Helping Us Process Our Pain Even As You Process Yours | A Conversation with Marjorie Maddox

In the video below, Anna Cotton sits down with Marjorie Maddox to talk about her recent book Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts, 2022), an ekphrastic collection of poems and photographs created in collaboration with Karen Elias. Maddox wrote the poems; Elias took the photographs. The book pairs a total of sixteen images with […]

What Makes You a Poet Is How You Put It Back Together | A Conversation with Celia Lisset Alvarez

Editorial Note: Isabella Sanchez interviewed Celia Lisset Alvarez for my Poetry Writing II course at The University of Tampa in Spring 2021. I find their conversation incredibly engaging and meaningful, and I’m grateful for them allowing me to share it here. Isa wrote the following introduction. Cuban American scholar and poet Celia Lisset Alvarez is […]