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Safe House by Kim Rosen

Reading to fund girls’ education

February 9, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

In 2006, Kim Rosen arrived at the Tasaru Safe House in Narok, Kenya, and stood before a group of Maasai girls who had run away…

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Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

Madison Davis on her debut book, Disasters

January 26, 2017
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Disaster has long been an obsession for Oakland poet Madison Davis, whose debut book of that name is out this week from Bay Area press…

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jennifer-s-cheng-by-gary-tsang

With poetry, child of immigrants ponders idea of home

October 20, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud, Upcoming Events

In the beginning of her first book, House A (Omnidawn), Jennifer S. Cheng writes: “It is important to note that before language, children experience memories…

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Mary Szybist Joni Kabana

Mary Szybist’s poems like religion for nonbelievers

September 22, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, I WOULD SAY, Interview, NEWS, Out Loud

Shortly after winning the 2013 National Book Award for her second collection of poems, Incarnadine, Portland’s Mary Szybist told the Paris Review that she started…

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Jesús Castillo brings long-form poetry to McSweeney’s

Jesús Castillo brings long-form poetry to McSweeney’s

June 16, 2016
Evan Karp
Columns, Interview, Out Loud

On a whim, at age 23, Jesús Castillo bought a pack of index cards, and for the next two years carried a small stack of…

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Laura Walker by Mark Lemkin

Laura Walker on Poetry that Rewards Peripheral Vision

May 12, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, The Write Stuff

An interview with Laura Walker, from The Write Stuff series: Laura Walker is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Follow-Haswed (Apogee Press, 2012). A fifth book,…

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Trisha Low on Being Okay with Being Okay and Making Pure Gestures of Refusal

Trisha Low on Being Okay with Being Okay and Making Pure Gestures of Refusal

January 31, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Columns, Interview, The Write Stuff

An interview with Trisha Low, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Trisha Low is a poet and performer. She is the author of The Compleat…

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Joshua Clover on Wearing Intense Knowledge Lightly and Changing Quickly

Joshua Clover on Wearing Intense Knowledge Lightly and Changing Quickly

January 31, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Columns, Interview, The Write Stuff

An interview with Joshua Clover, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Joshua Clover is a communist, though various communists don’t think so. He is also…

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Jacob Minasian on Something as Simple as a Magazine Cover

Jacob Minasian on Something as Simple as a Magazine Cover

January 31, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Columns, Interview, The Write Stuff

An interview with Jacob Minasian, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Jacob Minasian received his B.A. in English: Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of…

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Jayinee Basu: on Trying to Apply Makeup While Drunk on Cheap Champagne

Jayinee Basu: on Trying to Apply Makeup While Drunk on Cheap Champagne

January 31, 2016
Evan Karp
C4 YOURSELF, Columns, The Write Stuff

An interview with Jayinee Basu, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly: Jayinee Basu is a writer based in San Francisco. She is the author of…

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