Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Millian Pham Lien Giang: I’ve been working with a long vertical format in my studio for the last year. It mainly came from my current research on Vietnamese mother-of-pearl inlay lacquer, and I wanted to work on some of the same challenges of this aesthetic and format for this collaboration. Poet William Fargason: The mode of the poem is a “When ___ Says/Does ____ to Me” form that I came up with. I have other poems in this mode… Often, I can’t think of a good response in the moment, so the response percolates for days/weeks until it comes out in the form of a poem.
William Fargason is the author of Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara, winner of the 2019 Iowa Poetry Prize. He lives with himself in Towson, Maryland. Millian Pham Lien Giang is a visual artist and educator who focuses on many modes of visual art perception in her practice. Overlapping themes of gender, class, and culture are captured through images, objects, and events in her work.
Artists, writers, designers: let’s make broadsides together. Three workshops will run concurrently (and do a LOT of cross-pollination) during the week of July 30 – August 5 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (FAWC). We will play, explore…
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy Wesleyan University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780819577191 $13.90, purchase at bookshop.org Review by Jennifer Martelli In her poem, “Mother daughter hour,” Camille T. Dungy writes: +++++Callie is reading the book about language, and I am…
Friends, At the start of the new year, we like to take a moment and look back on the work we’ve published. This new year’s special draws from that process and from another print tradition. In the 19th century, it…
