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Throughout her studies in the sciences as well as arts, she’s become interested in bridging the interdisciplinary split and hopes to promote more creativity across fields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1618406996351-8Q9OUBA7T723QBNCC3I3/52cf64af-6167-4d65-b630-82a9bfdf22fe.jpg Founders Statement - Anna Seidel A Dutch-German economist and writer, Anna Seidel is currently completing a Master's in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford alongside a career in finance working for a globally leading US-based investment firm. She previously read at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics, business, finance and philosophy. As a writer, she published a novella in the German-speaking markets while in high-school and successfully participated in National Short Story Competitions winning the A.E. Johann Literature Prize. 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His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal, The London Magazine, The Rialto, and elsewhere. His poetry and fiction have appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. He has published a short story collection, The Blink That Killed the Eye, and two collections of poetry, Heterogenous and After the Formalities, the latter a Poetry Book Society recommendation that was selected too as one of The Telegraph’s and The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2019 and shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. Anthony has been awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. Anthony is also artistic director of Out-Spoken, an honorary fellow of the University of Roehampton, and the founder of Out-Spoken Press, an independent publisher of poetry and critical writing that aims to challenge the lack of diversity in British publishing. 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She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and she currently lives in Los Angeles where she is the program chair of Antioch’s Low-Residency MFA Program. Photo by Margaret Molloy https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/exile-for-nadezhda-mandelstam daily 0.75 2020-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594203901874-LLH6KEIX2YLL1L0R6AHB/napkin+poetry-Exile.jpg Exile for Nadezhda Mandelstam - Exile for Nadezhda Mandelstam by Marlo Starr Faces flash at the window, tires hiss on wet cobblestone. Here, even the rain is listening. The poet with his pocket Inferno keeps quiet at the border, awaiting arrest. Behind his closed eyes, cities constellate in floating dark, elephantine sculptures slump over ruins. 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Coiled between syllables, I measure the distance one might run from pole to pole without being seen. The only rule one needn’t take to heart: proximity to threat is one sort of safety. An arrow spins wildly around its ordinals, where the swelling silence unbrackets memory. Like the boy in the pit who pried apart my lips, his sandbox fingernail raked hard across my gums, I am trying to break open. I told no one. I am telling you now. Photo by Mathilde Karrèr https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/melancholy-breakfast daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594213083133-615RLVONI4PEYV3TRM8P/small1-20%281-20von-203%29.jpg Melancholy breakfast - Melancholy breakfast by Frank O'Hara Melancholy breakfast blue overhead blue underneath the silent egg thinks and the toaster's electrical ear waits the stars are in "that cloud is hid" the elements of disbelief are very strong in the morning Photo by Anna Zesiger https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/landscape-with-past-and-future daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594212882769-JYBQB91J7NEU795LIH5F/napkin+poetry-landscape+with+past+-+future.jpg Landscape with Past and Future - Landscape with Past and Future by Marlo Starr When my brother takes the gun, he squares his body to the horizon, right eye bunched around the viewfinder, squinting hard into empty miles. The sky is a wall. We stuff our ears with paper. A can bucks and leaps as my brother stops the recoil with his body. A metal ping rings in the wind. I taste iron and clay, remember the child’s game we played: with coins in our mouths, we’d travel safe across Styx. Did we trust the myth? Empty shells litter the ground. The shots shrink the space between here and there, exceeding the speed of sound. In sight but beyond hearing range, semi trucks barrel across the plain. The future crouches small in the distance. Photo by Mathilde Karrèr https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/how-poetry-can-reach-us-an-interview-with-dr-jeff-bowen daily 0.75 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594297259966-K3PBDV2QOJWWPGFGT7LA/profilejeff.jpg How Poetry Can Reach Us: An Interview with Dr. Jeff Bowen - Dr. Jeff Bowen Dr. Jeff Bowen is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. His research interests include how individuals maintain the relationships that are most important to them and overcome conflicts of interest to do so, how social partners communicate with one another, and how they think about the goals they are pursuing and the temptations that might lead them astray. He also focuses on how words and pictures can influence people’s thoughts and feelings about others, and how people make meaningful decisions with respect to their goals and relationships. Photo courtesy of Dr. Jeff Bowen https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-maya-c-popa daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594385990227-JAR0TO343PIZ8OD63R10/Maya-Catherine-Popa_0.jpg Interview with Maya C Popa - About the poet: Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith (runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong), as well as two chapbooks, You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave and The Bees Have Been Canceled (PBS Summer Choice). She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Oxford Poetry Society, and Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, among others. Popa is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly and an English teacher and director of the Creative Writing Program at the Nightingale-Bamford school in NYC, where she oversees visiting writers, workshops, and readings. She holds degrees from Oxford University, NYU, and Barnard College (‘11) and is currently pursuing her PhD on the role of wonder in poetry at Goldsmiths, University of London. Photo courtesy of Maya Popa https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-amanda-gorman daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1595000649014-E7TDB81VL8VN3ASQ93NL/Credit+Stephanie+Mitchell%5B1%5D%5B2%5D%5B1%5D.jpg Interview with Amanda Gorman - About the poet: At 22, Amanda Gorman is heralded as "the next great figure in American poetry." Amanda made history in 2017 by being named the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Sociology. Since publishing a poetry collection at 16, her writing has won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others. Amanda has performed 4th of July and Thanksgiving poems for CBS and she has spoken at events and venues across the country, including the Library of Congress and Lincoln Center. She has received a Genius Grant from OZY Media, as well as recognition from Scholastic Inc., YoungArts, the Glamour magazine College Women of the Year Awards, and the Webby Awards. She currently writes for the New York Times newsletter The Edit and recently signed a two-book deal with Viking (a division of Penguin Random House) after a bidding war involving eight publishers. Most recently, she traveled to Slovenia with Prada as a reporter on the company's latest sustainability project, and penned the manifesto for Nike's 2020 Black History Month campaign. She is the youngest board member of 826 National, the largest youth writing network in the United States. Photo by Stephanie Mitchell https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-inua-ellams daily 0.75 2020-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1594920561638-XEGQZMWNDCOQ9KG47T4D/Inua-Ellams-Image-Credit-Oliver-Holmes+2.jpg Interview with Inua Ellams - About the poet: Born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua Ellams is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and his published books of poetry include Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, The Wire-Headed Heathen, #Afterhours and The Half-God of Rainfall – an epic story in verse. His first play The 14th Tale was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth Barber Shop Chronicles sold out two runs at England’s National Theatre. He is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant and completing his first full poetry collection The Actual. He lives and works from London, where he founded the Midnight Run, a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Photo