"Adrian Matejka, the First Black Editor to Lead Poetry Magazine"
"The good thing about a democracy is that if you have a lot of voters of color, they can vote for candidates of color, but that's not how arts organizations work. It's not how literary journals work. It's not how magazines work; but now they do. Michelle is here; our staff is incredibly diverse and we're all holding hands in common cause to make (the magazine) look more like what our community looks like."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Leah Nieboer on Hillary Gravendyk's Harm
"I keep reading it because it makes me desire its inevitable cyborgs and monsters, its palpitated time-signatures, its 'pink dreaming riot.' I, too, want to get weaved in. Or—I am already weaved in, and desire a present, and future, that is livable with, and inclusive of, a chronic error-measure. Give me less of that narrative 'cure' imposed 'across an abrupt jumble of absences' and more of this speculative wildness." |
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