“With writing, I have so much engagement inside of me: the breath and music of the words as they fill the page, the themes, and the urgency of what must be caught before it disappears…”
Lauren Camp, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Katy Lewis Hood.
From Leonard Cohen to literary translations, a hip hop artist to a Hollywood musical, bildungsroman to the passing of a great art critic, The Missing Slate’s 2016 picks reflect a year of diversity and nostalgia.
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“Leaving traces of its own continual metamorphosis, the book is an echo chamber, a hall of mirrors.”
Katy Lewis Hood reviews ‘Unbearable Splendor’, by Sun Yung Shin.
“I don’t want to have an identity. I am just one of the regular people who carry wounds and sadness with them, but try to recover and live. I believe in the dignity of ordinary life.”
In our August Poet of the Month interview, Kim Yideum talks to Katy Lewis Hood (via translator Ji Yoon Lee).
Katy Lewis Hood interviews The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, Kim Yideum, with Kim Yideum’s answers displayed in the original Korean.
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“Travelling back and forth is a privilege, but I’ve developed a sort of chronic homesickness. So I use writing about the place I’m longing for as an antidote; I see islands as stories and stories as islands.” Julia Rose Lewis, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for June 2016, in conversation with Katy Lewis Hood.
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