Poet Hoa Nguyen and editorial assistant Conrad Schaefer discuss Nguyen’s poems featured in the Summer 2025 issue of Colorado Review. Their conversation covered poetic process, emplacement, as well as Nguyen’s divinatory/visionary poetics. They also discussed Nguyen’s archival research; the pairing of lineage and diasporic experience in her lyric poetry. Born in the lower Mekong Delta and raised […]
Mary Grimm is the author of two books, Left to Themselves (novel) and Stealing Time (story collection), both by Random House; her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Antioch Review, Mississippi Review, and Bellingham Review. Currently, she is working on a novel set in 1930s Cleveland. She teaches fiction writing at Case Western […]
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