by Oliver Holms https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/finding-a-thinker-in-yourself-interview-with-dr-philip-davis daily 0.75 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1597505282568-ORU4WK4OPYX12JHJWLSW/IMG_1308.jpg Finding a Thinker in Yourself: Interview with Dr. Philip Davis - Dr. Philip Davis Professor Philip Davis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Reading for Life, an account of the work done by his research unit, the Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society (CRILS) in partnership with outreach charity The Reader since 2008. Davis has also written works on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Eliot, Bernard Malamud, and on the uses of memory from Wordsworth to Lawrence, and has written various books on literary reading. He is editor of OUP's series The Literary Agenda on the role of literature in the world of the twenty-first century and a new series entitled My Reading. Photo courtesy of Dr. Philip Davis https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/towards-the-hearts-frontier-an-interview-with-david-whyte daily 0.75 2020-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1601576029093-Q6CE94FW378JEJPSA512/Whyte.jpg Towards the Heart's Frontier: An Interview with David Whyte - DAVID WHYTE Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother among the hills and valleys of his father’s Yorkshire. He now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose, David Whyte holds a degree in Marine Zoology, honorary degrees from Neumann College and Royal Roads University, and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, Amazon and Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops. His life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organizational leadership. An Associate Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford, he is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many European, American and international companies. In organizational settings, using poetry and thoughtful commentary, he illustrates how we can foster qualities of courage and engagement; qualities needed if we are to respond to today’s call for increased creativity and adaptability in the workplace. He brings a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the nature of individual and organizational change, particularly through his unique perspectives on Conversational Leadership. Photo courtesy of Thomas Crocker https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/seeing-verse-in-threads daily 0.75 2020-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1602882387675-9A6KE9EGIGA54V0OK2VV/Susan+bw+headshot.jpg Seeing verse in threads - Susan Hollingsworth Each SuKaz jacket, created by Designer Susan Hollingsworth, is the product of 20 years living in international locales. A labor of love between designer, textile artisan, and seamstress, the wearable art pieces serve as tangible reminders of cultural craft passed down through generations. Telling a unique story, threads of ancient traditions are interwoven with flashes of contemporary elegance. Photo courtesy of Oxford Fashion Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1602882881588-TWLI0C25QN2BYT1FUJEX/SuKaz+Edit+-+1149.jpg Seeing verse in threads - Collage Photo Courtesy of Tiffany Saunders https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1602882487637-GPSO0LX0EC3L7T8B5MZR/SuKaz+Edit+-+0802.jpg Seeing verse in threads - Jackets from the Threads Collection Photo courtesy of Oxford Fashion Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1602883033138-ZH78F3INUNCF3CAV4W8Q/SuKaz+-+0096.jpg Seeing verse in threads - Paneled jacket from Threads Photo courtesy of Oxford Fashion Studio https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/3-poems-by-sallie-fullerton daily 0.75 2020-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1605393094624-126MROKJCB5V5LF34EOS/3.png 3 Poems by Sallie Fullerton - MARCH by Sallie Fullerton The conceit of the day is to exhaust myself, so I walk. The angel of hope appears to be melting it is surely the style but why is she missing a foot? Like me she is itching to trespass. We are locked tight to schedules defined by no single thing. I pull her from her pedestal (a feat, my muscles have gone rubber now) and place her under my arm. Pieces of earth and flecks of concrete fall from her stump, a pipeline breaks at her base, shoots muddy water to heaven. We walk together pace sunspots and eye library dollhouses break into an expensive deck overhanging thick wood. We close our eyes to meditate and laugh – peek sideways crack nuts in our teeth and spit casings in between deck slats. We walk magnificent leaving this and that, a trail of crap behind us. No one is out and the air smells like detergent – hopelessly clean. She’s much too heavy to bring home, my angel, I lay her flat, arms throbbing, homebound. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/3-poems-by-shanley-mcconnell daily 0.75 2020-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1605393679889-3CBNJ7U8TZ8XS2Z7D6EY/4.png 3 Poems by Shanley McConnell - ALL IS SOFT INSIDE by Shanley McConnell you did not survive alone to stay like this; quiet and bone knees hugged to skin, shirt, chest, undo this, stretched shadows paving stone : 5 4 3 2 done, midnight sun red stars spread. soft universe, speak to me. we live under one gun. gracious, unheard, not alone. Mao’s vision opens at the sight of the two children from SELAH ARCADIA Rain blows soft & unlatched the way winter arrives On Mao’s desk lies the letter unfolded to the reveal The rim of a world far, far away: Her sister, shoes tucked into her school skirt, Sitting on an egg crate crying their old house Her sadness oddly at home in her eyes *This poem is from the unfinished manuscript SELAH ARCADIA. The lyrical narrative follows five musicians who, commissioned by an anonymous composer to perform his latest quintet, tour Europe and the Mediterranean in pursuit of a poetic shaped place of vision, wonder and harmony—SM. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/2-poems-by-mitchell-glazier daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606049541441-M1DQLS8GZR0X8VC9D590/Instagram+Mitchell.png 2 Poems by Mitchell Glazier - Halogen Johnny Strung Among Orchids by Mitchell Glazier Twin golden mules ravishing On the trucker’s camel frock Swallow, Johnny—petrifying the tulle Nipple-clamped roadies of the ole Mountaineer Inn Glossy trolley restaurant w/ pixel Johnny in the curly coat Truckers oil utensils, slap Johnny—pup! Saffron water crayfish pot, unspooling Grey-ribbed corduroy cummerbunds Fruit-vicious, moxie-lace saloon brutes Of the slop bucket, scoring flesh of squid Johnny’s sopping mullet crop haunts The trucker’s fetal piggish rendering of the boy Johnny was before he cut up his sick brother & mailed him in a bedpan To the spoon-fingered man Eating rabbit in the clawfoot tub Glassy-eyed ransom mantis, beheading Floral symmetry Oxen cream, gummy cherry, tea-stained lung The trucker shuts Johnny in a seashell locket & drafts the rune of tripe & stag’s cock purpling By bolo tie noon Copper crematoria illusion bodice Johnny eats the carriage of gorgeous thin Mummified chowder & the seven sluiced cheeks Hung by the living wax museum Vomitorium rib-baying & oh! Johnny, Johnny, how dark the edges https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/2-poems-by-ashley-sojin-kim daily 0.75 2020-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1605988414878-L1F62WTSNCL0XF6GSJFE/Ashley+Sojin+Kim.png 2 Poems by Ashley Sojin Kim - Cleaning house after Don Paterson by Ashley Sojin Kim You took some time to sift through yearsold photos of yourself and glossy ones you’d mailed to her of your four smiling kids You smiled back before you caught yourself and gradually reverted to your somber mask of heavy, down-turned lips Your wife came with you, helping you collect things worth their keep— the photographs, a yellowed hymnal, prayers your mother wrote on flyleaf when her memory began to fade, the inked petitions listing progeny’s names— and tossing all the rest https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/breaking-the-golden-handcuffs-an-interview-with-alexi-lubomirski daily 0.75 2020-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606414863312-YEEVEGX3XVFB0PJPIFRY/G0032734+3797-43A+141_Man+Under+Water+Standing.JPG Breaking the Golden Handcuffs: An Interview with Alexi Lubomirski Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606414340200-DV7O9I56T9SESQYZLYIT/cover.jpg Breaking the Golden Handcuffs: An Interview with Alexi Lubomirski - Talk to Me Always Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606414694909-3EWQZZ8SNLNOBVNK7B0V/IMG_8661+3797-12B+29_Alexi+and+Giada+Nose+to+Nose.JPG Breaking the Golden Handcuffs: An Interview with Alexi Lubomirski - Collage Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606414954796-D0LENB3DTTZGE2O65DX8/02_Giada_094+3797-03D+07_Giada.JPG Breaking the Golden Handcuffs: