Interview by Diane Gottlieb “If You Think the Way to Learn,” the first poem in Ana Maria Spagna’s Mile Marker Six, takes us right to the heart of this collection: it moves from Spagna’s past to her present, from...
Interview by Diane Gottlieb Nick Olson, founder and editor in chief of the literary journal (mac)ro(mic), has a new book out, The Brother We Share—an innovative, alternate personal history, based on a true event: Olson’s 2016 suicide attempt, which...
Interview by Emily ChouTranslation to English of Alex Simões’ responses by Carolyne Wright PRISM’s Emily Chou sits down to speak with Alex Simões and Carolyne Wright about Alex’s poem “Cemetery of the New Blacks,” translated by Carolyne and published...
Photo credit: Andrew BattershillInterview by Emma Cleary I am so grateful to Suzannah Showler for making time to talk with me about “Most Nights,” winner of our Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms, published in our WONDER issue...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Questions of displacement and diaspora haunt Brandon Wint’s poetry. In Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020), Wint traverses the watery routes of memory to unearth the various ways that the spectres of history haunt modernity....
Interview by Uche Umezurike Yejide Kilanko’s new novel A Good Name (Guernica Editions, 2021) explores the complexities of relationships, traditions, and masculinities. Uche Umezurike sits down with the author to discuss the process behind her work. Uche Umezurike: A...
Interview by Kufre Usanga Uche Umezurike’s new collection Double Wahala, Double Trouble (Griots Lounge Publishing, 2021) touches on human relationships, the complexities of life, ecological degradation, police brutality, banditry and militancy, and masculinities. Umezurike illuminates various shades of troubles...
Interview by Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li This year’s 2021 Jacob Zilber Prize winners‘ stories, chosen by contest judge Téa Mutonji, explore themes of sexuality, identity, branding, desire, and connection. Their words are luminous—reflecting and challenging society’s profit off time,...
There is grimness and there is vitality in Tell the Birds Your Body is Not a Gun. Rayanne Haines engages with pain and scars, but is also familiar with warmth and tenderness, in her rendition of the personal and social—she...