Category: Interview
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We Are All We Have: An Interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon
Emily Jungmin Yoon is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco | HarperCollins 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The book was released in Korean as 우리 종족의…
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Remember Us Too: An Interview with Shilpi Suneja
by Chandanie Somwaru I met with Shilpi Suneja on a sunny O’ahu day, where we shared in our love for food, the rhythms of Chutney music, and shared giggles over things our mothers do. Encountering Suneja’s poetic storytelling carried me into a world where it made me wonder about home, about the language we speak…
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The Craft of Documentary Poetics: An Interview with Mai Der Vang
April 11, 2024 Mai Der Vang is an internationally recognized poet whose most recent book Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021) was awarded the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and an American Book Award. Yellow Rain is a work of documentary poetry that grapples with the biological chemical attacks against Hmong…
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