Small Press Points: Damaged Goods Press
Since 2015 this indepedent press in Richmond, Virginia, has been championing “offbeat books” of poetry and lyrical nonfiction by queer and trans writers.
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Article Archive
Articles from Poet & Writers Magazine include material from the print edition plus exclusive online-only material.
Literary MagNet: Hasanthika Sirisena
The author reflects on five journals that published essays from their debut collection, Dark Tourist.
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Q&A: Anitra Budd of Coffee House Press
Anitra Budd got her start at Coffee House Press as an intern and now serves as publisher and executive director of the press. She discusses her approach to leadership and putting people before profit.
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A Place Built by Poets for Poets
After collecting poetry books to lend to students, poet and educator Hiram Sims opened the Sims Poetry Library in Los Angeles. Today the library boasts a collection of over six thousand books and serves as a home base for poets in the community.
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Agent Advice: Monica Odom of Odom Media Management
The agent answers questions about attracting agents using self-published books and whether to use a summary or a writing sample to pitch a memoir.
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A Freeing Space: Our Seventeenth Annual Look at Debut Poets
Ten debut poets who published in 2021, including Threa Almontaser and Shangyang Fang, discuss the inspiration for their books, their writers block remedies, and advice for other poets.
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Ten Questions for Obed Silva
“If you feel that the story is good and that it needs to be read, then keep at it until you’re happy with it.” —Obed Silva, author of The Death of My Father the Pope
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Craft Capsule: Translating Monozygotic Triplets
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost shares how growing up between different languages and countries has led her to challenge conventional wisdom about the art of translation.
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Ten Questions for Neel Patel
“This was the book I was meant to write my whole life.” —Neel Patel, author of Tell Me How to Be
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Craft Capsule: On Cultural Specificity, or the Brazilian Padaria
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost expresses the limits of translation when it comes to culturally specific institutions and terms.
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Ten Questions for James Hannaham
“Thinking is really about 90 percent of the work.” —James Hannaham, author of Pilot Impostor
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Craft Capsule: On Google Maps
The translator of Migratory Birds and Permafrost uses Google Maps to immerse herself in the settings of her translation projects.
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Ten Questions for Truong Tran
“I wrote this book with the constraint of honesty.” —Truong Tran, author of book of the other
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Ten Questions for Claire Oshetsky
“It felt as if my protagonist was in the room with me.” —Claire Oshetsky, author of Chouette
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Craft Capsule: The Thing About Food
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat revels in writing about food and the varied contexts surrounding its consumption.
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Ten Questions for Domenico Starnone and Jhumpa Lahiri
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Domenico Starnone and Jhumpa Lahiri, the author and the translator of Trust.
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Craft Capsule: Pet Sitting
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat leverages his intrusive thoughts from pet sitting for fiction.
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GalleyCrush: Eleutheria
Allegra Hyde’s Eleutheria, forthcoming from Vintage on March 8, 2022.
Running a Marathon: Writing Lessons in 26.2 Miles
An author finds similarities between training for a marathon and finishing a book: Both require stamina, perseverance, good habits, maybe a ritual or two, and the ability to keep fear at bay.
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Ten Questions for Okezie Nwọka
“What does it take for any of us to change our core beliefs?” —Okezie Nwọka, author of God of Mercy
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Craft Capsule: Bisexuality on the Page
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat shares the evolution of his thinking on how to represent bisexuality and queerness in fiction.
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Cover Reveal: Fighting Is Like a Wife
A first look at Eloisa Amezcua’s Fighting Is Like a Wife, which is forthcoming from Coffee House Press on April 12, 2022.
Ten Questions for Shayla Lawz
“I was using the text as a future image of what my own life could be.” —Shayla Lawz, author of speculation, n.
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Craft Capsule: On Writing Fat Characters
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat seeks to write fat characters for whom fatness is not always an immediate concern.
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GalleyCrush: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
Sasha Fletcher’s Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, forthcoming from Melville House on February 8, 2022.