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Supplementary materials for teaching Issue 09 are listed below.
Interviews
Listen to Editor in Chief Jennifer Acker discuss The Common, the role of place in literature, and the editorial process.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Marni Berger discuss the stenography of poetry and the “beautiful challenge” of geography as “fate.” Phillips’s poem “The First Last Light in the Sky” appears in Issue 09.
Jacqueline Pope and Marni Berger discuss the culture of language, humanity’s relationship to nature, and what it means to view the world from “up high.” Pope’s poems “Bone Almanac” and “Some Proof of Love” appear in Issue 09.
Richard Michelson and Marni Berger discuss how Quebec City’s “Ice Hotel” inspired a poem—and how a childhood in East New York, Brooklyn, inspired a lifetime of work in multiple genres and disciplines. Michelson’s poem “The Ice Hotel” appears in Issue 09.
Recordings
- Gary Metras reads “Hellgrammite Cloud.”
- Sandeep Parmar reads “From Eidolon.”
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads “The First Last Light in the Sky.”
- Richard Michelson reads “The Ice Hotel.”
- Jacquelyn Pope reads “Bone Almanac.”
- Peter Jay Shippy reads “The Post-Graduates.”
- Sara London reads “Basta.”
- Rae Paris reads “On Being a Vine.”
- Robin Chapman reads “Midnight and the People I Love are Dying.”
Contributors in Conversation
- Masha Hamilton and Lori Ostlund discuss their stories “God’s Fingernail” and “Leaving Walter.”
Literary Translation
Explore these collected resources on literary translation.
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