A Creature of the Senses: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky
Poems contain information, but they’re not about information. A poem is not about an event; it is an event.
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Worldplay: Gennady Aygi’s Love Letter to the Russian Avant-Garde
Futurists like Mayakovsky were never merely utopian or fanciful in their views. Instead, they believed in the power of art to revolutionize everyday life by transforming people’s perception of, and engagement with, the spaces and objects around them. Their world-making was playful, but it was far from just a game.
NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified): A Review and an Interview with Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman
We name our children before we know them, and our names express our hopes for them. In doing so, we are not unlike flight attendants welcoming the child to a place we haven’t yet arrived in. But what happens when one’s child is—as Winston Churchill