An Interview with Alexi Lubomirski - Portrait of Alexi’s wife, Giada Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1606415048482-F5TWR5JRF86V7F21YC5M/04_704_SA_ALEXILUBOMIRSKI_076+2bw.jpg Breaking the Golden Handcuffs: An Interview with Alexi Lubomirski - ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI Growing up in England and Botswana, Alexi Lubomirski is a narrative-based fashion photographer who has become an established name within the fashion industry with an impressive client list, shooting for such publications as Harpers Bazaar US, Harpers Bazaar UK, Vogue Mexico, Vogue Germany, Vogue Russia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Korea, Vogue China, Vogue Nippon, Men’s Vogue China, Numero Tokyo, W Korea, GQ USA and Allure. The photographer for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, he has also shot cover stars such as Beyoncé, Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lopez, Selma Hayek, Katy Perry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Scarlett Johansson, to name but a few. In 2008, Lubomirski had his first exhibition: TRANSIT, at MILK gallery in New York – a mixed media commentary on TV culture, comprised of pre-conceived film stills. In 2014, He published two books. Firstly, “DECADE”, a photography book highlighting the best of his fashion work from his first ten years as a photographer. Secondly, “PRINCELY ADVICE for a HAPPY LIFE”, a book written for his two young sons, on the virtues of behaving in a manner befitting a Prince in the 21st Century. In 2016, Lubomirski came out with his second photo book and exhibition, “DIVERSE BEAUTY”, a body of work that aimed to highlight a broader range of beauty than that which is presented to us in fashion magazines and campaigns. In 2020, Lubomirski published “TALK TO ME ALWAYS,” a collection of prose, poetry, and photography that explores explores the themes of love, loss, family, fatherhood, hope, courage, and inspiration through photopoetry. All proceeds from his books are donated to the charity Concern Worldwide of which Alexi is an ambassador. Photo courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-leung-rachel-ka-yin daily 0.75 2020-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1605988065838-E9VNA70PD6PVFLDWOZO7/Leung+Rachel+Ka+Yin.png Poem by Leung Rachel Ka Yin the summer critter speaks not of frost 夏蟲不可語冰 https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/2-poems-andreea-scridon daily 0.75 2020-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1605392678983-DV4EKGJKOX4B6G1ZQHS0/2.png 2 Poems Andreea Scridon - BANAL VERSE by Andreea Scridon Lapis Lazuli. Only two things on this planet compare to it: the blue of Voroneț and that of the Morpho butterfly but we’re not talking about nubility, we’re talking about iridescence, or the one time you showed yourself weak enough for a lifetime… maybe this blue will heal you of the disease whose name you have forgotten, the disease you don’t want to be healed of… https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-daisy-bassen daily 0.75 2020-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1609033803976-LJ1VCU7K1P40ID4NEZ2U/Daisy_Instagram.png Poem by Daisy Bassen (cherita) by Daisy Bassen https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/how-poetry-becomes-population-data-an-interview-with-dr-taylor-ellis daily 0.75 2021-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1609598240487-QXQKRPN8L9VZIIZKOHH5/TaylorEllis_NapkinPoetryReview_Headshot.jpg How Poetry Becomes Population Data: An Interview with Dr. Taylor Ellis - Dr. Taylor Ellis Dr. Taylor Ellis is a Professor of Social Work in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Jacksonville State University. He recently graduated with his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where his dissertation used mixed methods to explore Poetry and Youth Adjudicated for their Illegal Sexual Behaviors. Dr. Ellis published two articles in 2020, The Unity Wall project: A student-led community organizing effort to advance public discourse on social justice (Ruggiano et al., 2020), and an article that was seminal to his dissertation, Poetry authored by vulnerable populations as secondary data: Methodological approach and considerations (Ellis et al., 2020). Taylor is a program evaluator in his practice experience. Currently, he partners with the United Methodist Children’s Home (UMCH) to provide independent consulting on the evaluation of their Knabe Scholarship Higher Education program. Previously, Dr. Ellis worked with the Youth Services Institute in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as the lead evaluator for the evaluation of the Accountability Based Sex Offender Program: Continuum of Care (COC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) sponsored Multidisciplinary Abuse Prevention Services (MAPS) program. Right now, Taylor is preparing a spoken word poem to perform at the Ethel H. Hall African American Heritage Celebration on February 10th. Photo courtesy of Dr. Taylor Ellis https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-akosua-zimbia-afiriyie-hwedie daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1609010795469-BFMKM054I5GEMISHPQ8V/Akosua_Instagram.png Poem by Akosua Zimbia Afiriyie-Hwedie - IN my Version by Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/2-poems-by-jade-moira-lawrence daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1609011333817-D18DADZS5S0F2P3TFGCQ/Jade_Instagram.png 2 Poems by Jade Moira Lawrence - Toothpick by Jade Moira Lawrence spare up the patterns from your dirty knuckles & toothpick pleasure with a violent tongue I wonder if my dead ex lover is dancing in Hell or surviving in Heaven a Mother once told me “your dialect will be a Man's ruin” pull back the clouds like a lover's breath & punch out the stars vigorously does a breath always know it's heavy? we seem to be taking too many left turns here & we are always one sentence away from losing everything give hope the hands it needs to moisturise & a smile from a child in War will haunt the broadcasters I'm a guest hosting your name & he's burnt the mushrooms again you're a divine numbing spell & look at how you tire me to your bed https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-zoe-hitzig daily 0.75 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1609256223962-DS6L0FV38CJ1PXC6FCOA/L1003652-3.jpg Interview with Zoë Hitzig - About the poet: Zoë Hitzig is the author of Mezzanine (Ecco, 2020) and a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications in the US and the UK, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, and London Review of Books. Photo courtesy of Zoë Hitzig https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/beyond-how-tos-in-art-and-research-an-interview-with-dr-patricia-leavy daily 0.75 2021-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1612439928947-OHCVM3C0XKQO4PH35206/PL+photo+black+and+white+2.jpg Beyond "How-To's" in Art and Research: An Interview with Dr. Patricia Leavy - Dr. Patricia Leavy Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an independent sociologist and novelist. She was formerly Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of Sociology and Criminology, and Founding Director of Gender Studies at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. She has published over thirty books, earning commercial and critical success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into many languages. Among her book publications, she is the author of the landmark text, Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, now in its third edition. She is also series creator and editor for ten book series with Oxford University Press, Guilford Press, and Brill/Sense, including the ground-breaking Social Fictions series. She is also cofounder and co-editor-in-chief of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal. She has received numerous accolades for her books. Recently, her novel Film won the 2020 American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction, her novel Spark won the 2019 American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction and the 2019 Living Now Book Award for Adventure Fiction, and her Handbook of Arts-Based Research won the 2018 USA Best Book Award for best academic book. She has also received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Art Education Association. In 2016 Mogul, a global women’s empowerment network, named her an “Influencer.” In 2018, she was honored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame and SUNY-New Paltz established the “Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice.” Her website it www.patricialeavy.com. Photo courtesy of Patricia Leavy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1612439230909-XB19LWI6PT483L629VUT/PL+photo+black+and+white+w+Twinkle+2.jpg Beyond "How-To's" in Art and Research: An Interview with Dr. Patricia Leavy - Patricia Leavy with her Novel Twinkle Photo courtesy of Patricia Leavy