poet Weijia Pan about his collection “Motherlands,” which uses poetic inquiry to explore the tensions within family relationships in post-Maoist China.

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Fear, Safety, and “The Red Grove”: An Interview with Tessa Fontaine

An interview with Tessa Fontaine on her latest novel, “The Red Grove,” and the Punch Bucket Literary Festival in Asheville, NC.

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“Greater Ghost” Connects Death and the “Intimate Relationship One Has with the Body and the World”

An interview with poet Christian J. Collier on his full-length poetry collection, “Greater Ghost.”

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Dueling Pianos: Nicholas Molbert and William Fargason in Conversation

A conversation between poets Nicholas Tolbert, author of “Altars of Spine and Fraction,” and William Fargason, author of “Velvet.”

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“It Started With An Obsession”: Jesse Lee Kercheval On Making Her Graphic Memoir “French Girl”

An interview with the poet, writer, translator and visual artist Jesse Lee Kercheval on the narrative illustrations in her graphic memoir.

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“Beginning Again”: Katrina Powell on What Oral Histories Tell Us About Appalachia

An interview with Katrina Powell about “Beginning Again: Stories of Movement and Migration in Appalachia.”

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“The Ill-fitting Skin”: Shannon Robinson Speaks on Anger, Transformation, and Discomfort with an Ill-fitting Skin

An interview with Shannon Robinson about her new short story collection, “The Ill-Fitting Skin.”

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“This is the Story of a Haunting”: Darrin Doyle Talks Horror in “Let Gravity Seize the Dead”

An interview with Darrin Doyle about his new book, “Let Gravity Seize the Dead.”

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