Interviews
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Poetic Inquiry: poetry editor Richard Berwind interviews poetry co-editor Rebecca Endres /// Rebecca Endres interviews poetry co-editor Richard Berwind
Richard Berwind and Rebecca Endres are the current Poetry Editors at LIT and both graduated from The New School’s Creative Writing Masters Program in Poetry at different times in the program’s life: Richard in ’22, and Rebecca in ’18. To celebrate National Poetry Month, both sent questions to each other to discuss their time working at LIT, their inspirations for the poetic genre, as well as other fun yet funky questions about their special interests in writing. The interview goes as follows:
Richard Berwind: Poetry is one of our most ancient mediums of storytelling.
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An interview with Robert Polito and an excerpt from “After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace”
by Charlotte Slivka
Robert Polito’s After the Flood: inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace is encyclopedic in scope with a poet’s narration. It breaks down Bob Dylan’s career during the years 1991 – 2024 and conjures the shape of his resurgence from the underworld after receiving the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award; an award intended to honor him and bury him under a monument to his past simultaneously. What should have happened next in the wake of acceptance was the convenient hush of a great musician who had had a good run, then relegated to the pasture of cultural history,
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Dialogue Between Authors and Translators: an interview with Peruvian poet Roxana Crisólogo and translator Kim Jensen
by LIT Translation Editor John P. Apruzzese
Noise, in poetry, is rarely only noise. It is the residue of migration, the pressure of history, the friction between languages that refuse to settle into a single meaning. In this LIT Global Voices conversation, Peruvian–Finnish poet Roxana Crisólogo and United States poet and translator Kim Jensen meet in that charged space where poetry, politics, and translation converge, not as separate practices, but as forms of attention. We were honored to publish Jensen’s translations of Crisólogo’s poems from her collection Kauneus (Beauty) in LIT 41 (Fall 2025).
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An interview with Alexa Yasemin Brahme (MFA ’22) on her debut novel “Good News”
by LIT Interviews and Books Editor Jonathan Kesh
Good News, the debut novel by Alexa Yasemin Brahme, weaves a web of many different topics from art to immigrant families to dissections of womanhood, but the title reflects the central focus of a young artist waiting for things to get better.
The novel follows a struggling painter named Maggie — although her family and a certain ex-boyfriend know her by her Turkish name, Müjde — as several points of stress in her life converge at once. Her studio art MFA is reaching its end,
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The Squimbop Condition: An Interview with David Leo Rice on his Latest Novel
by Isabel Piazza Risi
In The Squimbop Condition, the newest novel from David Leo Rice, the New School alumnus crafts a surreal story of myth, madness, and an everlasting quest.
While first ideated as a series of interconnected short stories, The Squimbop Condition threads together years of writing into a complete fable-like narrative. The novel follows two brothers, Jim and Joe Squimbop, as they slip and slide through time, realities, and history. From Hollywood to Europe to Dodge City and all around the globe, the bizarre duo reshape reality in their endless mission to bring about the Golden Age in this sometimes-slapstick,
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Global Voices Interviews
In the latest installment of LIT’s Global Voices interview series, Québecoise poet, translator, and scholar Chloé Savoie-Bernard speaks on fragmentation, feminist and queer legacies, the politics of opacity, and the power of poetry to make kingdoms from ruins.
