https://www.theshipmanagency.com/speakers daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1679169129520-TU1HGKDAJ1RPB0U7AEBV/image-asset.jpeg Speakers - Cara Blue Adams https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lesley-nneka-arimah daily 0.75 2023-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/751848a7-c79d-416d-a701-72c7e03fbec1/Lesley+Arimah+%28c%29+Emily+Baxter+larger.jpg Lesley Nneka Arimah - Lesley Nneka Arimah “I am taken with the idea of creating new myths that speak to our current world in the same way that old mythology spoke to the world in its creator’s’ time.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/delana-ra-dameron daily 0.75 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1748451868625-OS2FDL7Y9X5069VK38DX/IMG_5271.jpeg DéLana R.A. Dameron - DéLana R.A. Dameron (c) Laurent Chevalier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6b13a510-c511-49eb-8d24-3b8cc6882be8/october2023scans_roll19_frame07+copy+2.JPG DéLana R.A. Dameron - DéLana R.A. Dameron “My relationship to the South (always capital S) is complicated, and loaded. But there will always be reverence and love. I had to put distance between us to know how to love it, to appreciate what it gave me, to understand what it might have taken away. Only lately have I been able to articulate, or understand, that I moved to New York City in order to know how to love the South — and myself — better.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/patricia-spears-jones daily 0.75 2023-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1511740290871-WD9H5B0FW5TSYNGH8SLN/_MG_0475.jpg Patricia Spears Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1512453070074-AFF859QUUUSFU1TRI9VR/_MG_0230.jpg Patricia Spears Jones - Patricia Spears Jones (c) Rachel Eliza Griffith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/4a20e7bb-f1cd-41b3-80f2-7691514fcaaf/_MG_0475.jpg Patricia Spears Jones - Patricia Spears Jones “I always think of myself as evoking the blues in my poetry, and the blues are never ‘happy’ even when they’re ecstatic. There’s a sense of temporality of life. We’re only here for a brief time. There is only so much we can do. People have enemies and there are difficulties. And sometimes there’s great music and great sex to lighten the load.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rickey-laurentiis daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1709918080590-53C258WWAI0VZY78NWAB/eWhiting032218Laurentiis49BSheehan.jpg Rickey Laurentiis - Rickey Laurentiis (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/295320bb-d6bf-476d-864f-42d3697af736/Rickey.jpg Rickey Laurentiis - Rickey Laurentiis “I think my duty is pitched toward the past (the dead) and toward the future (the not-yet-born). Paradoxically, this means I must be explicitly, deeply, critically moored to the present.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jenny-johnson daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1511741125994-OPAVAVF3H94QLT2PBCF6/Johnson.Jenny.JPG Jenny Johnson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1512199114796-D7FWDXLB4252GPKO0R8N/Johnson.Jenny.JPG Jenny Johnson - Jenny Johnson (c) Brooke Wyatt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1638134115939-LPE1WY5CJXOBQL94MLMH/Johnson.Jenny%2B%25281%2529.jpg Jenny Johnson - Jenny Johnson “Writing for me is an ongoing practice of facing and countering fears...I am often most surprised by the writing that comes from facing fears that strike closest to home, poems that explore internalized phobias about gender identity, sexuality, and the body, poems that struggle with a question like do I deserve love? I’m thinking of a line in an older poem of mine called 'Mirror Box Visions' that instructs, 'Come because her mother says you’re no good.' That line took courage to write.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/daniel-jose-older daily 0.75 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1512604867809-HKZXF3SK4FQEBO9JB0HO/daniel-jose-older-may20-2016-162+credit+John+Midgley+%282%29.jpg Daniel José Older - Daniel José Older (c) John Midgley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/af8a7df0-8185-465c-8b1b-19aa84389519/DJO_John-Midgley-Headshot-2.jpg Daniel José Older - Daniel José Older “I think storytelling is our deepest form of expression. It’s something we all do as humans, and I think it very often saves our lives. It’s how we process the world. It’s how we understand things and muddle through the problems we’re going through, whether they’re personal problems or gigantic, world-changing problems.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kristen-radtke daily 0.75 2025-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1714486262802-N567CDK54W3WW7SHHURR/B%26W_Kristen_smaller.jpg Kristen Radtke - Kristen Radtke (c) Amelia Holowaty Krales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2f407328-2497-4874-a458-cd61f21b0b84/Kristen+Radtke_credit+Amelia+Holowaty+Krales.jpg Kristen Radtke - Kristen Radtke “I don’t think choosing forms is ever a conscious decision, at least not for me. The best thing I can do for myself is follow my intuition — to write, or draw, in the direction I feel compelled to move...I think we have to do whatever we can to carve out a space in which we can create, and guard it ferociously.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/dana-levin daily 0.75 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1659467455770-VZ5NHIJSK1TAKZDWC40O/Dana+Levin_author_photo_color_credit--Anne+Staveley.jpg Dana Levin - Dana Levin (c) B.A. Van Sise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0d499768-3635-4905-a858-36ff63f85a01/FE489360-E7A3-485F-BBDD-322838E02383.png Dana Levin - Dana Levin “And poetry, one of the reasons why it's such a subversive art form is that it has the capacity to really ask you to just slow down, and be with your discomfort and your uncertainty and your not knowing and your confusion...” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rob-spillman daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1512681936259-NKPP3ZAETWAFQN5P1H26/Rob+Spillman+Author+photo+%283%29.jpg Rob Spillman - Rob Spillman (c) Foster Mickley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1645570326361-GY5P1VHWX1ZUSKNK5O8G/Rob%252BSpillman%252BAuthor%252Bphoto%252B%25283%2529.jpg Rob Spillman - Rob Spillman “When I teach, I tell my students, “You have to read your work out loud.” Because you end up feeling it in a non intellectual way. You feel it in a body way. There’s this bullshit detector that your body has that tells you when you’re faking it.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/tiphanie-yanique daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1613068408381-VUX28ZC3B9T7M00ZXVY9/YaniquePhoto2+%28c%29+Debbie+Grossman.jpg Tiphanie Yanique - Tiphanie Yanique (c) Kay Hinton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/f90a649d-5d94-446d-9b38-9f432c62b2b5/image0-4.jpeg Tiphanie Yanique - Tiphanie Yanique “I have always understood myself to be a writer. On the most elemental level, as long as I’ve known my own name, as long as I’ve had a consciousness, I’ve also been writing – creating stories. So in that way, it’s always been part of me...But I think the reason I’m a professional writer has to do with the fact that my mother and my grandmother were both writers before me.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jennifer-michael-hecht daily 0.75 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1597871235642-QUNPMD9XDE7JT2P1I6YN/IMG_7788.jpg Jennifer Michael Hecht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1675776935152-SLZ2AVXRS0G30JY0LYG2/publicity+photo+2016.jpg Jennifer Michael Hecht - Jennifer Michael Hecht (c) Max Hecht-Chaneski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1675776992327-5EPXSUSH882K10QAWLD2/Hecht_TheWonderParadox_auphoto.jpeg Jennifer Michael Hecht - Jennifer Michael Hecht “None of us can truly know what we mean to other people, and none of us can know what our future self will experience. History and philosophy ask us to remember these mysteries, to look around at friends, family, humanity, at the surprises life brings — the endless possibilities that living offers — and to persevere.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news daily 0.75 2025-06-08 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news/2025/6/8/a-client-chat-with-samiya-bashir monthly 0.5 2025-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e2c8b1b7-30cf-466e-9056-20ee9f203d78/2018-headshot-9234.jpg News - A Client Chat with Samiya Bashir Shipman Agency staffer and Starboard editor Kira Tucker spoke with Samiya Bashir about her latest book, I Hope This Helps, out May 13 from Nightboat Books. Read below as Samiya explores the making of her “magnum opus” (Jericho Brown) and much more. Kira Tucker: I Hope This Helps—the book and the art exhibition—is a multimedia mix of visual art, sound, and text—from libretti to sculpture, erasure to cinepoetry, and more. How does being so “genre queer” impact your work? Samiya Bashir: Being “genre queer,” as I call it, isn’t an aesthetic choice—it’s a survival strategy. It’s how I breathe inside the constraints that are always trying to hem us in. Formally, it’s a refusal. Spiritually, it’s a homecoming. Some stories want to be sung. Some want to be walked through. Some want to bleed through the page, or the wall, or your headphones. Who am I to tell a poem how to show up? My job is to listen. To honor what it asks for. To not flatten it just because it doesn’t fit neatly on a shelf. That’s how I ended up with a book that’s also an installation that’s also a chorus that’s also a map. That’s what Black life has taught me: we’re never just one thing. We never were. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/67cd97e0-ec05-4e68-a387-be4c84249be9/9781643622729_FC-2-2-768x1152.jpg News - A Client Chat with Samiya Bashir Terrance Hayes writes that your work is “a lantern of language for surviving dark times.” The Africa Center, where your exhibition was on display last summer, praises your work for evoking “the relentless pursuit of hope amidst uncertainty.” What do you hope is carried forward from this book? I hope they carry the permission to feel what they’re feeling without apology. I hope they remember that language can be a balm, a weapon, a mirror, a prayer—and sometimes all at once. I hope someone picks up this book on a day when the world has gone quiet around them, and they find themselves less alone. And I hope, in some small way, it helps. Samiya Bashir is a prolific poet, artist, writer, performer, educator, and advocate. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Field Theories (Nightboat, 2017)—winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Awards Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry—Gospel (Redbone Press, 2009), and Where the Apple Falls (Redbone Press, 2005). Formerly an associate professor at Reed College, she currently serves as the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She lives in Harlem. 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https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news/tag/toi+derricote monthly 0.5 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news/tag/Lesley+Nneka+Arimah monthly 0.5 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news/tag/Patricia+Smith monthly 0.5 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/news/tag/Fiction monthly 0.5 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/brendan-kiely daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1515211436754-SCB55C35FDM8XUK78332/BK+b%26w.jpg Brendan Kiely - Brendan Kiely (c) Gary Joseph Cohen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e3bd4ebe-25ca-4e39-b817-5540ad491195/BK+color+photo.jpg Brendan Kiely - Brendan Kiely “As a teacher and a writer, I think stories should be entertaining; characters, their desires and conflicts, should always come first--as John Gardner suggested, a writer's job is to construct an uninterrupted dream the reader experiences from the first to the final page. I strive to write those vivid, memorable dreams, and for me, the dreams I appreciate most are the ones that help me reflect on what it means to be a human being in my society today...” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/safiya-sinclair daily 0.75 2024-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1696264310597-1LV22WYZHT10IJL79VYU/Safiya+Sinclair+Author+Photo+Full.jpg Safiya Sinclair (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e9d2421b-5228-4f97-bac0-84d23c197e7b/Safiya+SInclair+Author+Photo+2023.jpg Safiya Sinclair - Safiya Sinclair “I decided that my responsibility as a poet was to always keep my gaze centered on my Jamaican landscape, to tell the stories of Jamaican womanhood, of blackness and marginalization, to write against postcolonial history and nurture anti-colonial selfhood.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ryan-berg daily 0.75 2023-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1517691328052-DU76F2QY4BW7XX4NOK3C/Berg-Ryan.jpg Ryan Berg - (c) Alfred Walking Bull/PFund Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1669839080205-Q1O5AXHL04RAYYL8J2G0/Berg-Ryan.jpeg Ryan Berg - Ryan Berg “It's hard to build empathy through statistics. That's what stories are for.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/phillip-lopate daily 0.75 2024-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1518050331045-PLAFRIR7SRD3LDG79ZHQ/IMG_2723.jpg Phillip Lopate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/f718cbba-f103-4d07-849b-35822da5ff72/Copy+of+IMG_2723.jpg Phillip Lopate - Phillip Lopate “When you’re writing an essay, you as the essayist are both moving forward and circling back to what you said and arguing with yourself, or at least asking yourself if this is what you really think. That’s part of the scrupulousness of this kind of writing. It’s not, is this what others think I should think? but, is this what I actually think?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/adam-haslett daily 0.75 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1518987710945-XJFBD4R4XHG4U9EWOFU5/Haslett_credit+Beowulf+Sheehan.jpg Adam Haslett - Adam Haslett (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1518988517028-VZBS6E906JU1V0IO3P5W/Haslett_credit+Beowulf+Sheehan+%281%29.jpg Adam Haslett - Adam Haslett “I am obsessed with the reader’s attention. The reader’s mind. Being able to structure a moment of consciousness within the reader. It’s one of the reasons I love to read aloud because I can then deliver the rhythm in addition to the sequence.