“Poetry can play a crucial role in finding a language of vulnerability, in holding out a mirror to our world’s blemishes…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Daniel Voskoboynik talks to Audrey Ryback.
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“While war and civil strife tear at parts of Ukraine, Chernobyl keeps its eerie silence.” Nellie Barg recalls the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.
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“Fiction possesses the ability to reveal stories that facts, figures and historical accounts tend to gloss over…” Zuha Siddiqui, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for May, talks to Umamah Wajid.
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“My grandmother feared ghosts. I mocked her.// Alone, I learned that despair is a graveyard…”
Weekend poem, by Juleus Ghunta.
“it was being there, being so young/ and death so far off,/ when there were no dead no funeral processions,/ only the living, the laughter…” Poem of the Week (June 9), by Ana LuÃsa Amaral. Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Original Portuguese text of Ana LuÃsa Amaral’s poem ‘Das Mais Puras Memórias’.
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“Often, I’m writing to myself or to a loved one, I’m writing to a small worry, a tiny sense of an idea…” Continuing his Virtual Book Tour, Ryan Van Winkle talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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“I was sleeping, exact as bread/ to the lips of the famished. I was formidable in/ my sleep…” Poem of the Week (May 28), by Allison Grayhurst.
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“In general, creative writing needs rules and constraints, ways to more or less artificially limit the unlimited options available to the writer.” Jarkko Tontti talks to Camille Ralphs in the latest instalment of our Poet of the Month series.
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“The right eye consists of two oceans:/ Black and white…” Poem of the Week (May 19), by Amir Darwish.
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