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Book: Subtexts
Publisher: Publishing Genius
"Erasing my own work freed me from those considerations. But it also challenged me to explore what lay within my own thoughts."
SN on WIRB
Book: Ashes to Justice
Publisher: Day Eight Books
"Poetry gave me a way out of a world that I felt trapped in: my mind. I think that giving that same outlet back to the youth is a powerful thing, showing them that they have a voice, a reason and a purpose."
AB on WIRB
Book: One Person Away from You
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
"Writing is a return home for me, all the distractions of life suddenly laser-focused on the problem of story."
EDML on WIRB
Book: Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf
Publisher: Mason Jar Press
"The Wolf is trying everything he can to not be violent. So his form is incredibly structured. Because it’s a constraint - he’s putting a constraint on himself to try to not fall apart."
MA on WIRB
Book: The Animal at Your Side
Publisher: Airlie Press
"This is a book of fairytales. They’re ways of explaining things that I have not been ready to explain in a plain, direct way."
ZS on WIRB
Book: Let's Get Back to the Party
Publisher: Algonquin Books
"For me, the beating heart of this novel, as unapologetically gay as it is, is about how people cope and fail to cope with the passing of time."
CL on WIRB
Book: Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart
Publisher: Riot in Your Throat
"Don’t always assume a poem is 100% true. For me, almost every poem has some kernel of truth -- but you take that kernel and blow it up, and what comes of it is some version of the truth, but maybe not the whole truth."
Book: River Weather
Publisher: Alternating Current Press
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Book: Like We Still Speak
"I had an idea for this book as being a gallery of voices; of my friends, my family, but also poets and artists I admired."
Book: So Much of Everything
"I feel like poets work well with constraints. Folks who are drawn to found poetry are gluttons for punishment."
JK on WIRB
ME on WIRB
Book: Drowning in the Floating World
Publisher: Press 53
"Haunting is something that happens to all writers— we write, in part, because we’re haunted."
SF on WIRB
Book: Did You Even Know I Was Here?
Publisher: Self-published
"The idea of traveling to Paris is special because it's a place where my literary idol, James Baldwin, went when this country was too much."
LR on WIRB
Book: Spring: A Novel
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
"The path to publication is much longer and more complicated than you would expect. I thought that writing was the hard part..."
AS on WIRB
Book: The Rest of the World
Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House
"What I’ve seen over the years is that people in struggling communities hang together and support one another in ways the local news never gives them credit for."