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/porochista-khakpour daily 0.75 2024-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1520106622781-EG19LXN3860SLPHC2V34/Sick-PB-c-1+%281%29.jpg Porochista Khakpour https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/bc71749b-777c-4ea7-82ef-43a3f6f81514/20240128_Porochista_Khakpour_TheNines_author_photo00001_FINAL.jpg Porochista Khakpour - Porochista Khakpour “I have a longing for what is real, even though I know that authentic expression is a dicey operation.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/nicole-dennisbenn daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1535052582061-VM7PP2RR74UTKY4V6VIL/nicole_d-b2_168.JPG Nicole Dennis-Benn - Nicole Dennis-Benn (c) Jason Berger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1655917607642-NTXXME7B7MJJS5F4VL6J/nicole_d-b2_168+%281%29.jpeg Nicole Dennis-Benn - Nicole Dennis-Benn “I believe that writing can change the world. The world will be a better one when we can come to the table without judging each other or dismissing each other based on perceived differences. We are inclined to think that if someone doesn’t look like us or is of another culture and religion, then they’re different from us. At the end of the day, we all desire to be seen, heard, and loved as human beings.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/patricia-smith daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1749826191668-WT9UADGCBPFXGC59JGEO/Beo+Color+Headshot+++%281%29.jpg Patricia Smith - Patricia Smith © Sandro Miller https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d2d3f756-7fd4-4db4-961c-5161d931aaab/Headshot1+TIFF.jpg Patricia Smith - Patricia Smith “Words are muscle. They may seem otherwise, like they just sit on a page doing nothing worthwhile, but I’m constantly astonished by what a well-turned stanza can accomplish.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/meredith-talusan daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1586553623488-4AY26WLPA0PZH5ODJ4NL/Meredith%2BTalusan%2BPhoto%2B-%2BCredit%2BLeah%2BJames.jpg Meredith Talusan - Meredith Talusan (c) Abrica Tierra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/03fb1554-9f3c-47c6-a1fd-e4ff56aa724b/MeredithTalusan%2B%281%29.jpg Meredith Talusan - Meredith Talusan “When you grow up in rural Philippines where learning English is a privilege, or having access to books is a privilege, you think of the time and ability to write as an absolute gift. I feel like there's this American cultural standard that writing is tortuous and I am going to admit that it has never been that for me, at least not internally even when I've experienced many years of the world not really getting my writing. For me writing has always been a safe, loving place, and I'm grateful for that.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ilya-kaminsky daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1526768429860-SA54290MH700EVPYR4HY/Kaminsky+B%26W2.jpg Ilya Kaminsky - Ilya Kaminsky (c) Cybele Knowles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/3fe798ec-0e7a-4234-91c6-08527842aa0f/ilya-kaminsky-fall-2019-800x533.jpg Ilya Kaminsky - Ilya Kaminsky “I don't write in a language in which I have ever heard lullabies as a child. My English is the world I make as I go. It is already a private language, an imaginary language. Already a wreckage. My job is to find, among those wreckages, what is beautiful, what might have lasting value (however mistaken I might be about that value) what is worth learning by heart, repeating, becoming a spell. That is the goal.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sarah-manguso daily 0.75 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1623779678540-ME987KNV7LQDX4BWAMUB/20180129_8CE_7494_jb.jpg Sarah Manguso - Sarah Manguso (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1b1eaaa5-6035-4332-a99e-042a20d28944/SarahManguso052721_094BeowulfSheehan.jpg Sarah Manguso - Sarah Manguso “Life is beautiful because, thanks to death, it is finite—every doughnut might be your last doughnut. That potential lastness casts a shimmer of appreciation and longing onto every experience.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/anna-clark daily 0.75 2025-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1601926260541-X46XY1PKWT7SEC362CU3/Author+image+credit+Philip+Dattilo.jpg Anna Clark - Anna Clark (c) Erin Kirkland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1638051657940-QLE8JCRYC7FQA80GN7C1/Author%2Bimage%2Bcredit%2BPhilip%2BDattilo.jpeg Anna Clark - Anna Clark "Journalism opens me up: I look, I listen, I ask, I think. I experience the world as a verb. There's alchemy in fusing the power of language with tangible facts, and the act of trying to tell stories changes me, too. The classic reporter questions are really quite profound, when you think about them: Who? Where? What? When? How? Why?" https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sunil-yapa daily 0.75 2024-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1529174591872-RJ4YD40QOILZ9N8MLR3B/image1.jpeg Sunil Yapa - Sunil Yapa (c) Franco Vogt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/79a9e4b1-c959-4f9b-a148-a3d0aee8ebf7/image1.jpeg Sunil Yapa - Sunil Yapa “We live in a world in which our lives are linked with people thousands of miles away. Each person has a real life. Empathy is a radical act, particularly when you use it to connect with people who are very different from you. Loving others is wonderful, but caring for others is profound.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/monique-truong daily 0.75 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1550426869796-6YF31Z2UFGQGLLSIUOQX/TRANSIT_MoniqueTruong5.jpg Monique Truong - Monique Truong (c) Haruka Sakaguchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1637963594370-YZ7TXUUKQKYWZ8UMWJ23/TRANSIT_MoniqueTruong5.jpg Monique Truong - Monique Truong “Writers or rather our works begin the conversations about the difficult, unanswerable subjects of life, and often our works keep the conversations going when everyone else would rather forget. We are the antidote to bread and circuses.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/craig-morgan-teicher daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1530990529554-UUJFOAVV0DJ6EFUOKDQ2/021_CraigTeicher2012-author-pic-HI-RES-credit-Sarah-Tew.jpg Craig Morgan Teicher - Craig Morgan Teicher (c) Sarah Tew https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/887e96bf-3ea3-4b4b-b37e-c2abf7b11d86/021_CraigTeicher2012-author-pic-HI-RES-credit-Sarah-Tew.jpg Craig Morgan Teicher - Craig Morgan Teicher “I think a very basic human tragedy, a basic frustration, is the inability to really cross the border between inner and outer lives. Language is our best bet for making that crossing, but there is so much from inside that never gets out on the backs of words...poetry, and especially formal poetry, is basically meaningful, but the form is always trying to tell us the story of what can't be said in its own words. Every poem is about what isn't in it.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jordy-rosenberg daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1763668103057-R0FRXHHV0LKJ5V391VOY/hiressheehanfullbodyrevised.jpg Jordy Rosenberg - Jordy Rosenberg (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/370bec89-75d4-4176-b36e-2d5e09016022/Jordy+Headshot+November+2025+Color+2.jpg Jordy Rosenberg - Jordy Rosenberg “The thing about fiction. . .is that you leap into an unknown space in the reader, and speak to that. I have some confidence and hope that trans readers and queer readers will feel spoken to and feel the intimacy that I was trying to generate in the writing. But you can’t control who the reader is. I wanted to make that form of intimacy open to whoever.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/willie-perdomo daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1590440414389-2LRR4119VS0168NM2L8W/PERDOMO+AUTHOR+PHOTO1.JPG Willie Perdomo - Willie Perdomo (c) Madame Perdomo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/049a4dab-9a33-4068-8965-02cf090f2012/IMG_7150.jpg Willie Perdomo - Willie Perdomo “It...seems to me, and I think maybe this is more personal than anything else, that we tend to use poetry to preserve our sense of dream, our dream space, even. There are some spaces that should be sacred. Even if we negotiate some sort of oppression, we still have to preserve some of that space so that we can get in touch with our silences, and be able to process those silences.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/katie-peterson daily 0.75 2024-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1533410426048-JYW2J82H2A85501H53UK/_MG_3219.jpg Katie Peterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/4e1758ed-a0a4-4643-8b21-e43c61ab31a3/_DSF7711.jpg Katie Peterson - Katie Peterson “I like a poem that feels logical but is not—a poem in which thinking takes the shape of a hallucination. I like a poem in which all of my intelligence fails. I am forced to use other tools: desire, anger, recklessness. I pursue beauty and memory not to preserve them but to try, against odds, to preserve that perishable pursuit.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ramona-ausubel daily 0.75 2023-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1535301615776-XXI7D0H3RCYPWZAHEOQR/DSC_0678.jpeg Ramona Ausubel - Ramona Ausubel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9885b2cf-1247-4242-88ea-7c73e7dc1a84/DSC_0678.jpeg Ramona Ausubel - Ramona Ausubel “For me, humor is totally necessary, in the way that a certain organ is necessary, yet you have no idea how it works. I don’t think about humor logically, as in, I don’t see a dark place in a story and think, “I could use some comic relief here.” It’s much more instinctual than that, and actually I think that’s a feature of humor in general. We need it, even, or especially, in the hardest situations.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/amanda-stern daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1538939901636-NMX06JN25VAUCHFTJR2A/author+photo.jpg Amanda Stern - Amanda Stern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/834e2365-03f7-43de-a4b6-a9b992002cef/author+photo-2.jpg Amanda Stern - Amanda Stern “My goal was to write an autobiography of an emotion; to reveal my experience of being human in this life. My hope is that [readers] will identify with my so-called failures, relate to my dread and fear that something was wrong with me, and in that recognition they’ll feel seen.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/marie-myungok-lee daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1541344343001-V81MOXKP7YZFQUUAQV7A/north+korean+guide+ml+author+photo.jpg Marie Myung-Ok Lee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1599844593599-FN8WA22C6J5QGDEURUEK/adrianne_mathiowetz_web-6.jpg Marie Myung-Ok Lee - Marie Myung-Ok Lee (c) Adrianne Mathiowetz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c28bd13c-f69e-480d-a5ff-c73cd298fe93/smiling+a_mathiowetz_highres-3+head+shot++copy.jpg Marie Myung-Ok Lee - Marie Myung-Ok Lee “At 9, when I inherited an old typewriter from my older brother, I was so enamored of how “professional” the words appeared before my eyes that I wrote my first book — about horses — and I think I sold it to my parents for a quarter. From that moment on, all I wanted to do was to write and publish stories.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sandy-allen daily 0.75 2025-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1732541967099-F96NAZVESBBBB9LHT9PO/sandy.jpg Sandy Allen - Sandy Allen (c) Divine Brujeria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/8d59aafc-8c21-416b-bcf1-0399a050672e/Headshot.jpg Sandy Allen - Sandy Ernest Allen “The book is an attempt to contend with the fact that facts don’t always square; that there isn’t an ultimate answer to many of the big questions; that a work of nonfiction can’t make good on its promises unless it acknowledges that the record might not add up, or that there might be radically incompatible versions of the truth.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/michele-filgate daily 0.75 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1546712126255-RR70W6MFRQYQM8C5BHZB/Michele+Filgate+portraits_hi-res_19.jpg Michele Filgate - Michele Filgate (c) Sylvie Rosokoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c1d28fd8-fb40-45bd-9255-7c73e5f57442/Michele_Filgate_portraits_15_websize.jpg Michele Filgate - Michele Filgate “But there are some sounds I squeeze myself into; I want to be held hostage, I want to be blindfolded so that I’m surrounded by nothingness; opened up by sudden thunder outside of my window, clean rain bouncing off of the peeling deck, hissing, warm, cloud tongue on earth, dirt becoming saliva.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/toi-derricotte daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1549819362391-SGQINLR6MKOZEUSP6ZA7/toi+author+photo.jpg Toi Derricotte - Toi Derricotte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1549820711242-SGJLIED5K9RV3VZEZ1RL/toi+author+photo.jpg Toi Derricotte - Toi Derricotte “I think a poem puts something that has shape and order into the world. And I think that has meaning for people. I think poetry is sort of on the side of good, because evil seems to me—I have experienced evil—as something that breaks apart a connection between the self and between people, and I sense that a certain kind of order of things brings peace, love, compassion, understanding. And so I hope to do some of that kind of work when I do my work.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/laura-van-den-berg daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1693485623826-NBBVPK8D46G8ROR8Q2K0/LauraAuthor300DPI.jpg Laura van den Berg - Laura van den Berg (c) Lucy Bohnsack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2039e48c-6f92-4595-b593-0325188be7a1/LauraPhoto3.jpg Laura van den Berg - Laura van den Berg “There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self. It's the secret self, the part of us that we really don't understand, that compels us to do things that we're bewildered or startled by.