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A Conversation with Carolyn Forché
“I think there’s ancestral memory, there’s deep memory in our DNA carried from generation to generation. I think in the depths of our being as a species, we recognize this moment, we recognize the threat.”
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A Conversation with Lydia Davis
“For a long time, Grace Paley’s approach was my model: politics, family, and friendships first — and writing second. I may have that wrong, or may be idealizing, but that seems to me at the moment a good balance.”
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The Black Book Interactive Project: A Talk With The Scholars
“BBIP created a pipeline for new critical discoveries by examining novels that hadn’t been subjected to extensive data analysis. The metadata schema unlocks information not visibly associated with race. Diving deep into the work tells us more about literary culture and responses.”
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A Conversation with Carl Phillips on the 100th Anniversary of the Yale Younger Poets Prize
“From the start, I had a diversity of submissions, and this seems to have been the result of my having been announced as the judge. As soon as that happened, there was a lot of conversation among writers of color and queer writers, suggesting that they felt the Yale series was becoming more open.”
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Food, Drink & Poetry: A Conversation with Emily O’Neill
“I think of the emotional connection between big life events and food, like — what was I eating when my dad died? Was I eating when my dad died? Or what do you eat when you break up with someone, or what do you eat when you’re depressed?”
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“The Mystery of Persistence” // a Conversation About Poetry with G. C. Waldrep, curated by Victoria Chang
“When I was at Iowa in the MFA program, I was surprised by how many of my peers weren’t waiting to be astonished. As readers, they went to literature for something else.”