https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/how-our-art-can-sustain-our-earth-an-interview-with-taylor-beidler daily 0.75 2021-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1614161525005-ONUWQ249EILLXHC4BO74/153651690_333912217998866_8571511817636256983_n.jpg How Our Art Can Sustain Our Earth: An Interview with Taylor Beidler - Taylor Beidler As a writer, Taylor is the inaugural recipient of the 2020 UEA New Forms Award through the National Centre for Writing. She holds an MA (Distinction) from the University of East Anglia, and is an MSt in Creative Writing candidate at the University of Oxford. She writes scripts, lyric essays, and fiction. As a teacher, she has taught writing workshops for the UEA Green Film Festival, Neurotales, and the Norwich Xrt Festival. Her teaching focuses on helping writers explore their writing through sensorial exploration and movement training. She also has extensive experience helping with academic writing for undergraduate and graduate level applications and essays, as well as personal statements. As a consultant, she recently worked with the Race to Zero 2020 November Youth Fashion Dialogues in lieu of COP26. She led and facilitated focus groups with youth leaders across the Global South, and presented her findings in a spoken-word poem to leading industry stakeholders. She also recently served as a Creative Consultant for Neurotales, a Neurodivergent and Mad writers group. She is passionate about using her tools as a creative practitioner to help others develop their narratives, be that as individuals, companies, or greater organizations. Photo by Quetzal Maucci Photography https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/to-remember-why-we-started daily 0.75 2021-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1616419341256-DCHS7P8KO166UQZPXZVM/47531611-2405-45c5-9792-8a6ee3c107c7.jpg TO REMEMBER WHY WE STARTED - Edna Moross Edna Moross is the creator of the account @Ednaschoice on Instagram, which is curated with the help of her grandchildren. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/exploring-isms-through-poetry-an-interview-with-arch-hades daily 0.75 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1619119530990-KEQ9B8R19Z9W9VC8QVG9/image0.jpg Exploring Isms - archibald hades Arch Hades is an acclaimed, bestselling British poet. Contemporary, yet classical, she is best known for writing lyrical poetry about modern romance, love and loss, in a traditional Romantic style. Photo courtesy of Arch Hades https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/whether-by-dora-malech daily 0.75 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1620652684619-U0VCWJTGXNUIW5PHRGIF/PHOTO-2021-05-03-07-27-52.jpg Whether by Dora Malech - Whether by Dora Malech a future read aloud spells out a could without you in your element leaves cold as our or and even with remains a wintery mix as sleet stung one unsettles gone potential ever forecast in a chance of cloud Art by Mustashrik https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/becoming-a-poet-scientist-interview-with-sandra-faulkner daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1617838220360-AEEMEYEFJOD8B322FPZ4/Faulkner.sign.jpg Becoming a Poet-Scientist: Interview with Sandra Faulkner - Dr. Sandra Faulkner Sandra L. Faulkner researches, teaches, and writes about relationships in NW Ohio at Bowling Green State University where she lives with her partner, their warrior girl, and three rescue mutts.Her poetry +images have appeared in Literary Mama, Ithaca Lit, Gulf Stream, Slippery Elm, Writer’s Resist, Rise Up Review!, S/tick and elsewhere. Her latest books are Poetic Inquiry: Craft, Method, & Practice (Routledge); Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response (Vernon co-edited with Abigail Cloud); Scientists and Poets #Resist (Brill coedited with Andrea England). She was the recipient of the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, and the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall “It’s a Way of Life Award” in narrative ethnography. Faulkner believes in the power of poetry to bear witness, provoke, and affect change. Photo courtesy of Sandra Faulkner https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/shifting-how-we-see-an-interview-with-dr-guillaume-thierry daily 0.75 2021-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1619045310530-TUXIC5CSI1L3LDV0TEBR/image001.jpg Shifting How We See: An Interview with Dr. Guillaume Thierry - Dr. Guillaume Thierry Using experimental psychology and electroencephalography, Guillaume Thierry studies language comprehension in the auditory and visual modalities, and mainly the processing of meaning by the human brain, i.e., semantic access. Since he started his career at Bangor University in 2000, Professor Thierry has investigated a range of themes, such as verbal/non-verbal dissociations, visual object recognition, colour perception, functional cerebral asymmetry, language-emotion interactions, language development, developmental dyslexia and bilingualism. Since 2005, Prof. Thierry’s has received funding form the BBSRC, the ESRC, the AHRC, the European Research Council, and the British Academy to investigate the integration of meaning in infants and adults at lexical, syntactic, and conceptual levels, using behavioural measurements, event-related brain potentials eye-tracking and functional neuroimaging, looking at differences between sensory modalities and coding systems (verbal / nonverbal), and different languages in bilinguals. Prof. Thierry’s core research question is how the human brain crystallises knowledge and builds up a meaningful representation of the world around it. He now focuses on linguistic relativity and the philosophical question of mental freedom. Since 2010, his applied work has also taken him on the path of knowledge transfer to public audiences and professional bodies in domains such as Health & Safety, Environmental Protection, and Global Well-Being by means of public lectures, workshop and immersive theatrical events (Cognisens, Cerebellium). Photo courtesy of Guillaume Thierry https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/physics-art-and-other-ways-of-looking-an-interview-with-dr-marcelo-gleiser daily 0.75 2022-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1619555094348-G380IWR5LUFY0TCVM4JJ/20151019-Marcelo-Gleiser-EB-005.jpg Physics, Art, and Other Ways of Looking: An Interview with Dr. Marcelo Gleiser - Dr. Marcelo Gleiser Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his Ph.D. from King's College London and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a Fellow and past General Councilor of the American Physical Society. He is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate, an honor he shares with Mother Tereza, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and scientists Freeman Dyson and Martin Rees. Also in 2019, he won the Education Leadership Award from Educando by Worldfund Foundation. His five books in English on the multifaceted connections between science, philosophy, and religion have been published in 15 languages, and include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected. A leading public intellectual and world-renowned theoretical physicist interested in cosmology and the emergence of complexity in Nature, he has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, and more than a thousand essays and op-eds, and frequently participates in TV documentaries and radio shows in the US and abroad. He is the co-founder of the NPR blog on science and culture,13.7. He currently directs the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College. Photo courtesy of Marcelo Gleiser https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/3-poems-by-brad-leithauser daily 0.75 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1620651779594-LJXDV1YM688WW7H6L2H5/PHOTO-2021-04-29-11-42-31.jpg 3 Poems by Brad Leithauser - 3 Poems by Brad Leithauser Look not in your heart, that unreliable narrator, but to an earth apart: one devoted to creation as the volcano, to revision as the ocean. Art by Mustashrik https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-jane-draycott daily 0.75 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1620653195792-A2GYFSS9AQS34AMUEWCA/PHOTO-2021-04-29-11-42-30.jpg Poem by Jane Draycott - Once I Asked if We Could Take a Rain Check by Jane Draycott Look at these gathering clouds I said and you said but that’s the nature of the outdoors that even in the teeth of the storm, your clothes clinging to you like desperate children and down to your naked bones, it’s in that darkest hour you’ll see them, the ringing mountains and the water’s universe. And yes some small and distant call inside me did agree and so I stood bareheaded in the rain, alone it seemed, exhausted, sleeping on my feet till daylight came the hour of the blackbird and the wren, the returning hour of the shadow-game. Photo by Mustashrik