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/p-carl daily 0.75 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1559952671650-5T11O60PH39ROB737ZYI/Carl_GO8A1698_060319.jpg P. Carl - P. Carl (c) Asia Kepka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0bbaf209-4be9-435a-bd02-8cc71f688d81/Screen-Shot-2020-01-17-at-11.59.24-AM.png P. Carl - P. Carl “As a social justice advocate who has lived most of my life as a queer white woman and felt the discrimination that comes with that subject position, what does it mean to inhabit white masculinity at this time in our history?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/david-ulin daily 0.75 2023-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1553466841212-Q2FBITWHDDBI4QMJFENH/June+2016+Residency+%282%29.jpg David Ulin - David L. Ulin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c4ceea9a-e419-4572-a6d1-851bd4d39d47/david%2Bulin.jpg David Ulin - David L. Ulin “Reading is an empathy machine. It puts us into the hearts and minds and souls of others—how can we not confront our common humanity when we participate in that?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/brynne-rebelehenry daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1555176445142-7A318B8S6PEFX1D3BWCY/BrynneRebeleHenryHeadshot12019.jpeg Brynne Rebele-Henry - Brynne Rebele-Henry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1593272533854-P4E9SM89ZB5WXGI4LPGR/BrynneRebeleHenryHeadshot12019+%283%29.jpeg Brynne Rebele-Henry - Brynne Rebele-Henry “I’m motivated by the lack of positive queer representation and lesbian writers in mainstream literature. I want to try to make queer women’s stories something that’s more universally read and accepted. I’m not interested in exploring the cause of homophobia, but rather in writing about the affects that it has on queer people.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sheila-heti daily 0.75 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1556993147344-XHAYL0GEMBPQX9D7VP8Z/Screen+Shot+2019-05-01+at+6.26.26+PM+%281%29.png Sheila Heti - Sheila Heti (c) Malcolm Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/19e5e82f-0622-45c1-a729-2828f1fd2045/Sheila-HEti-scaled.jpg Sheila Heti - Sheila Heti “I think every great artist is also a great craftsman, knows what they’re doing, and has a certain amount of control over their hand. But I think an artist must also allow for the possibility of being surprised while working, and should follow what seem like irrational impulses. It’s a paradox, maybe, to talk about it, but when you’re working, it doesn’t feel that way. It feels harmonious.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/dorothea-lasky daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1560622419641-5H3K7ZFKUDF71CMHM9BH/Party_bw_DLasky.JPG Dorothea Lasky - Dorothea Lasky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1586080535830-X6PM8DI5JANP1FAGFOLR/Party_bw_DLasky.jpeg Dorothea Lasky - Dorothea Lasky “I think that if you live your life drawn to your creative instincts, there is a connection in everything that you do. When people tell me they only have one talent or one expertise, I never believe them. When you think of the new, the world becomes your never-ending masterpiece.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/michael-dickman daily 0.75 2024-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1560711808568-FCFWL6C8A3NH28BUX42R/Michael+Dickman_6288.jpg Michael Dickman - Michael DIckman (c) Michael Lionstar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1656172075764-GGMQS2TUXSNV4TPPS8CR/Michael%2BDickman_6288.jpeg Michael Dickman - Michael Dickman “I love to participate in art that keeps a little distance at first, something that doesn’t come all the way out to meet me. Does every thought or line or image need to be completed in a poem? I wonder.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/david-shields daily 0.75 2024-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1588621953408-EUNP7X0RUVBEGP9R22BP/DavidShields_6902_ver4.jpg David Shields - David Shields (c) Tom Collicott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0b8e9636-b5c6-4f09-9875-5571fa292cc4/David_Shields__MG_9600_LR-1-358x480%402x.jpg David Shields - David Shields “I’m animated by work that stretches me emotionally and intellectually. I remain provoked by the transgressive property of a work. I want a work that shocks me awake, not lulls me to sleep, that talks about what you’re not supposed to talk about. That’s my whole modus operandi. Without that, I don’t get to the page. Everything else is dull.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/deb-olin-unferth daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1764961765176-9E2HACDI4PJ3NSRH17JK/DebOlinUnferth-0990+.jpg Deb Olin Unferth - Deb Olin Unferth (c) Nick Berard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/fb2f22c0-cdca-40a3-b4de-800fc9514ae0/DebUnferth+1960+Nick+Berard++%281%29.jpg Deb Olin Unferth - Deb Olin Unferth “I love the way the best fiction holds two contrary truths beside each other. That feels real to me. That feels like something only art can do: embrace complexity and contradiction.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/damaris-hill daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1566068074751-UET51RN3R08PCRDETI8F/DaMaris_11.jpg Damaris Hill - DaMaris B. Hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/46bc60df-0711-4a8b-9e99-204b29f330b2/DaMaris_11.jpg Damaris Hill - DaMaris B. Hill “History can be so narrow in the ways that they talk about a person's life.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lizz-winstead daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1568484437529-DS5DPAJTCIECDZOG63HV/headshot+black+turtle+smiling.jpg Lizz Winstead - Lizz Winstead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/3cc16156-2bf8-4ae0-88f2-c3ec99bc6d14/headshot+black+turtle+smiling.jpg Lizz Winstead - Lizz Winstead “There's this interesting thing — if you make someone laugh, you have a bond. And so if you can make someone laugh who you disagree with, they have to acknowledge that on some level they like you, and sometimes then you can work things out.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/molly-mccully-brown daily 0.75 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1569090191637-WL69RVXADGZYGPWZWL14/05_04P7204538-1024x768.jpg Molly McCully Brown - Molly McCully Brown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0e83a2c6-7e54-49cf-8abb-623406285e83/05_04P7204538-1024x768.jpg Molly McCully Brown - Molly McCully Brown “The best poems, I think, are acts of discovery, and we never discover anything if we aren’t willing to wander toward what seems difficult, or unknown, or fraught, or tangled, the edges of the map where there might be dragons. And what’s waiting over the edge of the map is different not just for every person, but for the versions of yourself you are from one year, or day, or minute to the next.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/katie-farris daily 0.75 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1744042191292-BI8L3FYA7SC954WYLG3S/Farris+Author+Photo+%281%29.jpg Katie Farris - Katie Farris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/202a02d8-8e6a-46f6-b510-e62ff0e55f04/Farris+Author+Photo+2025.jpeg Katie Farris - Katie Farris “One of the most exciting parts of being a writer during this time is the way that increasingly, mainstream culture is opening up spaces in language and in identity, creating continuums where people used to see only opposing ideas. Rather than boys are blue and girls are pink and never the twain shall meet, the mainstream is beginning to see a beautiful palate of purples entering their vocabulary.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/azareen daily 0.75 2023-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1579457276039-Q31WD16UU6A686EUBT8H/Whiting030615AzareenVDVOloomi42Beowulf.jpg Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6ee22b81-ab68-4507-b2b6-f70936ca3f66/Whiting030615AzareenVDVOloomi42Beowulf.jpg Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi For me, literature is landscape. Landscape happens to be an extraordinarily mutable, dynamic surface, and one that, much like the novel, registers the passage of time. I am particularly interested in the ways that literature and landscape disappear into and mirror one another.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/darcey-steinke daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1580591756030-SGO4FSW9IIJ98STG5LUZ/darcy_portraits-6860_ncphoto.jpg Darcey Steinke - Darcey Steinke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c4bdfa02-8a9f-402c-ad63-f5078af8892b/darcy_portraits-6860_ncphoto.jpg Darcey Steinke - Darcey Steinke “In our culture, people that are different are a real flash point in what we think about ourselves, what we think about God. The idea, “Does God exist if they made this person?” Or, “Does everyone need to look like us to be us?” It’s not about that at all. It is so much more about who we are and what it is to be human.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lillian-yvonne-bertram daily 0.75 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1581876268228-WUZ9UZAR30G5XCTHGT2C/a_mathiowetz_crop-1.jpg Lillian Yvonne Bertram https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1581873215254-TBPZB1LL8W4FA634RBLF/a_mathiowetz_crop-1.jpg Lillian Yvonne Bertram - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (c)Adrienne Mathiowetz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1586079145265-JH8JG3965XF3J8PLM3IP/lillian.jpg Lillian Yvonne Bertram - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram “While technology as such wasn’t always part of my practice, innovation and pushing the boundaries have been. Long before I was able to write programs that created new ways for me to compose poems, I had been doing similar things by hand. I work with language as a material and have always been interested in the way this material can be arranged, rearranged, randomized, and permuted.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ariana-reines daily 0.75 2025-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1732730362745-OGU6LAIA30Q2TUZ84OU9/IMG_2863.jpg Ariana Reines - Ariana Reines © Collier Schorr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/49d32003-d518-4192-9d29-794c4015f554/Ariana_L1070688_02.jpg Ariana Reines - Ariana Reines “People have different kinds of understandings of form and structure and accuracy. This is especially true of an art like poetry, which is so liquid. It can be about anything, it can take any form, and you don’t have to pay anybody for equipment. There’s absolutely no restriction on it. So because of that, it has to do certain things if it’s going to last.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/a-van-jordan daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1759867147230-GYD9HJDTX3ICODH8UVV6/JORDAN-HEAD+SHOT.jpg Van Jordan - A. Van Jordan © Do Pham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d6bf515a-bf2a-45a5-9922-99ac4c3c502d/A+Van+Jordan+headshot.jpg Van Jordan - A. Van Jordan “I think sometimes what happens is we think about poetry, and we put it in a box, and then we think about fiction and put it in another box, and playwriting in another box. But I think in writing in general, we’re constantly thinking about how to represent character, how to represent experience.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/andrea-lawlor daily 0.75 2025-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1708277202640-Z0MMB4G8WXIDDX6B171D/LawlorPortrait-credit-RaminTalaie+%281%29.JPG Andrea Lawlor - Andrea Lawlor (c) Joanna Chattman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/ff098682-186f-4eaa-ab18-0d304e55c74d/AndreaLawlor137-creditJoannaChattman+copy.jpg Andrea Lawlor - Andrea Lawlor “I am interested in the seeking, in the quest. It is always going to be messy.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/khadijah-queen daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1702476511318-826EZISPRF67NLTM3583/KQ+by+M+Teak.jpg Khadijah Queen - Khadijah Queen (c) Marco Giugliarelli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/fbba081b-065a-422b-8fb3-94c3b0083453/Headshot+-+Civitella+2023+-+Upupa+Studio+Edited.jpg Khadijah Queen - Khadijah Queen “Emotional adherence is part of my creative practice, and the difficulty some find in a disruptive logic I find exciting, all of which informs any syntactical pulse.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kaitlyn-greenidge daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1587919104314-ZM0N163O2H1U0V0Z74V7/Kaitlyn+Greenidge+Author+Photo.jpg Kaitlyn Greenidge - Kaitlyn Greenidge (c) Syreeta McFadden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1590683115451-I3D7SUMS6GEDM68KN1LE/Kaitlyn%252BGreenidge%252BAuthor%252BPhoto.jpg Kaitlyn Greenidge - Kaitlyn Greenidge “One of the things that we are tasked with in the world is to figure out which language we can use to describe our realities. I think that one of the great things about being human is that we can imagine better ways for ourselves, better worlds for ourselves.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/alexander-chee daily 0.75 2024-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1590336127574-QFUC8AEYRLU7TVVAZWM8/20190129_Alex_Chee_rg_107.jpg Alexander Chee - Alexander Chee (c) Robert Gill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1679686173667-GINAWGTBSFPZOBYL6HHP/20190129_Alex_Chee_rg_107+%282%29.jpg Alexander Chee - Alexander Chee “To write is to sell a ticket to escape, not from the truth but into it. My job is to make something happen in a space barely larger than the span of your hand, behind your eyes, distilled out of all that I have carried, from friends, teachers, people met on planes, people I have seen only in my mind, all my mother and father ever did, every favorite book, until it meets and distills from you, the reader, something out of the everything it finds in you.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/roy-guzman daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1595609908741-SQHSIMV3598PI788LJE2/Author+Photo-Kai+Coggin.jpg Roy Guzman - Roy G. Guzmán (c) Kai Coggin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/950a4803-66b5-4f10-9415-ebdea67f2f48/Author+Photo-Kai+Coggin.jpg Roy Guzman - Roy G. Guzmán “I want to be able to use language as a way to awaken people, to remind people, ‘This is your history. These are the things that you did not know affect you, but they have in fact been affecting you.’” