After Jennifer S. Cheng 1: the sea captured in a glass 2: a homophone for having enough for leftovers, a synonym for abundance 3: the fish, who have already forgotten you. It’s not personal 4: where memory fails, there’s still imagining 5: you. Not as an ocean but outside 6: glass and/or acrylic
Read MoreWhat is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? As a writer, I prefer creative nonfiction because I simply lack the creativity to make up
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write that interests you/draws you in? When I was in the third grade, I wrote a poem for Danny, the shiest human
I’m just starting to make caramel in my parents’ kitchen in New Jersey when my mother pulls a great big hamper of laundry up to the counter across from me and starts
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m drawn to the immediacy and rawness of poetry. I like getting caught up in the
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I write in all genres, and I’m often most interested in the similarities and differences between
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? I’m most drawn to poems which are written for the ear and invite out-loud readings. I
THOMAS MIRA Y LOPEZ is the author of The Book of Resting Places (Counterpoint 2017). His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, and The Kenyon Review Online, among others. He is an editor
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? A lot of poetry can be stuck inside an echo chamber of self-admiration. That doesn’t interest
What is it about the genre or cross-genre you write in that interests you/draws you in? Fiction is just a quilt of all our own life experiences. It’s the truths we know