https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-tjawangwa-dema daily 0.75 2021-06-28 https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-jaycee-billington daily 0.75 2021-06-28 https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/poem-by-caitlyn-kinsella daily 0.75 2021-06-28 https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/all-our-multiplicities-interview-with-heidi-seaborn daily 0.75 2021-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1625768922683-B7JY3803T5UP8XVZZXHC/Heidi+Seaborn+.jpg All Our Multiplicities: Interview with Heidi Seaborn - Heidi seaborn Heidi Seaborn wrote poetry as a teenager then pursued a career as a communications executive, serving as Chief Communications Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the European CEO for a major global communications firm and elsewhere. She moved 27 times, raised three children, divorced, remarried and then after a 40-year hiatus, returned to poetry in 2016. Since then, she’s authored two full-length collections of poetry, including PANK Books 2020 Poetry Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press, 2019) and three chapbooks of poetry including the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks (2021), as well as Finding My Way Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and Once a Diva (dancing girl press, 2021). She’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her poetry and essays have recently appeared in American Poetry Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry, Brevity, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Financial Times, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Washington Post and elsewhere. She is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU and a BA from Stanford University. After living all over the world, she now resides in her hometown of Seattle. www.heidiseabornpoet.com Photo courtesy of Heidi Seaborn https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-rufo-quintavalle daily 0.75 2021-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1631651129269-FYDUMDH8CKH84VR4N73Y/RufoQ_portrait_bw_3.jpg Interview with Rufo Quintavalle - Rufo Quintavalle Rufo Quintavalle was born in London in 1978, studied at Oxford and the University of Iowa and lives in Paris. He is the author of numerous books of poetry including hhereenow, Weather Derivatives, Dog, cock, ape and viper and Anyone for anymore. His most recent collection, Shelf, is a line-by-line rewrite of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself". He used to run the reading series, Poets Live, has sat on the editorial board of the literary journal, Upstairs at Duroc, and for several years taught creative writing at NYU’s Paris campus. Rufo is also an actor with experience in film, theatre and television. He is co-creator and lead actor in an innovative film and poetry project called Coldhearts: A Poetical. Photo courtesy of Rufo Quintavalle https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/listen-by-waqas-ahmed daily 0.75 2021-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1629736884874-LFDCMDJ9ZJDFZDQEGRI1/Screen+Shot+2021-08-23+at+12.35.11+PM.png Listen by Waqas Ahmed - the barren valley by Waqās Ahmed Listen. Listen to the sound of sacred silence Where are you, my loves? Our heart beats with your vibrations Our atoms long for your embrace We are yearning Yearning to be able to sing together again We are the Barren Valley The mountains that fortify your souls The birds that watch over you The House that centres you The magnetic field that lures you Yes, our parting is ordained And reflect we must But when this stillness is stilled We will sing again And sing too, we shall, in renewed harmony InshaAllah. This image is “Magnetism III” from the Khalili Collections. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-richie-hofmann daily 0.75 2021-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1635345335208-JOKDLMYBOW7862ORXGS7/Richie+Hofmann+in+France.jpg Interview with Richie Hofmann - Richie Hofmann Richie Hofmann’s new book of poems, A Hundred Lovers, is forthcoming from Knopf in 2022. He is the author of Second Empire (2015), and his poetry appears recently in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. A former Stegner Fellow, he teaches at Stanford University. Photo courtesy of Richie Hofmann https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/alina-stefanescu-interview-with-rushi-vyas-and-rajiv-mohabir daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1634310332854-HNY3IBHS4QMLLR3DJ7KR/Rushi+Vyas.jpeg Alina Stefanescu Interview with Rushi Vyas and Rajiv Mohabir - Rushi Vyas Rushi Vyas is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection When I Reach For Your Pulse (Four Way Books, 2023). Rushi has been a two-time finalist for the National Poetry Series, Runner-Up for the 2020 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest, Runner-Up for the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and Finalist for the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Born in Ohio, Rushi holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado-Boulder and now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand where he is working toward his PhD in Literature at Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou / University of Otago. His poems have appeared in A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa (AUP, 2021), Tin House, Adroit, Indiana Review, Redivider, Landfall (NZ), 32 Poems, Boulevard, Waxwing, The Offing, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1634310372901-Z10AFDNDW3QSUCDPURCY/Alina+Stefanescu.jpeg Alina Stefanescu Interview with Rushi Vyas and Rajiv Mohabir - Alina stefanescu Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and Co-Director of PEN America's Birmingham Chapter. She is currently working on a novel-like creature. More online atwww.alinastefanescuwriter.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1634310318975-OCTDJCI3S5MDHEXHRDY7/Rajiv+Mohabir.jpg Alina Stefanescu Interview with Rushi Vyas and Rajiv Mohabir - Rajiv Mohabir Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press 2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize; Eric Hoffer Honorable Mention 2018) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books 2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize, Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press 2019) which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets. His memoir received the 2019 Restless Books’ New Immigrant Writing Prize and is forthcoming 2021. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College, translations editor at Waxwing Journal. Photos courtesy of Alina Stefanescu https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-gabrielle-bates daily 0.75 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/3ec94cce-d3d7-4da0-877f-ded7730f294c/Gabrielle+Bates+by+LCole+2021+-7437+starred+bw+square+Napkin+Poetry.jpg Interview with Gabrielle Bates - Gabrielle Bates Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat, forthcoming from Tin House in early 2023. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she currently lives in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium and co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review, BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, Ambit, and elsewhere; she teaches occasionally through various literary nonprofits and the University of Washington Rome Center. Twitter: @GabrielleBates. www.gabriellebat.es Photo courtesy of Gabrielle Bates https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-dana-gioia daily 0.75 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/b01dbcee-5ab9-4aed-a1d2-e62f21e96208/Dana+Gioia+with+cat+Photo+copyright+%C2%A9+Star+Black.2015.jpg Interview with Dana Gioia - Dana Gioia Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. His poetry collections include Interrogations at Noon, which won the 2001 American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize as the best book of the year. His four critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (2002) and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2021). Gioia served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009 and as California State Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2019. His other awards include the Laetare Medal, Presidential Civilian Medal, and the Aiken-Taylor Award in Modern Poetry. