"You want people to understand your threshold moments, and these moments, by nature, comprise both the illegible and the legible."
On the site, Assistant Editor Leila Chatti interviews Renee Gladman. Renee joins us this Thursday for a reading in the Elliston Room.

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Congratulations to contributor Alyson Mosquera Dutemple on today's publication of MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! with Cornerstone Press.
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“I used to think my poetics was chalked up to being radically tender, but I consider that to be under the wider umbrella of a kind of poetics of disbelief.”
On the site, Assistant Editor Prince Bush interviews Jeric Smith on his interests and poetics.
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We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards: David Joez Villaverde (poetry), Alice Hatcher (nonfiction), and Anna Story (fiction)! Many thanks to all of this year's entrants. Read the full list of finalists on our site. Link in thread:
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amazed & grateful to be included on this list.
We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards: David Joez Villaverde (poetry), Alice Hatcher (nonfiction), and Anna Story (fiction)! Many thanks to all of this year's entrants. Read the full list of finalists on our site. Link in thread:
"Like a sacked || tomb the oven / yawns— || even girded / with steel || it fails to keep / the dead in or || living out."
Today on the site, Quinn Franzen's "The Kiln" renders a familiar act of making into lines of suggestion and vividness. Link in thread.
We're delighted to announce the winners of this year's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards: David Joez Villaverde (poetry), Alice Hatcher (nonfiction), and Anna Story (fiction)! Many thanks to all of this year's entrants. Read the full list of finalists on our site. Link in thread:
















