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Ready To Serve: Black Eyed Peas & Supportive Colleagues As Emotional Mise En Place [by Lindsay Daigle]
(Ed note: This is the third post in our Ready to Serve series. You can find previous posts here. sdh) Eleven Madison Park In 2009, my Saturdays began like this— I’m bobbypinning my hair…
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Review of Julie Babcock’s Autoplay [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Julie Babcock's stunning first collection of poems, Autoplay, offers spare, carefully crafted lyrics that are as familiar as they are uncanny. By invoking the seemingly tame imagery of Midwestern cities, the poems in this…
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Poetic Delirium [by Alan Ziegler]
Good writings happen to those who wait. Children’s author Enid Blyton told Peter McKellar—who was doing research on the imagination—that she has “merely to open the sluice gates.” With her portable typewriter on her…
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Dismantling Categories of Thought: A Conversation Between Kristina Marie Darling & Sarah Vap
KMD: I've truly enjoyed reading all three of your books, and was intrigued by the dream-like quality of the poems in Arco Iris. They seem at once ethereal and carefully grounded in concrete imagery,…
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Review of John Gallaher’s In a Landscape [by Kristina Marie Darling]
John Gallaher's finely crafted poetry collection, In a Landscape, reads as an exercise in blurring boundaries, an effort to challenge the received models of writing, reading, and authorship that we have become accustomed to. …
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Formal Innovation & Textual Rupture: A Conversation Between Kristina Marie Darling & Tony Trigilio [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Kristina Marie Darling: Your new book, The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 1, offers readers an extended engagement with 1960s mass culture, exploring the myriad ways that television and radio shape the…