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ling-ma daily 0.75 2024-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1601236006826-RHYMEY0MRI3TRKJ3Z1HN/LingMa_Headshot-1803.JPG Ling Ma - Ling Ma (c) Anjali Pinto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1c96e906-ecaf-46ae-a280-637cc321e9da/LingMa_Headshot-1803.JPG Ling Ma - Ling Ma “The best part about starting out as a writer is the freedom to make anything you want, to experiment and take risks, adhering to or breaking whichever rules you choose. In the end, however, we are only ourselves, and it is the work we produce, even in its roughest drafts, that ultimately informs us what we’re trying to do.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/zak daily 0.75 2024-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1602517454908-HWDWEJEQQ1LM2T0EBX9F/pictureWEB.jpg Zakiyyah Jackson - Zakiyyah Iman Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/097d8a8b-524e-4d3b-9f83-113f35c3e6a4/pictureWEB.jpg Zakiyyah Jackson - Zakiyyah Jackson “I find that black women and works of art often occupy similar positions in critical discourse, as the object of someone else's theory, as objectified by theory, or worse, as a muse. I want to provide a model for reading African diasporic literature and visual art for the philosophical premises and implication of these forms and traditions.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/dan-chaon daily 0.75 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1604165939500-F5BZWJA0P1TGI22X4KG1/Chaon_Dan.jpg Dan Chaon - Dan Chaon (c) Géraldine Aresteanu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d157a9e6-978d-43c8-9e36-13b7778ab2dc/Chaon_Dan.jpg Dan Chaon - Dan Chaon “All fiction is fan fiction, in a way—you fall in love with books when you’re a kid, and then you try to sing to those books so that they can hear you.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/francine-harris daily 0.75 2023-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1604248697041-OR73F55MXVW80Z6Q2P0N/DSC_0816.jpg francine harris - francine j. harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/90922a8c-b5c6-4386-8d9b-fec998990456/DSC_0816.jpg francine harris - francine j. harris “I guess I realized in the last several years that I'm not the kind of person who's interested in preserving language. I love how it changes. I'm not afraid of textspeak, I'm not afraid of abbreviations. I think we just wind up doing more fun things with how language appears. Twerking! We're twerking our language.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rabih-alameddine daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1605882613511-KE16W3W0WOS5EBETT03O/Z30Y2036.jpeg Rabih Alameddine - Rabih Alameddine (c) Benito Ordoñez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/95a3bfb0-465b-406f-a967-abc516322bc3/Z30Y2036.jpeg Rabih Alameddine - Rabih Alameddine “A book is never finished, really, until someone reads it. But a book is also not a writer's work alone; it's a combination of the reader and writer. And each reader has a completely different interpretation of a book...it's a communication between two solitudes.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ru-freeman daily 0.75 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1609089980993-3VLIVNNY8ZEFJHXLFCF8/Ru-Photo4.jpg Ru Freeman - Ru Freeman (c) João Carlos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5799fa8a-0302-437c-9d61-c7479b3545ab/58a30cc3c58942d0ceb3c01ce039c98e.jpeg Ru Freeman - Ru Freeman “I’m always looking for the thing that connects people; in fiction, that’s my goal. I’m very interested in making the fiction stand in a way that allows people to see that yes, it happened in Sri Lanka, but it’s not only about Sri Lanka: it’s about the way we go to war, it’s about how increments lead to huge social changes that are really destructive, it’s about how politics affects ordinary people.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor daily 0.75 2023-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1632882052212-2XN7JUS6M0KVPCONNU1F/keeanga_orig.jpg Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (c) MacArthur Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e6ca0813-d744-495b-bf20-01cb2c983f92/keeanga_orig.jpg Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “I think that riots, rebellions, uprisings are not demonstrations. This is a visceral expression of rage and frustration. And what we have to do is understand why it's happening and do something about the conditions that led to its eruption because it's too late to say, oh, is this a good thing or is this bad thing? People are on the streets, and they're angry, and they have a right to be angry. And so the response is, what are we going to do about the conditions that create this level of rage?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kirstin-valdez-quade daily 0.75 2025-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1610210712006-439C16032XN54TL9MHA0/201129_Kirstin+Valdez+Quade_Andres_52_Final.jpg Kirstin Valdez Quade - Kirstin Valdez Quade (c) Holly Andres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/fdaa6a42-9851-49c9-b784-4c8bfa87e00c/201129_Kirstin+Valdez+Quade_Andres_52_Final.jpg Kirstin Valdez Quade - Kirstin Valdez Quade “What fuels my fiction is uncertainty, and not understanding things. I’m writing into uncertainty. That’s where the energy comes from.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sumita-chakraborty daily 0.75 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1611414590582-EYL658KC1DKZYO5DT10U/BioPic_4+%281%29.jpeg Sumita Chakraborty - Sumita Chakraborty (c) Ashley Chupp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1622217585174-2BQSTV9SM3Q5W41KC65Z/sumita.jpg Sumita Chakraborty - Sumita Chakraborty “It inspires and excites me to think of how there will always be more to know and more to do than I will ever have known or ever have done. It motivates me to try new things–to always be starting out on something.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lucy-corin daily 0.75 2025-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1628882683943-7GZOE363PN05017MQ9S4/Corin-081square.jpg Lucy Corin - Lucy Corin (c) Jessica Eve Rattner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/ff6f2564-49ac-4d24-bcdc-be1a682f4941/*color+teal+3016_high+res_crop_2x3.jpg Lucy Corin - Lucy Corin “I do think my work is political. It’s not polemical, it’s not prescriptive, it’s political in the sense that the choices of what it witnesses and records are made consciously. I try to own where I’m standing.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/maria-dahvana-headley daily 0.75 2024-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1616427999177-CY2BATPDUEB7D1CNPGIA/Headley%2C+Maria+Dahvana+credit+-+Beowulf+Sheehan+%281%29.jpg Maria Dhavana Headley - Maria Dahvana Headley (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1645715776359-L81E2PKGYWX5P6V5MJZR/Headley%252C%252BMaria%252BDahvana%252Bcredit%252B-%252BBeowulf%252BSheehan%252B%25281%2529.jpg Maria Dhavana Headley - Maria Dahvana Headley “I’m deeply interested in the way we’ve used hero myths to construct political narratives, and the ways we’ve used them to justify violence and injustice against “others” whomever the others may be.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/philip-metres daily 0.75 2025-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1618159458357-5ITVDK5GF7CP5DMBQ488/Philip+Metres+2018+headshot+Heidi+Rolf.jpg Philip Metres - Philip Metres (c) Heidi Rolf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1618160567899-D9VMUMLWPAHO3WCLW2VG/Philip+Metres+2018+headshot+Heidi+Rolf.jpg Philip Metres - Philip Metres “Poetry, for me, has been my primary technology of imagination, of investigation, of trying to see people and places and realities that reside beneath these grim projections. I don't have any evidence that poetry is inherently more capable of slaying these mythological chimerae than any other artistic or truth-seeking practice, but it's the mode that has chosen me. I admire poems that demonstrate a commitment to listening, to precision, to the notion that a single voice is worthy of our complete attention. When poetry abides in these ways, it can be an antidote to racism. To all the isms.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sandra-lim daily 0.75 2024-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1619104186018-8SYAOLWPJXGYTG711DDG/SLIM_photo_Young+Suh.jpg Sandra Lim - Sandra Lim (c) Young Suh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/4883bdf7-f8e8-4282-80fa-ed862d63795f/SLIM_photo_Young+Suh.jpg Sandra Lim - Sandra Lim “A challenge for every writer, I imagine, is to understand that real exploration involves real risk; it can be scary and exhilarating even to discover unexpected aspects of one’s own sensibility in writing a poem.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kazim-ali daily 0.75 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1619550916146-3DD8QUFZFJ4ZUCX31LY1/Kazim_June12_2020-66.jpg Kazim Ali - Kazim Ali (c) Jesse Sutton-Hough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1619552550288-6LHR7CFA5H8I5RMN7CKI/Kazim_June12_2020-66.jpg Kazim Ali - Kazim Ali “When artists think of “failure,” they may think of a work that hasn’t realized itself or a work that didn’t go far in the world. Poets just live with “failure” because no poem realizes itself, no poem goes all that very far in the world, except maybe one or two—and even those only go a certain way. Our bodies fail, the planets fail, death wants us. For me, poetry and dance are other ways the body can breathe more deeply.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/stephen-kuusisto daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1619970146958-T0TMISWMBOOI0V9EQ1Y4/B6F841AB-CE1D-4827-9E48-1A108623F04C.jpeg Stephen Kuusisto - Stephen Kuusisto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e88313a3-8693-4182-9b5d-ccb72b18721c/B6F841AB-CE1D-4827-9E48-1A108623F04C.jpeg Stephen Kuusisto - Stephen Kuusisto “Disability has long been defined in terms of illness. This medical model for disabled people overlooks the very real attitudinal barriers in society that are in reality the driving force behind handicapping people who have physical impairments. Are you disabled by the physical problem or the social one? In my lifetime the drama has moved from the medical model for accepting disability toward a broader consideration that the culture may be the biggest barrier faced by a disabled person.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/tao-leigh-goffe daily 0.75 2024-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1705446319036-NEGCDA4FRN7CJQRTLUGF/Tao+Leigh+Goffe_Headshot.jpg Tao Leigh Goffe - Tao Leigh Goffe (c) Tao Leigh Goffe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c0440b19-a2b9-4805-b4cb-94b2dc247610/Tao+Leigh+Goffe+-+headshot+2.png Tao Leigh Goffe - Tao Leigh Goffe “When you think about Africa and Asia, and diaspora, and identity formation and who participates in the different cultures that come out of those histories and experiences — that’s a conversation we should all be having about the intimacy of globalization. It doesn’t have to exclude anyone. It’s really about inclusiveness.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/arisa-white daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1624556499778-N5QE5JS60R0RT65PTFHQ/Arisa+White-IMG_3880-Large.jpg Arisa White - Arisa White (c) Nye’ Lynn Tho https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/8546d2a4-f7fc-4480-bb55-27c7d5009403/Arisa+White-IMG_3880-Large.jpg Arisa White - Arisa White “Once you pay attention to a word and its resonances, everything starts glimmering.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/vievee-francis daily 0.75 2024-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1627141732389-YNS7MSSDOBXNKS391WL1/Vivee-Francis+%282%29.jpeg Vievee Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1726244852660-0GFTR9VXTCHUXRJRDLTR/20201019_180009.jpg Vievee Francis - Vievee Francis (c) Matthew Olzmann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0469cf5d-b2c8-442e-bafe-7e2153e0444b/Vievee+new+photo_+April+2024.jpg Vievee Francis - Vievee Francis “Sometimes, one’s life depends upon the telling. To write is to speak, to give textual voice to, and I have found that when I speak up, just as I often find inspiration to speak through what others have said or written, I may inspire others to do the same.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/fatima-bhutto daily 0.75 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1628020160600-2VM50C5AKI9QIX7AKVV1/1B1CEE1F-2535-40AB-87EC-D2A9B9B1980C.jpeg Fatima Bhutto - Fatima Bhutto (c) Allegra Donn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/35aabf7f-b442-4591-8219-962ca4ddf5ae/1B1CEE1F-2535-40AB-87EC-D2A9B9B1980C.jpeg Fatima Bhutto - Fatima Bhutto “When I’m writing fiction, I’m obsessed by an idea that is mine and mine alone – no one needs to know what I’m thinking about and what I’m doing because I need concentration, solitude, and focus in order to fully imagine the world that I’m creating. Non-fiction is less secretive and more collaborative because you need to go out and speak to people and dig out information. It requires you to test your idea out constantly.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaver daily 0.75 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1629145095602-WRYSFTIJG5A3032HHBH1/AfaaMichaelWeaver_NewBioImage2015-RachelElizaGriffiths.png Afaa Michael Weaver - Afaa Michael Weaver (c) Rachel Eliza Griffiths https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1629146129613-GDK5PK39EACRCSLW0DJX/AfaaMichaelWeaver_NewBioImage2015-RachelElizaGriffiths.png Afaa Michael Weaver - Afaa Michael Weaver “I have always seen myself as having been born with the gift to write and not someone who had to try to learn to write poetry as one learns a vocation. I do not see my gift as dependent on my childhood trauma, however. That trauma has presented challenges to developing my gift, but the gift is not contingent upon trauma.