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California. Photo courtesy of Dana Gioia https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-boris-drayluk daily 0.75 2022-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/b03c611b-dcbb-41cf-adfa-3a9ed3ceda09/Dralyuk+-+2018+-+small.jpg Interview with Boris Drayluk - Boris dralyuk Boris Dralyuk is a literary translator, poet, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he taught Russian literature for a number of years. He has also taught at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Guardian, Granta, and other journals. He is the author of Western Crime Fiction Goes East: The Russian Pinkerton Craze 1907-1934 (Brill, 2012) and translator of several volumes from Russian and Polish, including Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry (Pushkin Press, 2015) and Odessa Stories (Pushkin Press, 2016), Andrey Kurkov’s The Bickford Fuse (Maclehose Press, 2016), and Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is also the editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016), and co-editor, with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski, of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics, 2015). His collection My Hollywood and Other Poems will appear from Paul Dry Books in April 2022. He received first prize in the 2011 Compass Translation Award competition and, with Irina Mashinski, first prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky / Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition. In 2020 he received the inaugural Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing from the Washington Monthly. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Croft https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-jay-parini daily 0.75 2022-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/d67a7b1e-82e3-45e6-ad4d-618a7e7a7609/23183.jpg Interview with Jay Parini - Jay parini Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, and biographer. He graduated from both Lafayette College and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he received a Ph.D. in 1975. He has been teaching at Middlebury College since 1982. His six books of poetry include New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015 and The Art of Subtraction. He has written eight novels, including Benjamin’s Crossing, The Damascus Road, The Apprentice Lover, The Passages of H.M., and The Last Station – the latter was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer and translated into over thirty languages. He has written biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Jesus, and Gore Vidal. His nonfiction works include The Art of Teaching, Why Poetry Matters, Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America, and The Way of Jesus. His most recent book, Borges and Me: An Encounter, is a memoir that will be released in August of 2020. Among his many edited volumes are the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004), The Columbia History of American Poetry (1994), The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (1995), and The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1998). The recipient of honorary degrees from Lafayette College, the University of Scranton, and Sewanee: The University of the South, he has received various fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1993-1994) and, for his Frost biography, the Chicago Tribune-Heartland Award in 2000. He was the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford University, in 1993-1994 and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London in 2005-2006. His books have been translated in more than thirty languages, and he writes articles and reviews for many publications, including The Guardian and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He also contributes op-ed pieces to various websites, including CNN, Salon, and The Daily Beast. Parini adapted his Gore Vidal biography with director Michael Hoffman into a feature film, starring Kevin Spacey and Michael Stuhlbarg. Adaptations of Benjamin’s Crossing, The Damascus Road, and Borges and Me are currently underway. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-dana-gioia-pt-2 daily 0.75 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/3492e00c-b4eb-4374-a111-82402b2982f9/Hartford+2019+Three+Feathers+%232.jpg Interview with Dana Gioia Part 2 - Collage The Three Feathers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/932fbb78-1657-4f25-b71f-4110f8ec013b/Dana+Gioia+with+cat+Photo+copyright+%C2%A9+Star+Black.2015.jpg Interview with Dana Gioia Part 2 - Dana Gioia Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. His poetry collections include Interrogations at Noon, which won the 2001 American Book Award, and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016), which won the Poets’ Prize as the best book of the year. His four critical collections include Can Poetry Matter? (2002) and Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life (2021). Gioia served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009 and as California State Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2019. His other awards include the Laetare Medal, Presidential Civilian Medal, and the Aiken-Taylor Award in Modern Poetry. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California. Photo courtesy of Dana Gioia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/6c9542c0-75b6-4fa3-ac93-3afc80844317/Luis+Tapia+2019_El+Cantinero+Front+Hi-Res.jpg Interview with Dana Gioia Part 2 - Santo made by Luis Tapia Photo courtesy of Dana Gioia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/72df4c66-e23f-4ed8-bb56-83bcac203386/Haunted-+Ghost+Entrance-+1.jpg Interview with Dana Gioia Part 2 - Shot from the dance opera Haunted Photo courtesy of Dana Gioia https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-serena daily 0.75 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/7e0d4a1e-78eb-450c-b94a-0b3ce441dcaa/Headshot_bnw.jpg Interview with Serena Alagappan - Serena Alagappan Serena Alagappan received her A.B. in comparative literature and creative writing from Princeton University in 2020. She then studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she received an MSc in Social Anthropology and an MSt in World Literatures in English. She has edited poetry for the 30th annual Mays Anthology and the Oxford Review of Books. Her poems have appeared in The London Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, the Colorado Review, and elsewhere. A recipient of the 2022 New Poets Prize, her pamphlet ‘Sensitive to Temperature’ will be published by The Poetry Business under the Smith|Doorstop imprint next year. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-andreea-scridon daily 0.75 2022-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/e41599f4-dfd9-4aee-937a-c7fb899fef5d/311449220_1178350409702104_358654274295915212_n.jpg Interview with Andreea Scridon - Andreea Iulia Scridon Andreea Iulia Scridon is a Romanian-American poet. She is the author of A Romanian Poem (MadHat Press), Calendars (Broken Sleep Books), and Across The Nile-Green Sky (Greying Ghost Press). https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-jodie-hollander daily 0.75 2022-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/c6461b64-ffbe-47e0-a302-e8bd84596ac5/Jodie-Hollander-%C2%A9JOANNA+ELDREDGE+MORRISSEY_912.jpg Interview with Jodie Hollander - Jodie Hollander Jodie Hollander’s work has appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, PN Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, The New Criterion, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The Best Australian Poems of 2011, and The Best Australian Poems of 2015. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press & Oxford University Press. Her second collection, Nocturne, will be published with the Liverpool & Oxford University Press in the spring of 2023. She currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/review-arcadia-by-arch-hades daily 0.75 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/05ba6b9d-f914-4e09-8cc0-f5319f87c931/AH2022.jpeg Review: Arcadia by Arch Hades - Arch Hades Arch Hades is an artist and bestselling poet from London, who became the highest paid living poet in the world in 2021. She is the author of four volumes of poetry – ‘High Tide’ (2018), ‘Fool’s Gold’ (2020), ‘Paper Romance’ (2021), ‘Arcadia’ (2022) – known best for Romantic lyricism and for exploring poetry-of-philosophy in a traditional, rhyming style. In 2021, ‘Arcadia’ was illustrated and sold as a work of digital fine art at Christie’s New York, where it broke records and became the most expensive poem ever sold at $525,000. In May 2022 the ‘Arcadia’ digital film had its museum premiere at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence as part of the ‘Let’s Get Digital’ exhibition. Arch Hades often writes commentary for national newspapers on cultural discourse, performs poetry readings, and gives talks on philosophy at top universities. Photo courtesy of Arch Hades https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-nina-begus daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/e8bc3973-71fa-4b1a-8bd3-6f8558a6ef6f/nina+begus.JPG Interview with Nina Begus - Nina Begus Nina Beguš is a researcher at UC Berkeley and ToftH and the founder of InterpretAI. She consults for big tech and collaborates with writers and artists in technological exploration. