Sam Zimmerman

Well. Just saying.

I'm trying to get back into reading after being forced to read so many books I didn't enjoy and many books a week throughout undergrad and grad school. Being stuck in this weird anti-literary funk is so weird.

No heat for over a week. Maintenance is working on it, but my fridge stopped working. I lost all of my food on there today and now have water leaking into my light fixture in the bathroom. Beyond angry.

Happy Holidays to me, I guess.

“The body is a toolset for action and insight”: An Interview With Sarah Sarai Imagine Jane Eyre as a prose poem. While there’s enough struggle, cruelty, and nobility therein, I don’t see it as other than a novel.

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“The poems themselves might be the glitter”: An Interview With Bonnie Jill Emanuel When I was young, my family would take yearly trips to Brooklyn, where my father was raised and spent many years of his life before he decided to take on upstate New York. On these trips, my siblin…

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“We, too, will be quaint figures of the past”: An Interview with Lauren Hilger I can only speak to my embodied lived experience. And I’m perhaps revealing my own identity through my allusions.

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“I have a love-hate relationship with self-help books”: An Interview with Lisa Mottolo They’re kind of corny and can get away with being poorly written, as long as they are conveying valuable information. They’re the opposite of poetry. Poetry must be well-written and can get away wi…

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“This will be my last public statement for a very long time”: An Interview with Adam Tavel Like many, I went in search of fellowship but merely found another cloying marketplace.

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“No, thank you. I’ll take the witch any day”: An Interview with Caroline Hagood I think most women with a complex inner life will at some point be labeled difficult.

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“The ‘I’ in my poems changes from poem to poem”: An Interview with Cynthia Atkins People can wrongly presume in a poem, as opposed to fiction, that the speaker is always the up close and personal I. And of course, there’s you, in the second person, and that one might be the rawe…

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“What is poetry without its readers?”: An Interview with Elizabeth M. Castillo One of the biggest problems in literature these days is that the vast majority of people find poetry inaccessible.

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“I try to not fall into nostalgia unnecessarily”: An Interview with Robert Krut When you ask if I am someone “who likes to play with the metaphysical ghosts that words have to offer,” I nod my head, then tilt it a bit to rearrange the concept slightly—I think I am someone who …

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“Everyone comes to erasure for different reasons”: An Interview with Isobel O’Hare A border wall is a method of keeping people away, of denying them a voice, of literal erasure from American life.

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“our pain doesn’t need to be lonely”: An Interview with Joanna C. Valente our pain doesn’t need to be lonely

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“Sally = mastodons, we’ve forgotten them both!”: An Interview with Christina Olson I started as poet, then I started working in CNF, and now I’m hanging out in their in-between space. It’s a good place to spend time, I think.

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“The grotesque is what repulses and attracts you at once”: An Interview with Dylan Krieger The grotesque is what repulses and attracts you at once. I can only hope my work participates in that.

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I am looking forward to hopefully connecting with some other writers and like-minded people on here!