May/Summer 2016 
An Interview with the Founders of CantoMundo
Millicent Borges Accardi
Founded in 2009... CantoMundo provides a space where Latina/o poets can "nurture and enhance their poetics" and "network with peer poets to enrich and further disseminate Latina/o poetry."
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Jump Already
Debra Spark
I had the hope by writing this essay that I would somehow be able to get myself from this, my feeling of stuckness, to that, a magical ability to move past my current limitations.
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An Interview with Seymour Krim
Nancy Bunge
One of the plus things about a workshop is that everyone chimes in. I learn things; each new piece offers a new set of possibilities for reacting to. I never make flat, on high—I hope I don't—judgments...
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Fidelity and Freedom, or the Ludic Stubbornness of the Translator
Nicholas Benson
But, one may ask, if literary translation is so valuable, why does our culture hold it in such little regard?
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An Appreciation of Tobias Wolff: Throwing Long Shadows
Beth Ann Fennelly
Wolff establishes history by weaving a casual detail from the past into the present exposition early on, so nimbly the narrative isn't paused.
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Double Vision: The Clarity of Narrative Distortion
Scott Nadelson
Friedlander’s images evoke in me the kind of response I want most from art and literature.... I find his photographs at once funny and unsettling, beautiful and repulsive, crystal-clear and mystifying.
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Magic and the Intellect: Four Writers Consider the Stakes of Magic in Literature Today
Lucy Corin
One thread that emerged was concern about the popularity of magical writing that seemed depoliticized; disengaged with history and the history of magic itself.
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