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and is finishing a book on Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI. Photo courtesy of Deidre Locklear https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-anpotowin-jensen daily 0.75 2022-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/47f56cf9-4c76-4123-b6b3-856e94ee2acc/Screen+Shot+2022-12-01+at+7.57.46+AM.jpg Interview with Anpotowin Jensen - Anpotowin Jensen Anpotowin Jensen is from the Kiyuksa Tiospaye of the Oglala Lakota Oyate. She was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and graduated with a Master’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, where she was the first Native woman on Stanford’s Student Global Health Board. As a writer, author, and poet, she interweaves her experiences as an Oglala woman, engineer, and advocate for Indigenous solutions in global health & climate change in her creations. Some of her advocacy roles have included being an Environmental Health Specialist for the International Indian Treaty Council, a youth representative of the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council, and North American Focal Point of the UN Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. In these capacities, she has delivered testimony on the United Nations floor that led to formal policy recommendations on Indigenous languages & health from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to the World Health Organization (WHO). Her work has been featured in & by Forbes Magazine, the Native American 40 under 40 list, Scope, Grist, the UN Youth Envoy, the Oxford Climate Review, The Lancet, Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, the Journal of Climate Change and Health, and more. Today, Anpo is researching the impact of legacy gold mining and mercury on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the Black Hills. Her work will help shape climate change adaptation plans for her community and tribe. She loves to speak Lakota and dreams all the time every time of giving back to her People. Photo courtesy of Anpotowin Jensen https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-gili-yuval daily 0.75 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/f0f6f598-36b6-41cc-9dfa-4a6726ef0389/GiliB216001.jpg Interview with Gili - GILI YUVAL Gili Yuval is the co-founder of ‘I did my best’, a storytelling, creative strategy and content development platform that was born out of her dual lives in the corporate world and satirical poetry. After beginning her career as a culture and lifestyle journalist, Gili led the communications strategy for the Design Museum Holon and continued on to become the head of development and programming for the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel (BFAMI) network. In 2021, she published her first collection of short poems in Hebrew entitled “Now with Attachment,” which became a bestseller in Israel. She has also lectured about the future of work and read for Google, Check-Point and HP. Currently, she is in the process of translating and publishing her work for English-speaking audiences. Photo courtesy of Yoav Pichersky https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-jenna-lynch daily 0.75 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/2fc54689-ea47-46b7-a674-fd9019fdd236/a73ea6_d5d078c3b2cf403d84530ba590195dd9%7Emv2_d_6720_4480_s_4_2.jpeg Interview with Jenna Lynch - Jenna Lynch Born and raised in Westchester, NY, Jenna Lynch holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Maryland and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Oregon. She currently works as the Assistant Director of the Student Success Center at Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, and is pursuing a PhD in Literacy at St. John's University. Her first chapbook, The Mouth of Which You Are, from Finishing Line Press, was released November 2018. Her poems have appeared in Forklift Ohio, Construction Magazine, Sundog Lit, and elsewhere. Jenna has received fellowships and residencies from the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Astoria, Queens where she is working on her first full length poetry collection. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-tope-folarin daily 0.75 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/c91ec6c4-7ef6-4c3f-8b8a-c265806ea221/vv.jpg Interview with Tope Folarin - TopE FOlarin Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC. He serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. His reviews, essays and cultural criticism have been featured in The Atlantic, The Baffler, BBC, The Drift, High Country News, Lithub, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Vulture, The Washington Post and elsewhere. Tope serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater in Washington DC, the Vice President of the Board of the Pen/Faulkner Foundation, and as a member of the President’s Council of Pathfinder. He also serves as an advisor to Maps to the Next World, an initiative of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Endowment for the Arts and Poetry Magazine to chart new paths forward for the literary arts. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. His debut novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was published by Simon & Schuster. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-aija-mayrock daily 0.75 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/e1de0aa5-3959-41d1-b931-1546d062aca6/Bildschirmfoto+2023-08-10+um+17.25.08.jpeg Interview with Aija Mayrock - Aija Mayrock Aija Mayrock is an activist, performer, and bestselling author. After rising to fame with her international bestseller The Survival Guide to Bullying, she recently published her poetry book Dear Girl. She has performed at venues such as Madison Square Garden, SXSW and SXSW EDU, Girl Boss Rally, the United Nations General Assembly, Pop Sugar Playground, the Harvard Club, and Penn State University as well as partnered with nationally recognized names and brands including Alessia Cara and Saks Fifth Avenue. Currently, she’s pursuing her MBA at Columbia Business School. Photo courtesy of Aija Mayrock https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-keith-holyoak daily 0.75 2023-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/1222b439-14c7-4a3b-853a-dee4cbd1402b/images.jpg Interview with Keith Holyoak - Keith holyoak Keith Holyoak, poet, translator of classical Chinese poetry, and cognitive scientist, was raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada. He received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. A professor of Psychology, first at the University of Michigan and since 1986 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Holyoak has published over 150 papers and books. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Society. Holyoak writes formal poetry, using meter and rhyme. His poems have been published in numerous literary magazines in the US, England and Canada, including The London Magazine, Envoi, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine, Poem, The Lyric, Red Rock Review, Edge City Review, Bellowing Ark and The Eclectic Muse. In addition to Yeats, Frost, and the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, Holyoak has been influenced by the classical Chinese poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu (aka Li Po and Tu Fu), whose poems he has translated and published in magazines in the US, England and New Zealand. Holyoak is a member of PoetsWest. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-anjan-chatterjee daily 0.75 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/14629bc2-f92c-4022-93b2-d2c6ad49b7e7/AC_.jpg Interview with Anjan Chatterjee - Anjan Chatterjee, MD, FAAN Anjan Chatterjee is Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He received his BA in Philosophy from Haverford College, MD from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his neurology residency at the University of Chicago. The past Chair of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Chatterjee’s research addresses neuroaesthetics, spatial cognition, language, and neuroethics. He wrote The Aesthetic Brain: How we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art and co-edited Brain, Beauty, and Art: Bringing Neuroaesthetics in Focus as well as Neuroethics in Practice: Mind, Medicine, and Society, and The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience: Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. His editorial services have included: American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience, Behavioural Neurology, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Creativity Research Journal, Empirical Studies of the Arts, European Neurology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Journal of NeuroPhilosophy, European Neurology, Neuropsychology, and The Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. He received the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology and the Rudolph Arnheim Prize for contributions to Psychology and the Arts