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“sweet home lambs”: an interview with translator Jake Schneider [by Kathleen Heil]
Jake Schneider is a Berlin-based editor and translator from the German, born in 1988 in New Jersey. The incoming Editor-in-Chief of SAND, Berlin's English-language literary journal, his literary translations have appeared in Circumference, Washington…
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Silence Please: The Appeal of Dance During Hard Times [by Stacey Lehman]
Sara Mearns in Alexei Ratmansky’s Fandango. At back: (L to R): Scott Borg, Elena Heiss, and Felix Fan of the FLUX Quartet. Photo: Erin Baiano “Wartime, here as abroad, made everyone more eager for…
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Kathleen Heil, Guest Author November 7-11 and Introducing Martin Stannard
moystrela; Berlin, Oct 2016 This week we welcome Kathleen Heil as our guest author. Kathleen is a writer, translator, and dancer based in Berlin. Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker,…
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ABOUT ERIC ERIC [by Martin Stannard]
Of course, it’s not his real name, though I am led to believe one half is real; the other half, as he once remarked, is “an act of concealment.” I first came across Eric…
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Pete Ferry Weighs in on the Cubs
Thoughts on Being a Cubs Fan Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow In The Great Gatsby, when Jordan Baker asks if she is missed in Chicago, Nick Carraway says, “The whole town is desolate. All the…
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Roy Giles and Corey Mingura of Arcadia Press & Arcadia Literary Magazine
DD: Susan Howe famously ends her book, My Emily Dickinson, with the lines: “Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration beyond gender. Poetry is redemption from pessimism. Poetry is affirmation in negation, ammunition…
