BOMB Mag
Nuar Alsadir interviewed by Cathy Park Hong: “Racism is a form of perversion.”
McSweeney’s
An interview with Brenda Hillman: “I like the idea of utterances that push through things.”
WUSF
Listen to this interview with Brian Broome: “My story is probably one that Governor DeSantis would want to ban.”
Brooklyn Rail
Akil Kumarasamy with John Keene: “There are many moments where we feel the weight of a lifetime in an instance.”
PBS
Airea D. Matthews and Wes Matthews, her son, are both poet laureates working to inspire others.
WBUR
Danté Stewart discusses Tyre Nichols’ death: “…more than police brutality. That was a lynching.”
Southeast Review
An interview with Sun Yung Shin on spells, workings of empire, boxes in churches and in the brain.
The New Yorker
An interview with Jorie Graham on distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of the medium of poetry.
LARB
A conversation with Meet Us by the Roaring Sea author Akil Kumarasamy on pushing against the self in fiction.
The Yale Review
Five questions with Jenny Xie on memory, migration, and poetry: “the poems [try] to thin the membrane between the living and the dead.”