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In-N-Out for Iftar

By Tamer Mostafa

From Here

By Edil Hassan

Ism

By Sarah Ghazal Ali
Illustration of a man with an enlarged ear, attempting to hear the people around him.

Sound Shadow

By John Cotter

Erica Wright

Erica Wright is the author of the poetry collections All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned and Instructions for Killing the Jackal. She is the poetry editor at Guernica magazine as well as an editorial board member of Alice James Books. Her latest novel is The Granite Moth: A Novel.
http://www.ericawright.org
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Interview Arts & Culture

When Ann Patchett Is Emperor

By Erica Wright November 3, 2016

The writer on America’s fear culture, bookstores as community builders, and why writers should care about their character more than their characters.

Interview Arts & CultureLit WorldMENA

André Naffis-Sahely: Sublimated Rebellion

By Erica Wright July 22, 2016

Erica Wright talks to translator André Naffis-Sahely about translating one of Morocco's greatest living poets and the 'commodity' of despair.

Interview Arts & CultureLit World

Gregory Pardlo: The Poem as Pursuit

By Erica Wright March 10, 2015

“I wanted history I could touch like a flank of a beast.”

Interview Arts & CultureConflict

Shelly Taylor: Shattered Language

By Erica Wright July 15, 2014

Erica Wright talks with a poet who didn’t set out to write about war.

Interview Lit World

Barbara Hamby: A Muscle of Belief

By Erica Wright April 15, 2014

The Guggenheim fellow on returning to free verse in her latest collection, the difficulty of being joyful, and why poetry has taken the place of religion in her life.

Interview Lit World

Alex Lemon: Ferocious Kind of Music

By Erica Wright April 11, 2014

Why poetry needs more grit.

Interview Lit World

Idra Novey and Andrew Zawacki: Courting Influxes

By Erica Wright July 9, 2013

A conversation between poets about writing place, time, technology, and transformation.

Interview Arts & CultureRace

Jaswinder Bolina: Avoiding the Obvious

By Erica Wright June 20, 2013

Poet Jaswinder Bolina discusses writing about race, the process of being translated, and more.

Interview Lit World

Beth Harrison: Preparing for Poem in Your Pocket Day

By Erica Wright April 17, 2012

Beth Harrison, interim director of the Academy of American Poets, talks about the value of a national poetry month, the well-versed movie, and Poem in Your Pocket Day.

Interview Arts & CultureHistory

Emily Fragos: You Know Nothing of This Freedom

By Erica Wright December 16, 2011
The lyric poet on editing Dickinson's letters, and the feral.
Commentary Lit World

Best YA Trend of 2011

By Erica Wright December 1, 2011
Hint: It has nothing to do with vampires.
Commentary Arts & CultureGender

Sex, Lies, and Iambic Pentameter

By Erica Wright July 11, 2011
The events in Measure for Measure prove we have not come far enough when a man’s word still counts for more than a woman’s and when an elected official can play by a different set of rules than the rest of us.
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