Taisia Kitaiskaia is a Russian-American poet and writer whose work has developed an idiosyncratic mythopoetics that revels in language’s creaturely underbelly, as seen most recently in The Nightgown and Other Poems, a poetry collection published by Deep Vellum in 2020. Kitaiskaia generously answered my questions over the course of several […]
Forthcoming from Solid Objects on September 28, Samuel Amadon’s Listener is a prosodic exercise in how far the poetic “I” can stretch when the object takes on the power of the subject. This process both begins and ends with an evocation of the epic tradition that is anything but naïve […]
I first became familiar with Shaqayeq Ahmadian’s work after I found her page on Instagram one night in 2018. Since then, I have followed her development as an artist and we have become friends, bonding over the experience of being young women working in creative fields; however, because she lives […]
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