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.”

Brian Broome

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.”

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.”