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/elaine-castillo daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1738345730675-EGO0RY4OKD5PNGNTWLQQ/IMG_9439.JPG Elaine Castillo - Elaine Castillo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/cefff275-5cee-4af3-b885-1b55a0d84177/IMG_3310.jpeg Elaine Castillo - Elaine Castillo “How do we hold ourselves accountable—the root of the word accountable meaning: how do we let the story of ourselves be told? How do we hold ourselves accountable to the things we’ve received and internalized: the knowledges and unknowledges, the narratives, silences, and violences, the particularities? To hold ourselves accountable—to truly hold ourselves, within the depth and vastness of our stories, and remain there, in their thrumming inconsolability—means that in our art, we bring to bear not our most powerful, authoritative, intelligent selves, but: our most particular, our most precarious, our most dependent selves.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/adam-dalva daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1633196936411-NZNF1M8HMLUIPOCBUX0F/AdamDalva080321_129BeowulfSheehan.jpg Adam Dalva - Adam Dalva (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1633197282318-B1XIX2AN6SL5DZ3XEW7E/AdamDalva080321_129BeowulfSheehan.jpg Adam Dalva - Adam Dalva “The goal is to feel, every day, that I get to write—criticism, non-fiction, graphic novels. And always fiction, which is a wonderfully imperfect medium. Eventually, my characters start to move on their own: the stuff of fireside sparks. I've created systems and routines that allow me to write with no critics, no other writers, no readers in my head. And when I’m really writing, I can’t even hear my own voice.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/yanyi daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1633207051028-WR7MY706BBX8WJ0P1YEN/Yanyi_CreditYanyi_02.jpg Yanyi - Yanyi (c) Yanyi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/28037f74-8bbb-4ebe-954d-faedbaff137c/Yanyi_CreditYanyi_02_1x1.jpg Yanyi - Yanyi “I hope to live in a world where I only represent myself. Unfortunately, relations of power are not only foisted upon me, but all of us. It is up to all of us to respond and relate more imaginatively.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/diana-khoi-nguyen daily 0.75 2024-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1692104970785-JK2RTXPT1GHHED067QRN/Nguyen.jpeg Diana Khoi Nguyen - Diana Khoi Nguyen (c) Karen Lue https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/08eb050c-6832-4bb7-9a52-0b857913b032/Nguyen23-2.png Diana Khoi Nguyen - Diana Khoi Nguyen “Sometimes I think I know what’s going to happen in a poem because I have some awareness of what’s going on in my own mind at the moment. But when I start to work on a poem, the poem shows me otherwise—I didn’t and don’t know anything at all.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/franny-choi daily 0.75 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1635107553190-E34MGJPG7QBP8LAELNLW/FC+-+credit+Jasmine+Durhal.jpg Franny Choi - Franny Choi (c) Jasmine Durhal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/529d7308-e181-4f2c-9460-999d7a586fd0/FC+-+credit+Jasmine+Durhal.jpg Franny Choi - Franny Choi “Poetry helps me to have a conversation with history. It’s hard for me to understand the past as a series of events. Poetry allows me to understand history by embodying it from my own subjective position and to track the ways that those imprints of the past show up in my sentences.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/natalie-scenters-zapico daily 0.75 2026-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1636907263109-AWSIIBOGHZYBUQCUJNTD/Natalie-Scenters-Zapico-by-John-Markadakis.jpg Natalie Scenters Zapico - Natalie Scenters-Zapico (c) John Markadakis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/cd70ae56-14a4-4df1-87f6-dc941b0c278d/Natalie-Scenters-Zapico-by-John-Markadakis.jpg Natalie Scenters Zapico - Natalie Scenters-Zapico “I’ve never once planned a poem, to be honest, because it’s so fun to go with it, so fun to have it take you places. And it’s so associative in my mind, too. You use one word and it immediately leads me into another, and I love following that train of thought.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/courtney-zoffness daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1636922498297-JLYJ0P6HO28A0T3FHYLU/Zoffness_Headshot_HC.jpg Courtney Zoffness - Courtney Zoffness (c) Hannah Cohen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2d720798-44c2-49e5-9d4d-edb5a507dd32/Zoffness_Headshot_HC.jpg Courtney Zoffness - Courtney Zoffness “I think there’s a lot of value in looking back and looking hard at mishaps. Not to the point of immobility, but I think there’s a tremendous amount of importance in looking back to look forward.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/desiree-c-bailey daily 0.75 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1637012076010-JMJDN6W1A3759RNQFULJ/DesireeCBaileyHeadshot_CreditWiltonSchereka.jpg Desiree C. Bailey - Desiree C. Bailey (c) Wilton Schereka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1638294522476-6NZISRX32VHTI5IDBELB/DesireeCBaileyHeadshot_CreditWiltonSchereka+%281%29.jpeg Desiree C. Bailey - Desiree C. Bailey “Intersectionality is important to my artistic and social spaces because I want to be in spaces where everyone is seen and heard, where there is an understanding of interconnectedness and ubuntu, that I am because you are. I want to be free. I want to write free. I can’t be free if we all are not free.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/joanna-rakoff daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1638737388220-G0K1MG6BXD0FSWX6KTVJ/image0.jpeg Joanna Rakoff - Joanna Rakoff (c) Mark Ostow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/b9ca05c7-c9fa-461e-aa02-8a94a378aeec/image0-2.jpeg Joanna Rakoff - Joanna Rakoff “With time, I realized there was something universal here, that it was a story larger than just my own. I realized a memoir doesn’t have to be about a grand person reflecting on their life, or about an enormous trauma. It can be about small moments and be shaped like a novel.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/zaina-arafat daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1639945218402-38HZNBGHOTRPT2RVOR45/zaina.jpeg Zaina Arafat - Zaina Arafat (c) Carleen Coulter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1639945790999-OXI164V60BP9HBVMEVR2/zaina.jpeg Zaina Arafat - Zaina Arafat “Being in between cultures and identities can be alienating, as you often feel you belong to neither of the two. At the same time, it gives you a unique perspective, the view from the in-between, and allows you to bring your encounters and observations from one realm to the other, enriching your experience in each.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/mary-gaitskill daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1640039186529-QEYLS79O31PXVHN86EOH/Mary%2C+60.jpg Mary Gaitskill - Mary Gaitskill (c) Derek Shapton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e5b985fc-0f1b-4b1c-92d8-bf5ee57cfd52/Mary%2C+60.jpg Mary Gaitskill - Mary Gaitskill “I get very disturbed when I feel something is being presented in an overly broad way. I have a nuanced mind, for better and worse.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/cameron-awkwardrich daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1640198733957-N79CBGPL0X5CDQYA1EKD/IMG_2081.jpg Cameron Awkward-Rich - Cameron Awkward-Rich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/8e31f345-8348-41f4-b529-f918631cc610/IMG_2081.jpg Cameron Awkward-Rich - Cameron Awkward-Rich “No one writer, simply by being a writer, has any more insight into the question of what the world is and how to live in it than does a mother, a teacher, a chemist, a bowerbird. But taken collectively, these people who attend lovingly to the world, to what makes up the world—the self and other selves; language, the way it moves and cages us and fails to; imagination and its failures; architecture, material and otherwise; the aliveness of things; to what and how writers before them paid attention; and, yes, even flowers—who pay attention and compulsively record and communicate what they find—if this is what writers do, how could they not, inadvertently, provide us with the most adequate map of the territory?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/isle-mcelroy daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1674247319098-107T0YIOEXMSZHE9ISS6/McElroy+Author+Photo_%28c%29+Grace+Rivera+%282%29.jpg Isle McElroy - Isle McElroy (c) Jih-E Peng https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1674247386357-E8DWXVGYU2UVT86K616O/Isle+McElroyHeadshot_Events.jpg Isle McElroy - Isle McElroy “Perhaps the artist’s impulse to tell the truth is what makes art so undervalued in America. Good art and good literature, I believe, asks us to confront who we truly are.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/hugh-ryan daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1642449301278-V5YBGQDUHQ11YC5T1AL6/_mg_6588.jpg Hugh Ryan - Hugh Ryan (c) M. Sharkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/7a9b8549-de9e-4062-b438-eb6bd6fc3706/_mg_6588.jpg Hugh Ryan - Hugh Ryan “It is often assumed that the history of American sexuality is one of linear progress, moving from a time of benighted homophobia to our present-day enlightenment. However, the further back one looks, the more it seems to be a story of incoherence before intolerance, of ‘not knowing’ before ‘not accepting.’” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/greg-mania daily 0.75 2025-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1729624526664-STR4KSLXQFES99PTQNYQ/Author+photo+Pete+San+Pedro.jpg Greg Mania - Greg Mania © Aaron Jay Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6d40f3c4-7de0-4533-b641-3d307ce58218/GM+alt.jpg Greg Mania - Greg Mania “Identity is messy; it changes paths, it picks up things along the way, and then sometimes ejects those things as it goes on. Isn’t that what growing up is, what personhood in general is? Aren’t we all just little tornadoes following a path that is unpredictable, picking things up along the way, and, if and when we outgrow them, hurl them directly onto the roof of a library 30 miles away?” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/joe-osmundson daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1644778599686-T4POI05J624O5VSFBF3H/Joe1.jpg Joe Osmundson - Joseph Osmundson (c) Ted Ely https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e78634cb-5b15-41c8-8a10-bbb7c203b504/Joe1.jpg Joe Osmundson - Joseph Osmundson “Showing queer bodies and what we do with them is both personal and political to me. Queer bodies were so sanitized in the quest for gay rights. We were made politically palatable. And that meant we weren’t supposed to be sexual in public. Well, human beings are often sexual, and I have no interest in cleaving that portion of myself off.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jonathan-escoffery daily 0.75 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1761051190482-0KMJ3PF58O6QW013CIRG/IMG_7928.jpg Jonathan Escoffery - Jonathan Escoffery © Jesse Dittmar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/11be5430-01ae-4fbe-8729-a16e941eaec1/zbw_Jonathan_372.jpg Jonathan Escoffery - Jonathan Escoffery “I think great art often helps us examine our assumptions and that even if, ultimately, such examinations lead us back to our original, often imperfect conclusions, stories can operate as proofs for how we arrive there, which can bring us to a greater place of empathy and understanding.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jos-charles daily 0.75 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1646584802358-BES4TZV2XGGDXRJ2F1QX/JosCharlesbySergioDeLaTorre_crop+%281%29.png Jos Charles - Jos Charles (c) Sergio De La Torre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/bd22449a-5e17-450b-85d5-9c9046a386aa/JosCharlesbySergioDeLaTorre_crop.png Jos Charles - Jos Charles “There are other ways to order the world than what the rules of a language may allow.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kavita-das daily 0.75 2023-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1648910173728-VH6AMUYKS61P7NCCC7X1/lrvc8k+%281%29.jpg Kavita Das https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1672154907430-AOS4E3GPALVC6ZQC96BX/Kavita%2BDas%2BAuthor%2BPhoto%2B1%2BHR%2B.jpeg Kavita Das - KAVITA DAS “Deeply affecting writing brings about personal transformation through subtle shifts in awareness, perspective, and empathy. When writing about social issues is effective, it has the power to spark a personal transformation that feeds into collective social and cultural transformation.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lacy-johnson daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1649605562619-SUQSTYPSORQXBT36R9H4/author+photo.jpg Lacy Johnson - Lacy M. Johnson (c) John Carrithers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/fc0bd5db-2f29-4901-8b98-7212f391b863/author+photo.jpg Lacy Johnson - Lacy M. Johnson “One of the reasons that I dislike the impulse to tie things up in a neat little bow and to find an answer for the questions that I’m asking in these essays, is because I’m hoping to show that none of these journeys are done, and that I end in a different place from where I began—I will continue to change and grow, and my thinking will evolve.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/megan-milks daily 0.75 2026-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1676905407523-UN73WOY49JPQJ5R1ULOK/5+-seated+smiling.JPG Megan Milks - Megan Milks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/a2a011d2-f1fe-4c83-a272-210e94e36ae9/5+-seated+smiling.JPG Megan Milks - Megan Milks “Why am I obsessed with these adolescent genres? Honestly, they are just so deeply ingrained in my DNA as a reader and writer, and are an important part of my canon of formative texts. But there’s something about gender and sexuality here, too, because so many of these texts imagine as their reader a cisgender, heterosexual girl who is most likely white and middle class. I was and was not that girl.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/paul-tran daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1653768237035-WD9H8Y3NP04BM64DXKF7/paul+t.jpeg Paul Tran https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/b34261b9-3689-4281-913c-34399e9d3442/Paula%2B1%2Bcopy.jpg Paul Tran - Paul Tran “When I first started writing this book, that question, “Why do people do what they do to others?” animated so much of my curiosity, but I learned the hard way that I can’t actually presume what’s in the heart of another. I can only map my own interiority onto the page.