Joanna Pearson

Tuesday December 16, 2025

Interviewed by Naomi Silverman Interview Conducted on December 12, 2025 What started “Deviants”? Why did you need to tell us this story? Back when I was in grad school getting an MFA in poetry, one of the other poets shared this theory that everyone is either a deviant, a conformist, or a recluse, and yet […]

Swimming South Off Key West

Friday May 16, 2025

Ernest Hilbert I wade into the warmth along the jetty.Sharp copper tracings of a sunset waveRide in, carrying light on its liquid peak. The wind is up. I dive. I rise to findA broad-winged pelican, a terrifyingSight at first, so close I could touch it. The bird holds still above me in the wind,White feathers […]

Reyumeh Ejue

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Yolanda Kwadey Interview Conducted on April 2, 2025 What prompted you to write “Natives”? I promise not to let this response get too longwinded because it’s a favorite chew-bone of mine, haha! I’m from Nigeria, but I now live in the US. When I was in Nigeria, I couldn’t wait to leave, just […]

Ernest Hilbert

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Chloe Cook and Taylor Light “Swimming South Off Key West” and “Unruled” exhibit a subtle and pleasant attention to sound, especially with internal rhyme. How do you employ prosody in your work? Do you actively reach for the rhymes, or do they subconsciously make their way into your poems? The sound of a […]

Brett Hymel Jr.

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Albertine Clarke In “Sweepstakes,” you have two ostensibly extraterrestrial characters, Glorp and Thoraxis. One of the things that interests me the most about this story is the role of the extraterrestrial, both within Dean’s internal world and outside of it. To phrase it as simply as I can—in writing, what is the role […]

Piotr Florczyk

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Jonathan Wolf You’ve said that your earliest poems (“doodles of thought and emotion”) arrived shortly after you moved from Kraków to California. What can you say about the urge to write? Was there any initial, galvanizing experience that set you chattering? And at what point—and how—did writing become more than a mere enjoyment? […]

People’s Overture

Friday May 16, 2025

Piotr Florczyk                 Arise, children—get dressedand eat your toast with gooseberry jam—                before it’s too late. To arms, parents—let’s march                the kids back to school.Our cities may be asleep, the worms       […]

Morris Collins

Wednesday April 24, 2024

“The Home Visit” by Morris Collins (Issue 33) has been published in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners.

Brad Felver

Wednesday April 24, 2024

“Orphans” by Brad Felver (Issue 33) has been published in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners.

Issue 38 Fall/Winter 2025

Wednesday April 24, 2024

Keisaku Palm

Tuesday January 16, 2024

Carol Moldaw for Miriam Sagan Gravity brought down the palm frond’s wideand weighted sheath-end first: the bark,still loosely attached like coarse black fringe,lashed my ear when the stalk fell straightfrom on high and thwacked the top of my crown. On my way to the internet-connected garage,taking the river-rock steps two at a timeto outrun the […]

Ampersand

Tuesday January 16, 2024

Nicholas Friedman We squeeze between erratics fuzzedwith moss to a stand of Krummholz firs,deranged, wind-sculpted, then step from the trailwhile he bends for breath. After a silence,he turns to face me. Finally, I think,he’ll use the word that we all fear,the one that names his mutinous blood.Instead, he explains how “ampersand”was once the 27th letter,before […]

Dear Geryon—

Tuesday January 16, 2024

Jehanne Dubrow At twelve I lashed my own magenta wingsbeneath my shirt, afraid of how they stirred,moved independently, soft whisperingsof feathers at my back. Ungainly bird,I sat alone, the schooldays like a cage.I hunched over a book, my scarlet handa tanager that pecked across the page,red fingers hopping through a meadowland.The only place I flew […]

Jehanne Dubrow

Saturday January 6, 2024

Interviewed by Taylor Johnson “Dear Geryon—,” “Dear Glass—,” “Dear Camera—,” and “Dear Cat’s Eye Marble—” all embody the form of a right-aligned sonnet. Could you share a little bit about how you employed form and formal structures when crafting these poems? How did the writing process shape or reflect their content? These four poems come […]

Nicholas Friedman

Friday January 5, 2024

Interviewed by Chloe Cook Could we begin with location? “Ampersand,” like other poems in your collection Petty Theft, is grounded in the Northeast where you currently live. (For example, “Cozy Cottages…” is set in Cape Cod.) What is your connection to the Northeast, and how does regionality inform your work? I appreciate the soft pitch […]