Interview by Beth McDermott I’ve been lucky enough to know Virginia Bell as a writer and editor since my first summer working for RHINO Poetry in 2015 in what is now called the Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellowship. Having listened to Virginia discuss poems with care and intellectual curiosity, it wasn’t a surprise to| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
I grew up reading William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, who filled their places with wild characters and events. It made me want to create a place and fill it with wild characters and events, too. I spent a lot of time in northern Michigan as a kid camping, fly-fishing, hiking, hunting. There is a mythic quality there I didn’t feel in the suburbs of my youth – or Detroit where I went to college or Chicago where I went to grad school. The real poetry was always in the north woods. It...| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
By Lorraine Boissoneault The first few months of 2025 have felt interminable, new horrors turning monotonous because they come at such a breakneck pace. It’s hard, some days, to see the U.S. as anything other than its worst actors, who arrest people off the street and break up families and threaten peaceful protestors. Then I| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
by Nicole Cooley Brad Richard and I both grew up in New Orleans, attending the same arts high school: The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (where Brad later taught). Now, we have known each other for more than 40 years. As a teenager, I knew Brad’s poems before ever meeting him–having read them in| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
by Jael Montellano Picture the 2011 film Melancholia’s opening; the slow-motion fall of the black horse, the suspended moths in midair, the electricity worming from Dunst’s fingertips as Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde score murmurs. This is my experience of reading Alina Stefanescu’s newest poetry collection, My Heresies, in this transformative period of time. Read under| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
By Kyle Givens Sometimes a book finds its way to you when you weren’t looking. My grandmother passed away six weeks before Also Here arrived on my doorstep. I didn’t intend to read straight through without stopping, but once I started whatever else I had to do felt less urgent. I knew Brooke first as […] The post Pour Yourself Into the Gap: An Interview With Brooke Randel first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
by Jael Montellano There is an exercise I practice with my therapist. I’m certain there is a name for it, but to command ownership of our own experiences, we largely work without labels, so I call it ‘Take a place.’ She asks me to imagine a place in which I feel safe; the purpose of […] The post How Books Steer a Life: An Interview With Donna Seaman first appeared on Hypertext Magazine.| Hypertext Magazine
By William Lychack My friendship with Miles Harvey goes back 35 years, back to our MFA days at the University of Michigan. Hardly a week goes by when we’re not on the phone or writing emails or even visiting in real life to go bowling, and I shudder to think where my life would be| Hypertext Magazine - Publishing fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, & interv...