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/maurice-carlos-ruffin daily 0.75 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1655059734167-M5YYSDMHH7CFO9LB274A/Maurice+Carlos+Ruffin+-+Hollywood+%281%29.png Maurice Carlos Ruffin - Maurice Carlos Ruffin (c) Vaughn D. Taylor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1677013902945-ADAIBPF6DKAGSULL434M/Maurice%2BCarlos%2BRuffin%2B-%2BHollywood%2B%281%29+%282%29.png Maurice Carlos Ruffin - Maurice Carlos Ruffin “My books are made to show the complexity of my community. I’m making my claim to show our stories in the truest light possible.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/denne-michele-norris daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1734481274312-J4NDDSMLTAA6LV3EFSCS/CD184548-FEB0-438E-9398-3CE8B20DBD8F.jpeg Denne Michele Norris - Denne Michele Norris © Nicholas Nichols https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9cd34e25-f55d-4c4b-833f-b6e83e361a43/IMG_0879.jpeg Denne Michele Norris - Denne Michele Norris “If there's one thing we've learned in the last year and a half, it's that reimagination is what pushes us forward culturally, and the last thing we need is to be in stasis.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sam-sax daily 0.75 2024-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1658081391115-48WZVVEDJW2V0B0S6UMQ/image0+%282%29.jpeg Sam Sax - Sam Sax (c) Hollis Rafkin-Sax https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/52eafda6-f509-4c8e-8466-0dc14601bc22/image0-3.jpeg Sam Sax - Sam Sax “My work instead revels in estrangement, in the strange; it wants to live in what’s queer about being Jewish.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/joseph-keckler daily 0.75 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1658677626530-RK5HI3YPPSS4PXW8OD47/Michael+Sharkey+_MG_8747+%282%29.jpg Joseph Keckler - Joseph Keckler (c) Michael Sharkey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/7681f76b-4ad4-4735-8c9b-b69b0cfdcf62/Michael+Sharkey+_MG_8747+%282%29.jpg Joseph Keckler - Joseph Keckler “I want to envision myself as some sort of living instrument of observation.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/mariehelene-bertino daily 0.75 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1659296256485-EJY09RQ30FRU55401P36/BertinoPhoto1+%281%29.jpg Marie-Helene Bertino - Marie-Helene Bertino (c) Sioux Nesi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1669831437587-PQO0H54PF8YJ4L9K0XXU/BertinoPhoto1+%282%29.jpg Marie-Helene Bertino - Marie-Helene Bertino “Hopefully that’s what fiction does—inhabits a character you would think you’d hate, and by the end you feel you know them. What fiction can do is show you a world you don’t know, a character whose experience you don’t get, and challenge your expectations of what that person can be.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/tom-perrotta daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1668360751226-DQGNUD4T5R785FJEYYN8/TomPerrotta092321_395fullBeowulfSheehan.jpg Tom Perrotta - Tom Perrotta (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2be8ec91-73c0-46de-954f-7bba1654d6a8/TomPerrotta092321_395fullBeowulfSheehan.jpg Tom Perrotta - Tom Perrotta “I don’t want to write something that scares people away or makes them think, I didn’t go to college, so I won’t be able to understand this. To the extent that literature can actually be part of a cultural conversation right now, I’d like that conversation to be as inclusive as possible.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rio-cortez daily 0.75 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1674315577090-1ODBMYYB1AG1JQAR9O06/Rio+dot+headshot+direct.jpg Rio Cortez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1674318701591-B3PVBO5FNU330HE1NBVK/Rio+dot+headshot+direct.jpg Rio Cortez - Rio Cortez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1676064214779-NGO79EKEAHQC3OGTI3YK/Rio+dot+headshot+direct+%281%29.jpg Rio Cortez - Rio Cortez “I think frontier and future—these places that aren't here, places that are somewhere else, somewhere where you're not subjugated, where there's maximum freedom—are extremely compelling to people who have come from a history of enslavement.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/anna-badkhen daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1675519559822-IRFABK0N83JFUTKGKK40/1028170002AnnaBadkhenSM.JPG Anna Badkhen - Anna Badkhen (c) Kael Alford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1677006437960-U3VL2KBPBX6PVM189UT4/1028170002AnnaBadkhenSM.jpeg Anna Badkhen - Anna Badkhen “Every single iniquity in the world is committed out of a failure of love, as (writer J.M.) Coetzee put it. The inability to love thinking that’s not like yours, to love a culture that’s not like yours, to love people who you think are not like you. It all comes down to feeling, to love beyond your own reflection. It all comes down to feeling.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ruth-franklin daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1771954861589-2CMFA2KMFZ7W6EBJICF6/RF+headshot.jpeg Ruth Franklin - Ruth Franklin © Anthony DelMundo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/b56c35f8-60d8-42f5-87c0-d938a9d6217e/Yale+color.jpeg Ruth Franklin - Ruth Franklin “Now more than ever, I think the critic’s role is to suss out books and authors who aren’t being given the attention they deserve and make a case for their importance, rather than to codify canons or reaffirm popular taste. As the publishing world is becoming more centralized and conservative, it’s the responsibility of critics to push back: to reject the same-old “Great American Novels” dressed up in new guises and seek out what’s new and exciting.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/edgar-kunz daily 0.75 2024-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1676212651343-BHBLBWF9ER6AKMPT5KVJ/Outtakes_EK-8360.jpg Edgar Kunz - Edgar Kunz (c) Ariana Mygatt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9be9fdb2-351d-45ca-b20e-47fcd36c3358/Outtakes_EK-8360.jpg Edgar Kunz - Edgar Kunz “I think most artists feel estranged from the world: it’s this distance that allows the world to come into focus. For me, writing poems is an attempt to see clearly, to make connections in a reality that often seems totally incoherent. The poems reach toward meaning, and they mostly don’t find it.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kath daily 0.75 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1676930390079-AYNM97FJC48M1GBJH2CN/Author%27s+photo+%231.jpg Katherine Vaz - Katherine Vaz (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/f16d826f-0127-4715-86ca-7de263bf1943/Author%27s+photo+%231.jpg Katherine Vaz - Katherine Vaz “I don’t think you ever get to a point where you know how to write, because each new piece is going to teach you something that you need to learn.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/hilary-leichter daily 0.75 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1710939607908-C819PVB2VBA4V7XWDSBD/Hilary+Leichter+author+portraits_11_websize.jpg Hilary Leichter - Hilary Leichter (c) Sylvie Rosokoff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/f4ae8813-1129-47ef-b97e-dc8de3db31b5/highresHilary_Leichter_2023_portraits_4+%281%29.jpg Hilary Leichter - Hilary Leichter “I don’t know if you can have true comedy and true absurdism without real life-and-death tragedy… I think when you’re talking about mortality, everything is hilarious. Human existence is a comedy, because it ends.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore daily 0.75 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1678053939851-ERMQEB8VSTC1I1A821XS/Mattilda+Bernstein+Sycamore+author+photo+by+Jesse+Mann.jpg Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (c) Jesse Mann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6d6eee9a-37a8-44bb-89d0-1b9791bf4663/Mattilda+Bernstein+Sycamore+author+photo+by+Jesse+Mann.jpg Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore “That’s what I like about language, about playing with language. I’m playing with repetition. I’m playing with sound and the texture of language and what meaning you can create from sensation and from experience and from cadence and from emphasis. Because meaning is not only what we impose or what we imagine. Meaning is what happens anyway.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/cara-blue-adams daily 0.75 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1679168748285-AWG0CH3G4EMLR579GH4F/Cara+Blue+Adams+photo+by+Roque+Nonini.JPG Cara Blue Adams - Cara Blue Adams (c) Roque Nonini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/038a260b-72de-4932-ac80-ec880c6aaafa/Cara+Blue+Adams+photo+by+Roque+Nonini.jpg Cara Blue Adams - CARA BLUE ADAMS “Those moments of joy or beauty, I want to record them and get them down. The moments of confusion or pain I want to capture precisely, too, because they also feel like a crucial part of being alive. Longing, or missing something and wanting to spend time with it again in my mind is certainly a reason that I write, but I'm not sure that I can pin it down.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/laura-warrell daily 0.75 2023-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1679253563423-44CKT4AQVK85ZZS8ZYCB/LAURA+1+THE+pic+copy.jpg Laura Warrell - Laura Warrell (c) Rachael Warecki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/32546be1-acdc-4cab-a36b-afaecae46ba2/LAURA+1+THE+pic+copy.jpg Laura Warrell - Laura Warrell “It can be excruciating to live with uncertainty and, by creating stories, we can make sense of the nonsensical. We can decide how to act. We can move forward.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/john-manuel-arias daily 0.75 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1679771330872-7KS3LJ9MLP52OBK9T7XR/image0+%287%29.jpeg John Manuel Arias - John Manuel Arias (c) Nicholas Nichols https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/455a9e0b-f0fc-4877-a789-eef5ee526923/image0.jpeg John Manuel Arias - John Manuel Arias “You can read all my work as odes to those who I love. Those who I’ve met, and those I haven’t. My family’s ghosts, my own who sit at the end of my bed, uncharacteristically kind.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rasheed-newson daily 0.75 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1682273448641-I0D4HTMTO8FEQDU77TNL/Ra_08.jpg Rasheed Newson - Rasheed Newson (c) Christopher Marrs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6695cb2c-c243-473a-add4-3083a1b84241/Ra_08.jpg Rasheed Newson - Rasheed Newson My work tends to examine stories from an outsider’s point of view. I like to question the assumptions and values of the dominant class, and I am not eager to adopt their ways. I believe there is beauty and currency in how marginalized groups thrive. I want to be met on my own terms. All of that resilience, sass, and creativity were instilled in me as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. https://www.theshipmanagency.com/michael-zapata daily 0.75 2025-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1685208454480-Y317NB3HMK1LFJWQ4044/mzapata-77_color+copy+%281%29.jpg Michael Zapata - Michael Zapata (c) Organic Headshots/Michelle Kaffko. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/094d8119-a2e8-4e30-827c-409556b70343/mzapata-77_color+copy+%281%29.jpg Michael Zapata - Michael Zapata “From national teacher strikes, to cacerolazo protests in Chile, to indigenous struggles against austerity and Amazon oil extraction in Ecuador, I can’t help but think that every movement for social change starts both with the inequitable material conditions that created it and also a narrative of how the past and future collide with the present. The novel, with all its vast interiority and universe-bending possibility, is vital to that.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jess-row daily 0.75 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1685299026515-E8X0BO6TZPNPIXYFHQYW/JessRow061422_253BeowulfSheehan.jpg Jess Row - Jess Row (c) Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5d680c84-1032-4e02-a4c1-b8d981dbb73c/JessRow061422_253BeowulfSheehan.jpg Jess Row - Jess Row “Being a writer certainly does involve a certain level of commitment and passion, but it also requires detachment. You have to be able to approach your work with a certain distance in order to see it whole, just as you have to be able to step back from a given situation and appreciate the larger pattern that created it. You also have to be somewhat insulated from the emotional duress that comes along with being a writer.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ishion-hutchinson daily 0.75 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1685733618124-EBXTSTYJTKKPEPGLKMFU/Ishion+Hutchinson+Marco+Brunelli+and+Johanne+Affricot+%281%29.JPG Ishion Hutchinson - Ishion Hutchinson (c) Marco Brunelli and Johanne Affricot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/0e082b1b-59b7-4efa-bd6c-fb4d984c9048/Ishion+Hutchinson+Marco+Brunelli+and+Johanne+Affricot+%281%29.JPG Ishion Hutchinson - Ishion Hutchinson “I wouldn’t say I had or have an affinity for poetry—it confounded me, plagued me, yet I felt enlarged by it, for it widened the presence of all I knew and didn’t. It was love, simply, love that you have to approach the same way Faulkner said you have to approach Joyce’s Ulysses like the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar daily 0.75 2023-06-15 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/9/craft-seminar-writing-about-climate-change-with-fatima-bhutto-7t4m8 monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/9/craft-seminar-writing-about-climate-change-with-fatima-bhutto monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/5/workshop-building-your-platform-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-brand-with-an-xiao-mina-fdpre monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/5/workshop-building-your-platform-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-brand-with-an-xiao-mina-f32np-dwnr2 monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/5/workshop-building-your-platform-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-brand-with-an-xiao-mina-f32np monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/calendar/2023/6/5/workshop-building-your-platform-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-brand-with-an-xiao-mina monthly 0.5 2023-06-06 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/megan-kamalei-kakimoto daily 0.75 2023-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1697397663904-DIFJN0WG3HKSKN4T8C0Q/%28small%29+Kakimoto%2C+Megan.jpeg Megan Kamalei Kakimoto - Megan Kamalei Kakimoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/da9a255b-df3a-4f8b-ac25-5d07b16a86a4/%28small%29+Kakimoto%2C+Megan.jpeg Megan Kamalei Kakimoto - Megan Kamalei Kakimoto “My hope is for readers to see that kānaka ʻōiwi and hapa characters deserve to take up space in contemporary literature, and for these characters and their stories to live in readers’ minds long after the collection ends. For my kānaka maoli and hapa readers, ultimately the biggest honor I can hope for is that in the reading of these stories, they feel seen.