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(Not Quite) 10 Questions for Anne Milano Appel

August 17, 2018 - By Sarah Lofstrom

It’s almost four o’clock and the hour hand quivers.

They told Mr. Ignazio Coppola to sit here and be a good boy now, and wait. And Mr. Ignazio sits waiting sedately as he was told to, his back straight and his hands spread on his knees. Every now and then he looks at the wall clock: it’s almost four o’clock, Arturo and little Camilla will be there at any moment. 
—From"  If I Don't Come Back, Don't Go Looking For Me ," Summer 2018, (Volume 59, Issue 2)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.
While not the first, one of the earliest projects I remember was a book by Enzo Fontana called Tra la perduta gente (Mondadori, 1996). I was attracted to the book...

10 Questions for Mirfet Piccolo

August 13, 2018 - By Sarah Lofstrom

 It’s almost four o’clock and the hour hand quivers.

They told Mr. Ignazio Coppola to sit here and be a good boy now, and wait. And Mr. Ignazio sits waiting sedately as he was told to, his back straight and his hands spread on his knees. Every now and then he looks at the wall clock: it’s almost four o’clock, Arturo and little Camilla will be there at any moment. 

-From “If I Don’t Come Back, Don’t Come Looking For Me,” Summer 2018 (Vol. 59, Issue 2)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
One of the first pieces I wrote was a small collection of short stories for kids that I wrote for my nephew. It was in 1996. I thought it would have been fun to play with him by reading...

10 Questions for Elizabeth Knapp

August 9, 2018 - By Edward Clifford

"After a heated debate about the nature
of inspiration (poetry versus prose),
with you arguing that idea begets word,
and not vice versa, as I believe is the case

with verse (always the music first),
which was prompted by a discussion
of Dickinson's envelope poems,
and whether she wrote the poem"
—from “Sixth Year: Iron,” Summer 2018 (Vol. 59, Issu2)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
In the summer between ninth and tenth grade, I read Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, which prompted me to read more about the history of South Africa. At some point later that year, I read a biography of Stephen Biko and wrote an elegy for him in my creative writing...

10 Questions for Clayton Adam Clark

August 7, 2018 - By Sarah Lofstrom

"Trees on the bluff, its layered limestone

               and the plants grown into rockface,

                             down to the river road and in

across two pontoons and the water

              you stand in. Try to make the image

                            wash you out. You take on the sun's halo,"

—from “Self-portrait with Asian...

10 Questions for Sarah Rose Cadorette

August 2, 2018 - By Edward Clifford

"We came to help reforest the land, but as we walk through the bukhara, the local name for our patch of wasteland, we pack rocks into the parched soil with each step. Even the cactuses growing here are a miracle. When we come across a scorched circle of ash, I am alarmed, but not surprised; one of the reasons Haiti is so severely deforested, so disparate in its environment and economy from the Dominican Republic just next door, is that one of the only opportunites for people to make money is by burning timber down into charcoal to sell."
—from “Seedlings in the Bukhara,” Summer 2018 (Vol. 59, Issue 2)

Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
I was very fortunate to attend a well-funded...