BEHIND THE POEM Grace Arenas’s “If a springbok were to compete on Season 24 of ABC’s ‘The Bachelor’” The concept of hot-girl-as-springbok gives Grace Arenas the inspiration for a poem at the intersection of entertainment and sonic discovery.
CONVERSATIONS Transcending Borders to Global Authorship In this feature piece, Lucy Scott, Denice Gravenstijn, and Annemarie Toebosch recap highlights from their interview with author Vamba Sherif, in which he discusses his life, his short story “Flame Trees,” and his forthcoming memoir.
ON CRAFT Vera and I: On POV, Projection, and a Problem Narrator Marisa P. Clark contextualizes her novel excerpt from the spring 2020 issue.
BEHIND THE POEM Ellen Goldstein’s “Almanac for Nonbelievers” I wrote the first draft of “Almanac for Nonbelievers” at a borrowed kitchen table in Vermont, staring out at the ridge above a neighboring field. I grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia but have spent most of my adult life in coastal New England. I was happy to be back in a place where mountains […]
ARTIFACTS We do not live in vain Jeannine Pitas’s photo essay crafts a place of entry into the world of one of Uruguay’s most beloved poets.
CONVERSATIONS Laying Down One Line After Another Comics contributor Miriam Libicki talks with Shenandoah comics editor Chris Gavaler on residency life in Angoulême and the arc of her evolving graphic memoir project.
CONVERSATIONS Existing Between Two Worlds Emerging fiction writer María Alejandra Barrios Vélez talks to us about her process, her influences, and the intricacies of bilingual writing.
ON CRAFT Naming My Obsession Fiction writer Brenda Peynado untangles the connections between self-discovery, faithfulness, and her novel as it falls into place.
CONVERSATIONS Setting the Table: An Exchange of Words and Images Artist Xavier Tavera, whose photograph appears on the landing page for Volume 69 Number 1, had a conversation with poet Mike Soto, whose work also appears in the issue. The two shared their work over email and discussed the purpose of art, the nature of time, and memory’s relationship to truth. Here is a transcript of their conversation.