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/minna-dubin daily 0.75 2024-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1698004342084-U11MEOVE059OTVSR5KON/2021_Minna_MSPhotography-33.jpg Minna Dubin - Minna Dubin (c) Morgan Shidler Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6f6fb668-7f86-4007-92ec-23e000e99ade/2021_Minna_MSPhotography-33.jpg Minna Dubin - Minna Dubin “Mothers all over the globe are experiencing rage, and that’s because of a variety of social factors that oppress mothers, like patriarchy and capitalism, which exist globally. But America’s refusal to implement proper mothercare policy is so egregious that it causes rage to be more rampant here.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kristi-coulter daily 0.75 2023-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1701630578447-Z4CXYNVMNYMFIPE8T3IM/IMG_6027.jpg Kristi Coulter - Kristi Coulter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/bd95e86d-1fb4-453e-989e-52c096b0168a/IMG_6027.jpg Kristi Coulter - Kristi Coulter “I wanted to write about ambition in women through myself. I’m very ambitious—I always have been. When we hear that women are ambitious, we have certain associations, so I thought, well, let’s look at that. Does it mean I was cutthroat? Probably sometimes. Is there something wrong with it? Maybe. Does it mean I put up with shit I wouldn’t have otherwise? Yeah! I wanted to write about ambition as a human emotion that women have, just like men.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/claire-dederer daily 0.75 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1702224542673-7IXNVYNXR6J4J0E97XM7/2301001__0216_BW.jpg Claire Dederer - Claire Dederer (c) Stanton J. Stephens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/09a2d0b7-fcfc-4ff0-be1c-b0061bf085a4/2301001__0216_BW.jpg Claire Dederer - Claire Dederer “I’ve always had this essential idea of my own unacceptability or badness, and motherhood was a place where I took refuge from that. But in writing I'm confronted with it over and over again. “ https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sonia-shah daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1704562347109-T7UXJ1W4NM13OWKCDN8C/sonia+shah+by+glenford+nun%CC%83ez+3+color+%281%29.jpg Sonia Shah - Sonia Shah (c) Glenford Nuñez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/55d11f87-4dca-4195-8e82-c417a173ddf0/sonia+shah+by+glenford+nun%CC%83ez+3+color+%281%29.jpg Sonia Shah - Sonia Shah “Migration is how we’ve adapted to environmental change in the past, and it’s how we can adapt in the future, too. It’s already happening all around us. Eighty percent of wild species are moving into new places in sync with the changing climate. People have been moving to higher ground and into higher latitudes. Those movements are driven by climate change and other emergencies, but the movement itself is not the crisis. It’s the solution. The sooner we embrace that reality, the better off we’ll be.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kyle-dillon-hertz daily 0.75 2024-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1705865979539-S9ERIUQR3T7UBLUSXSW6/IMG_6994.jpg Kyle Dillon Hertz - Kyle Dillon Hertz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/74b09de4-0de4-474a-8ce1-50e01081df1e/IMG_6994.jpg Kyle Dillon Hertz - Kyle Dillon Hertz “I am not an angry person, but I have learned that anger is my tool of freedom. Anger is the great tool of liberation when it is utilized in the same manner as love. I am so unbelievably angry at what happened to me, my friends, strangers, the people of this world, and I see no reason to pretend I am cool with any of it.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/david-masciotra daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1744829070799-QPTFE6CJ0LKSW96SJAU8/David+Masciotra+2023+J.JPG David Masciotra - David Masciotra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/3794a42b-aba2-4768-b158-62acfe80d064/David+Masciotra+4925.jpg David Masciotra - David Masciotra “The story of progress in the United States, as captured by the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the gay rights movement, the labor movement, the American Indian Movement, and the environmental movement, is the story of beleaguered and neglected people coalescing in the advancement of their own humanity against legal and state-sanctioned oppression.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/temim-fruchter daily 0.75 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1709414240755-H2P23EA8JNZMB94W6S3T/TemimFruchter+%28c%29+LeahJames.jpg Temim Fruchter - Temim Fruchter (c) Leah James https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5c58fec7-4c75-4d35-a6ba-447b3036d3da/TemimFruchter+%28c%29+LeahJames.jpg Temim Fruchter - Temim Fruchter “I also believe that synchronicities are everywhere and echoes are everywhere and for me at least, this is a function of a worldview that encompasses both queer possibility and the sort of Jewish mystical outlook I was raised with. Those things feel even more possible to play with in fiction.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/natalie-diaz daily 0.75 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1771873377090-9H85DRZL6PAHRG3BGE6X/maxresdefault.jpg Natalie Diaz - Natalie Diaz © Scott Baxter Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6addc7ed-16c5-4c7d-95c5-b7aff528ecf7/Natalie+Diaz_credit+Scott+Baxter+Photography.jpg Natalie Diaz - Natalie Diaz “My body is its own lexicon and I also fight for a language, in Mojave and English, that helps me to hold it in the space of love.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/andrew-leland daily 0.75 2024-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1711210000575-MRMII2K58HXNZP55PNQA/2211927.jpeg Andrew Leland - Andrew Leland (c) Gregory Halpern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9799f4ee-3cbc-4173-97b2-240fd5d1a55a/2211927.jpeg Andrew Leland - Andrew Leland “If we could remove the misperceptions people have about blindness—the image of it as a place of fear, claustrophobia, infantilization, and fundamental otherness—the landscape would begin to look very different. The two worlds would cease to feel so distinct, and their overlapping zones would grow. Ultimately, they’d have to yield and concede and share territory. The blind belong to our world, and we belong to theirs. It’s the same world.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/paul-lisicky daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1711302555616-JEB1IAEQE0NWCKK8FR21/Paul+20+radial+3.jpg Paul Lisicky - Paul Lisicky (c) Jude Theriot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/15b5fc89-55b4-4fa7-87a6-9ca0d7bd385a/Paul+20+radial+3.jpg Paul Lisicky - Paul Lisicky “Desire is something that can go out of control. I’ve always been really curious about that pivot, that edge, that thin line between the thing that makes us alive and the thing that just could take us asunder.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/chetla-sebree daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1711829744071-7T869FVCN9XL5FHK7RRP/Sebree_C.jpg Chet'la Sebree - Chet'la Sebree (c) Shannon Woodloe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/c0f3c313-cbeb-41f4-bdbb-70304ad59000/Sebree_C.jpg Chet'la Sebree - Chet’la Sebree “I think that the past really informs our present. I know that is a really common thing to say. But we can’t understand the way we move through the world now if we don’t understand how we got to be where we are.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/joseph-earl-thomas daily 0.75 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1712518481901-W2V31PV249EOG4TNDG96/Joseph+Thomas%2C+2023-14+%281%29+%285%29.jpg Joseph Earl Thomas - Joseph Earl Thomas (c) Marcus Jackson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e9595278-6044-41b5-84a4-b7eaff40ab9d/Joseph+Thomas%2C+2023-14+%281%29+%285%29.jpg Joseph Earl Thomas - Joseph Earl Thomas “Writing is a constant struggle with the given, the ideology of the day, the politics of power, the history of languages both distal and proximate. At best we might throw into relief the local process through which we make culture, and its myriad conflicts with what we call reality.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/christopher-cerf daily 0.75 2024-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1716233748106-BOFZ8LPU82MARXHGGEJW/CBC.Headshot.FromStreetGang.jpeg Christopher Cerf - Christopher Cerf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/998f2813-6fab-49e3-a4a0-0eb6b9352374/CBC.Headshot.FromStreetGang.jpeg Christopher Cerf - Christopher Cerf “I don’t want to compare myself with Monty Python because I think they’re geniuses, but what I love about them is that they combine childish nonsense with having to know a lot.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/tracie-mcmillan daily 0.75 2024-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1716826025467-MKM3LTJPA238TZPN7TM5/Tracie-McMillan_SM-5+%281%29.jpeg Tracie McMillan - Tracie McMillan (c) Sarah Rice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/08d15d36-8820-415a-88ef-60754a9c8d68/Tracie-McMillan_SM-5+%281%29.jpeg Tracie McMillan - Tracie McMillan “The white bonus is an estimate of the money white people get because of white supremacy. It’s a variation or a variant of white privilege, but it’s specific and concrete. I don’t think I would have much understanding of the scale, scope and depth of racism in my country if I hadn’t taken that perspective.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/annie-liontas daily 0.75 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1773681582813-1UBM8BRV92H9S2IH1L4U/Liontas-BW+Master.jpg Annie Liontas - D/Annie Liontas ©Mara Pliskin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/48192499-0460-48bb-b80d-56fba52d9f52/DANNIE+COAT+2025+BW.png Annie Liontas - D/Annie Liontas “So many people hear things like “It’s all in your head” from their doctors or even their loved ones. There’s truth to this, of course—the only places we have to live are in our bodies and our brains—but what these people often mean is that what we’re experiencing is “merely” anxiety, or “merely” depression. They believe, with the best intentions, that if we simply think about our pain differently, we’ll get better. The challenge with an invisible disability is that it perpetuates doubt—it can’t be seen and therefore can’t be perceived.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/justin-phillip-reed daily 0.75 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1717269998163-CK5AT2CCS1JIFJ7RF7CH/IMG_3436.jpg Justin Phillip Reed - Justin Phillip Reed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9fe0d00d-27ee-4b0e-bf81-a2e6f5036d62/IMG_3436.jpg Justin Phillip Reed - Justin Phillip Reed “Crisis, in a sense, refers to a decisive point in the progress of a disease. If I should say a poem functions "critically," I probably mean that it holds skin-splitting as an aspiration, foremost, that it means to leave a mess that is an opportunity to better know what I'm made of. I am self, "vain com-plexity," a reticent survival response to cohabitation anxiety and social stimuli. I look for poems to be rug-rufflers, to creep under that ivy of self.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kb-brookins daily 0.75 2024-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1717865222656-T04NIB078SODE2SJT1AO/01+%28photo+by+Mama+Duke%29+%281%29.JPG KB Brookins - KB Brookins (c) Mama Duke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d49fefe1-5c2a-462e-8b5f-6828e9d624ec/01+%28photo+by+Mama+Duke%29.JPG KB Brookins - KB Brookins “If I’m going to address a subject matter so large and also so mulled over as freedom, I have to bring in everything, right? And if I’m going to take it from a three-pronged lens of personal, interpersonal, systemic, I have to bring in all of the things that that might include. I’m talking about race. I’m also talking about gender and sexuality, because that’s my existence, right? We can’t really escape our context.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/maggie-millner daily 0.75 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1718560621493-KXHPX5P8ZD5WZ1FJQIDZ/Millner_photo.jpg Maggie Millner - Maggie Millner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2bd21b93-2136-4d95-992c-e8a23bae1e2d/Millner_photo.jpg Maggie Millner - Maggie Millner “Three is a more interesting number than two. There’s a romance to the love triangle. There’s an inherent asymmetry, a more volatile set of relationships. Our desires are most manifest when we’re being pulled in two directions, when there are disparate, orthogonal, or even oppositional forces inside us. Those are the moments when complex self-knowledge happens. The times when you have to prioritize multiple, competing selves lead to personal transformation, I think.’ https://www.theshipmanagency.com/samiya-bashir daily 0.75 2024-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1728044310197-MNIR1KKJ5C6M6P1M5RET/sb.jpg Samiya Bashir - Samiya Bashir (c) Nina Johnson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/ffd0c36e-f1bf-43b8-b9c4-4a5cbc21107c/2018-headshot-9234.jpg Samiya Bashir - Samiya Bashir “As a writer, an artist, a human, I’d rather work toward my own purpose—or even the purpose of a particular piece of work—than some purpose ascribed to me which, necessarily, comes attached to the agenda of the ascriber. Of course, as we work toward those purposes—good, ill, or indifferent—that rascally rabbit responsibility lurks in the dusty corners and ashy knee-backs.