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A Review of Leigh Lucas’s Splashed Things

The therapeutic creative practices of the bereaved are often—and rightly—more about expressing the knottiness of emotion surrounding individual loss than about the results of the artistic process being assessed publicly. This said,…

A Conversation with Michelle Quay

Michelle Quay is a scholar and translator of Persian literature and was the inaugural winner of the Mo Habib Translation Prize for Persian Literature in 2023. She teaches Persian Language and Literature,…

A Conversation with Ryan Teitman

Ryan Teitman is the author of the poetry collections Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012) and Paperweight (University of Akron Press, 2026), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize. His poems have…