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Spring Reading with the Mass Review
- By Staff
ON APRIL 6, 2023, AT 6:00, in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Old Chapel, the...
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10 Questions for Dan Beachy-Quick
- By Edward Clifford
eternity is
different than an
hour I you
know this too the
sun-bright teeth the
mouth's inherent
night what is
ours—
—from "Everydayness," Volume 64, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
The first poem I remember writing and thinking perhaps it was a poem, or doing a poem-like thing, was back in high school, my junior year, and much due to that rare teacher who can actually teach poetry, Becky Porter of Alameda High. We had read John Keats’s poem “On First Reading Chapman’s Homer,” and...
Interviews
10 Questions for Stevie Edwards
- By Edward Clifford
Three days into stripping
the third layer of painted wallpaper
in a poorly ventilated powder room
and I am a sorrow river. My husband
sticks his head in to ask why
—from "On Crying While Stripping Wallpaper," Volume 64, Issue 1 (Spring 2023)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
The first poem I had published in a literary magazine for adults (I had poems published in Teen Ink at some point, but I can’t remember anything about them) was called “C-a-n-c-e-r,” which was published in The Cartier Street Review in 2009, under the name Stephanie Edwards. I wrote it about a time...
Interviews
10 Questions for Vivian Li
- By Edward Clifford
紫薯, a mother’s boiling incense, herbal ginger tea
山峰, summit of skies, an unwrapped shin almost fire-scalded red
tobacco, whistling grey pipe of meshed 廣州 air and 1970s pollution
my father dodging into villages with naked children,
small mounds of dirt baked with stolen potatoes,
...
Interviews
10 Questions for Claude Olson
- By Edward Clifford
I am often mistaken for a tiny biting inset. No one cares to know my taxonomic name. The term "midge" will suffice. Any little two-winged fly can be a midge. There are highland midges and phantom midges, midges with affectionate nicknames like "punkies" and "no-see-ums."
—from "13 Considerations of the Holy Bug," Volume 63, Issue 4 (Winter 2022)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
As a kid with a big imagination and a very short attention span, I would think up stories all the time but rarely write them down. So my earliest memory of a story I could commit to paper was an elaborate spin on an assignment for my 10th grade English class. Every time we were given a new list of vocabulary...
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