Interview
“How would a Midwestern girl experience jealousy? And how would that Midwestern girl experience that jealousy if she also happened to be Filipina American? What if she was an eldest daughter, or an academic achiever, or a chronic people pleaser?” On the blog, Saturne Browne interviews Bea Bolongaita on her new chapbook, The Tomato Woman (Sunset Press, 2023).
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Recently, Leela Raj-Sankar chatted with Carina Solis about the process behind her poem “American Dream,” published in Rust & Moth, which you can read here. This interview is part of “How I Wrote This,” a new series where Leela interviews poets about the process, inspiration, and influences behind their writing.
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“I think one of the scariest things to me about The Poetry World is how often many poets, especially academic poets, turn to physical violence as shorthand without thinking critically about it … I think we owe it to ourselves to really interrogate our relationship with metaphorical violence.” On the blog, Bella Rotker interviews Gaia Rajan on her new chapbook, Killing It (Black Lawrence Press, 2022).
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