Archives about Jada Pierce
“We make our own families.” A conversation with Bradford Tice
I have loved you all this time, and my heart has gone off like a gun into the ground, wrapped in the arms of the sinking masses. This is what it comes to–a gouged trench into which everything is dropped. You call it death. I call it desire. By the way, I made it with
“I wanted a bigger I.” In conversation with Sara Quinn Rivara
I encountered Sara Quinn Rivara’s chapbook, Lake Effect (Aldrich Press) while reading books for the LNL Debut-litzer, and I was anxious for a conversation with the poet herself. I was most captivated by Sara’s language, the way she writes about personal subjects without sounding confessional. The Midwest landscapes in her poems were at once familiar
“This wondrous little engine”: A conversation with Edison Jennings
I came across Edison’s chapbook, Reckoning (Jacar Press), while reading for the LNL Debutlitzer Prize this past Spring, and I felt the poems were deserving of a conversation. The thing that struck me most about Edison’s work was the way he brings to life some memory of a specific time, place, or person in a