from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Chatterjee is a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society, the past President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society. He serves on the board of The Global Wellness Institute and has served on the boards of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Haverford College, the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, and the Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Photo courtesy of Dr. Anjan Chatterjee https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-christopher-bailey daily 0.75 2023-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/468296dd-4875-42a3-a300-621a83e5ba9c/image0.jpeg Interview with Christopher Bailey - Christopher Bailey Christopher Bailey is the Arts and Health Lead at the World Health Organization and a co-founder of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab. The lab focuses on the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts by building up a global network of research centers to look at effective practice as well as the foundational science of why the arts may benefit physical, mental and social wellbeing. The emphasis of the program is supporting underserved communities around the world. Through its Healing Arts activities, the program also engages with the global media to promote pro-health messaging and build solidarity on health issues through all media. Educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities as well as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, after a career as a professional actor and playwright, Bailey joined the Rockefeller Foundation as their Research Manager, and from there was recruited to WHO where he lead the Health Informatics work and later their on-line communications team before starting the Arts and Health program. As an ambassador for the field, Bailey has also performed original pieces such as Stage 4: Cancer and the Imagination, and The Vanishing Point: A journey into Blindness and Perception, in venues around the world, from the Hamwe Festival in Rwanda, to the Wellcome Collection in London, to the World Bank in DC, as well as Lincoln Center in NY, the LA Opera, LACMA, and Warner Bros Studios in LA, and the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Budapest Opera and the Kennedy Center among many others. The basic message of his work is to amplify the WHO definition of health which states that health is not merely the absence of disease and infirmity, but the attainment of the highest level of physical, mental and social wellbeing. The arts have uniquely evolved to do just that. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-deborah-davidson daily 0.75 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/9760e5a9-aaef-4778-b1b8-1e7a3da6929b/165.jpg Interview with Deborah Davidson - Deborah Davidson Deborah Davidson is an artist, curator, and educator. She is founder and director of Catalyst Conversations, devoted to the dialogue between art and science. She is part of the core faculty in the MFA program at Lesley University, maintains a studio practice and directs the Suffolk University Gallery. She was the featured artist in Agni 61, the BU literary magazine. Davidson is also featured on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast Creative Minds Outloud. Catalyst Conversations events have explored topics at the forefront of science and art-making today such as theoretical mathematics, watershed conservation, public art, STEAM education, neuroscience, and more. These events are a unique opportunity for participants of all ages and educational backgrounds to access new knowledge. Ideas are not only presented to the public, they are held open for extended conversation allowing a unique entry to intellectual inquiry https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-whitney-hanson daily 0.75 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/4965012b-6afa-4711-b367-1949621f392a/Headshot_WhitneyHanson.jpg Interview with Whitney Hanson - Whitney Hanson Whitney Hanson is the author of Home, Harmony, and Climate. Through Whitney’s vulnerability and authenticity, she has connected with thousands of readers and adamantly believes that poetry is not a dead language; rather it is the key to unlocking true vulnerability which leads to deeper connection with one another. Whitney grew up in rural Montana and recently graduated from university in South Carolina. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/review-21c-human daily 0.75 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/05ba6b9d-f914-4e09-8cc0-f5319f87c931/AH2022.jpeg Review: 21C Human - Arch Hades Arch Hades is an artist and bestselling poet from London, who became the highest paid living poet in the world in 2021. She is the author of five volumes of poetry – ‘High Tide’ (2018), ‘Fool’s Gold’ (2020), ‘Paper Romance’ (2021), ‘Arcadia’ (2022), and ‘21C Human’ (2023) – known best for Romantic lyricism and for exploring poetry-of-philosophy in a traditional, rhyming style. In 2021, ‘Arcadia’ was illustrated and sold as a work of digital fine art at Christie’s New York, where it broke records and became the most expensive poem ever sold at $525,000. In May 2022 the ‘Arcadia’ digital film had its museum premiere at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence as part of the ‘Let’s Get Digital’ exhibition. Arch Hades often writes commentary for national newspapers on cultural discourse, performs poetry readings, and gives talks on philosophy at top universities. Photo courtesy of Arch Hades https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-michal-janicki daily 0.75 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/001dff80-188c-4992-a124-0921bbdfd0be/mjanicki_portrait.jpg Interview with Michal Janicki - Michal janicki Michal Janicki is a Polish-born designer, film maker, programmer and educator. He is a communication designer at IDEO, specializing in digital and cross-disciplinary expression. Previously he taught advanced digital media design at The University of Illinois at Chicago and motion design at Columbia College. He is a company member at Trap Door Theatre brining avant-garde European works to life. His experimental film work has been shown at The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, Chicago Reeling LGBTQ+ International Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival among others. Michal’s design work has been shown at the Chicago Design Museum, and has won awards from Communication Arts magazine. He feels his greatest achievements has been teaching and seeing his students utilize coding as a means of self expression. He holds a B.A. in graphic design from University of Illinois at Chicago, and gets some of his best ideas traveling the globe with his husband Matthew. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-la-johnson daily 0.75 2024-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/7e70cc53-e5a4-4338-833e-454458dd9bbb/LAJ-headshot.jpg Interview with L.A. Johnson - L.A. Johnson L. A. Johnson is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2017). She holds a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow. The winner of the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the 2021 Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize, and the 2021 Gregory Djanikian Scholarship by Adroit Journal, her poems appear in The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Find more about her at http://www.la-johnson.com. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-amanda-shea daily 0.75 2024-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/32091877-5bc7-49b1-b69a-061a44a0bd12/Untitled+%282%29.jpg Interview with Amanda Shea - Amanda shea Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, publicist, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and resistance. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Globe, TEDX, TEDXRoxbury, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, GBH, and much more. Shea will be releasing her first book, “Pieces of Shea” in the Spring of 2024. Amanda's work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma utilizing art as the tool. https://www.napkinpoetryreview.org/interview-with-january-gill-oneil daily 0.75 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5edb5b36548343170e29b11a/06e7aa21-01c3-4d55-bb8e-ac175ea8aa13/Screenshot+2024-07-05+at+2.59.57+PM.jpeg Interview with January Gill O'Neil - January Gill O’Neil January Gill O'Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra magazine, among others. Her poem, “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial,” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, O'Neil was the 2019-2020 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She currently serves as the 2022-2024 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). O'Neil earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from New York University. She lives in Beverly, MA.