contributor interview

Ben Gaa, a haiku poet, rings a pair of handbells at readings between each of his poems. Besides helping listeners catch their mental breaths, the chiming reinforces the spell that Gaa casts with his words:

A Note From The Editor: Our advisory editor Marvin Bell passed away on Dec. 14 at his home in Iowa City, surrounded by his family and with Chet Baker’s “You’d Be […]

By Robert Lowes “I have so many projects going on right now that if I say them all, I’ll sound like a crazy person.”  So says Jesse Lee Kercheval, a […]

Leigh Camacho Rourks lives in South Louisiana and on her best days can be found lazing in the sun. She is the managing editor for Rougarou, a journal of literature and […]

(Jump to Audio) We were fortunate to spend a whole afternoon and evening with poet/essayist Albert Goldbarth a few months ago. It was a great day with passionate talk across […]

Wilfredo Pascual’s essay You Have Me won the 2015 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction. Born and raised in the Philippines,

advisory editor Grace Cavalieri is the author of 18 poetry collections, 26 produced plays, and the texts of two operas, and is the co-author of The Italian Poet’s Cookbook. Read more about her here.

Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana in 1954. When he was six, his family moved to Chicago, then lived in Tampa before settling in Miami when he was a teenager. He has published seven collections of poetry, the last five with Carnegie Mellon U. Press. His third book, Cuba, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.