Maia Elsner

Maia Elsner was born in London to Mexican and Polish Jewish parents. Her debut collection, overrun by wild boars, explores the dislocation of lives, histories, and objects, through migration and the legacies of colonisation. Recently she has been involved in a film collaboration with Latin American artists across the diaspora, and in a poetry-postcard project exploring the gaps of memory through troubling the line between verbal and visual arts. Her work has been published in British, American, Canadian and Irish journals, and has been widely anthologised. Currently, she is doing an MFA at the University of Michigan.

A Review of Arji Manuelpillai’s Improvised Explosive Device

Maia Elsner

Arji Manuelpillai’s debut collection, Improvised Explosive Device (out now with Penned in the Margins) explores the precarity of human existence in a world where violence suffuses every interaction. This book peels back the skin of a society “gasping / like blood bags” to reveal a terrible, raw hunger underneath. Even the landscape is like a […]

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What is Enough for a Poem? An Interview with Ada Limón

Ada Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, Bright Dead Things, was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics

Maia Elsner

A Review of Arji Manuelpillai’s Improvised Explosive Device

What is Enough for a Poem? An Interview with Ada Limón￼

What is Enough for a Poem? An Interview with Ada Limón