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/vincent-toro daily 0.75 2024-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1719769520452-RR7E0UXN9CVJ9UBDP82S/Author+Photo+%282%29.jpg Vincent Toro - Vincent Toro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/a535ddd2-adb6-439b-9d82-cb09b1dd6c9f/Author+Photo+%282%29.jpg Vincent Toro - Vincent Toro “An artist’s greatest asset is their insatiable hunger for knowledge. So much about what I love about my work as both a writer and educator is that I am constantly learning. I see knowledge as the well from which I draw in order to create. The deeper that well is, the more materials I have at my disposal, the more options I have when I set to work.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/saretta-morgan-1 daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1721748811511-YN8D57ODV45LMWEUFO27/Saretta_Author_Portraits+%282+of+10%29+%281%29.jpg Saretta Morgan - Saretta Morgan (c) Shaunté Glover https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/78c04042-968f-44c8-b609-ee061babfcb4/Saretta_Author_Portraits+%282+of+10%29.jpg Saretta Morgan - Saretta Morgan “I don’t write anything that moves me away from that feeling of softness. If I can’t say what I need to say in language that preserves the warmth and generosity of spirit I feel when sharing who I am with someone I love, then I don’t say it at all. At least not that day.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lindy-west daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1723832302863-CG49KGMAQIP9AGUCJIF5/Lindy-20205798.jpg Lindy West - Lindy West (c) Jenny Jimenez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/35b9a025-a78b-48e7-88fe-5eff84f605e7/Lindy-20205798.jpg Lindy West - Lindy West “I think the priority is to live politically aware, responsible, accountable, teachable lives, and to approach media consumption in general with a critical eye, particularly the things we make and the projects we support.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/oliver-radclyffe daily 0.75 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1729443129997-CHE4CFVUAHN59XQFUQE5/Author+Photo+Oliver_0398.JPG Oliver Radclyffe - Oliver Radclyffe © Lev Rose Water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d3c5d159-832e-4130-bb4b-20dd6d131b4d/Author+Photo+Oliver_0398.JPG Oliver Radclyffe - Oliver Radclyffe “Transition is such a mysterious and complex subject, even for those of us who’ve been through it, so I try to write for the kind of reader who has an open heart and mind but lots of unanswered questions. I want them to know that it’s OK if they’re struggling to understand what the hell gender is.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/megan-nolan daily 0.75 2024-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1730660568976-F9UFSLP2VAPRUGA1ISVG/IMG_7880.jpeg Megan Nolan - Megan Nolan © Sophie Davidson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/a8ca8621-ee54-4b9c-9df5-1e9112bde390/Megan+Nolan+headshot+.JPG Megan Nolan - Megan Nolan “People say you shouldn’t do an issues novel but I realised I cared about the complex psychology of people capable of violence and harm, particularly younger people, and how reductive we tend to be about its causes.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/roxana-robinson daily 0.75 2024-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1731865756818-OBPTPNFZYVZ5FPEY7X4Z/roxana.jpg Roxana Robinson - Roxana Robinson ©Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/09370ec4-1a4d-4485-83b8-cf373d416a0a/roxana.jpg Roxana Robinson - Roxana Robinson “What the writer does is bear witness: we tell the stories of the things that disturb us most, and we try to tell them in the way that will disturb you most. All writers do this; it’s up to them to raise issues, ask questions, and call attention to things that must be addressed. Without writers, a society is silenced.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/treska-nicole daily 0.75 2024-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1732989757268-UVUCW5F69NNCNB4MU4AD/IMG_7522.jpeg Treska, Nicole - Nicole Treska © Sasha Rudinsky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e943daa1-0e4a-490c-99d4-8d2e2d8361d2/IMG_7522.jpeg Treska, Nicole - Nicole Treska “ I learned a lot about failure writing this book, and pursuing a life in literature. It’s hard and it requires a lot of rejection. Getting good at rejection—taking what was helpful and letting go of what wasn’t—has helped me succeed enormously in life and love.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/nina-mcconigley daily 0.75 2026-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1733084326247-8UBA21KY2O95BJZMS28R/Nina+McConigley+DSC4188.jpeg Nina McConigley - Nina McConigley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/95139e13-0af9-446f-b431-265452ab1b2f/Nina+McConigley+DSC4188.jpeg Nina McConigley - Nina McConigley “ Everything I have written has some element of autobiography. Growing up a minority in Wyoming informs such a large sense of who I am, and I think have always tried to make sense of the feelings of being an outsider that I grew up with. I think those themes – race, identity, being on the margins – inform so much of my thinking, and that then comes out in my work.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/matthew-gavin-frank daily 0.75 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1733683113819-R5164KR6NRYWGVBZ7BH5/Author+Pic+2025+1.jpg Matthew Gavin Frank - Matthew Gavin Frank © Isabelle Fritz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/b479c5d7-baa2-451d-bf91-352bd7f917d0/Author+Pic+2025+1.jpg Matthew Gavin Frank - Matthew Gavin Frank “Sometimes, the essay needs to call out and re-examine our cultural narratives (and their desire to simplify the world for us) as illusory. To call attention to the mess. To restore a false simplicity to its innate complexity. To agitate our readers’ expectations rather than to confirm them (as well as our own). I suppose there’s both reward and challenge in forsaking easy, comforting answers, and instead embracing mystery. Sometimes I have trouble separating these lines of thinking from the processes of writing and just plain general living. ” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/aysegul-savas daily 0.75 2024-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1735320619902-4YFI9SB1G4R398GXS8AH/IMG_9094_bw3.jpeg Aysegul Savas - Ayşegül Savaş ©Maks Ovsjanikov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/28dbe095-0564-4dfd-ac77-4a6bd08e67d7/IMG_9094_bw3.jpeg Aysegul Savas - Ayşegül Savaş “For me, reading and writing are ways of having a home—sheltering in the rules and landscape of a particular fiction. Literature is driven by an essential homelessness: all writers and readers are in search of places to inhabit for short periods of time, before moving on to the next lodging.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ghassan-zeineddine daily 0.75 2025-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1735755681015-KX674OTIEQYT3NR2BK0X/ZeineddineGhassan_CreditAustinThomason+MichiganPhotography_LoRes_Color+%281%29.jpg Ghassan Zeineddine - Ghassan Zeineddine © Austin Thomason Michigan Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5969f135-92d1-4b0a-8604-413659c6d241/ZeineddineGhassan_CreditAustinThomason+MichiganPhotography_LoRes_Color+%281%29.jpg Ghassan Zeineddine - Ghassan Zeineddine “I’m obsessed with character. I can’t start writing a story until I have a relatively good idea about the characters I’m writing about. I spend months just taking notes on them; I create big maps that show how the main and minor characters are connected. These maps are messy, with scrawled notes and arrows pointing in all directions. Inevitably, when I start writing, my characters evolve from my original conception of them and surprise me. This is the fun part.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/emily-dufton daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1760967065527-8TGWCKHWV9AF610XVPOV/Dufton+Headshot+2022.jpg Emily Dufton - Emily Dufton © Mike Kepka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/ed046853-0735-4f6e-b9bd-3931ea1da189/Emily_Dusfton_BW_1118.jpg Emily Dufton - Emily Dufton “ I realized that revolution leads to counterrevolution leads to counterrevolution. It’s a never-ending cycle of people trying to get the last word.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kim-kelly daily 0.75 2025-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1737227895200-2GIY7HD4HKJMT5K3Z1P6/Kim+Kelly+photo.png Kim Kelly - Kim Kelly © Liz Kross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/52263cd4-0edf-4df2-b1f0-e0b9327d7555/Kim+Kelly+photo.png Kim Kelly - Kim Kelly “There’s always been someone, some group of workers who have been thought to be unorganizable, or not deserving, or somehow not in need of union protections because they don’t fit this specific avatar of what a quote-unquote union member should look like. And that’s always been bullshit because, look at my book, there are like 300 million pages of people that don’t fit that description but changed the world.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/heather-clark daily 0.75 2025-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1738513483320-FQRJ1XBD30YKPTDJ4W81/HeatherClark012425_127BeowulfSheehan.jpg Heather Clark - Heather Clark © Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5fa650ee-1532-45d3-a397-f508286f0837/HeatherClark012425_127BeowulfSheehan.jpg Heather Clark - Heather Clark “In her poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath writes, “Every woman adores a Fascist.” That line has always fascinated me, and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the connections Plath was making in “Daddy” regarding totalitarianism, patriarchy, and submission. These are big, philosophical ideas that I tried to explore on a smaller canvas in my novel.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/lidia-yuknavitch daily 0.75 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1739035347794-P796XY4NSBQVG7VCTGHJ/LidiaYuknavitchAuthorPic.jpg Lidia Yuknavitch - Lidia Yuknavitch © Miles Mingo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/9b61b744-537b-4da6-a924-c6a27a060408/LidiaYuknavitchAuthorPic.jpg Lidia Yuknavitch - Lidia Yuknavitch “For me, the body is a real place. It is a place you go to, a place you inhabit. It is the fundamental setting of every experience you have. And it is sometimes a place you leave in moments of fear or crisis or grief or depression or pain. I am working toward creating art that happens to a reader in their real body.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/maaza-mengiste daily 0.75 2025-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1739130632331-G5C0EOPF8T9A4PJLF9T5/Maaza_Mengiste-3+%281%29.JPG Maaza Mengiste - Maaza Mengiste © Nina Subin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/190d318b-20fe-4537-9a78-5a5f1985894a/Maaza_Mengiste-3+%281%29.JPG Maaza Mengiste - Maaza Mengiste “The stories that we tell ourselves, the stories that families pass down to each other about the people who have been lost or the indignities they have suffered as a result of conflict, those stories can help shape a reality that says we know what can be lost, let’s try to do everything that we can to avoid war.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/brittany-newell-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1742242197148-IL2MLKFJFR0E5Z7SBR9E/brittany.jpeg Brittany Newell - Brittany Newell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/65b70283-cf5a-4bfb-9926-6af4e3de578e/image-asset+%281%29.jpeg Brittany Newell - Brittany Newell “Hands down Soft Core was the most fun and emergent and exhilarating writing experience I’ve ever had. I’d sit down in my armchair (I never write at a desk, it hurts my stomach lol) and I’d let myself be seduced (back to seduction again!) by the colors and vibes and sounds of the novel as it came together. I knew early on that the book would be overwhelmingly purple, if that makes sense, and a bit smoky. And a bit glittery but not too much. Writing about the dancer’s bikinis and stockings and lipsticks and shoes helped me home in on the synesthetic qualities of the world.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/megan-fernandes daily 0.75 2025-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1744576494585-X98BWQY6YFNHKBEJ5AK9/meg+author+2+2023_colorprofile_export.jpg Megan Fernandes - Megan Fernandes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d8b1182f-c133-43d9-8287-543a350b0ff7/meg+author+2+2023_colorprofile_export.jpg Megan Fernandes - Megan Fernandes “I prefer love poems that are abundant in how they imagine who or what is worth loving. No center stage spotlight on a single dancer. I prefer the symphony. Even better if the symphony is full of mishap and error.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/betsy-lerner daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1744832419169-996P5I64IBDXU6J94ZOP/Betsy+Lerner_Author+Photo_Photo+credit+-+Maryana+Karayim+%281%29.jpg Betsy Lerner - Betsy Lerner © Maryana Karayim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/5f1ad812-c59a-4035-855c-555e05a77ed2/Betsy+Lerner_Author+Photo_Photo+credit+-+Maryana+Karayim+%281%29.jpg Betsy Lerner - Betsy Lerner “As one of my literary heroes, Truman Capote, wrote, "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip." Now I understand that writers are a breed apart, their gift and whips inextricably linked. The writer's psychology is by its very nature one of extreme duality. The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person..” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/john-cameron-mitchell daily 0.75 2025-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1747592076415-DOPHJ0M7ED2JONDS2XFI/JCM_MatthewPlacek-medRES.jpg John Cameron Mitchell - John Cameron Mitchell © Matthew Placek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/60cd0fa1-a8a4-43e4-9f91-62825a8ab9e1/JCM_MatthewPlacek-medRES.jpg John Cameron Mitchell - John Cameron Mitchell “So, how can all of us access the punk? Get in the room with other people (more D.I.Y. and I.R.L.). Embrace the analog, which can’t be surveilled by artificial intelligence. Reach out to unexpected, even problematic (I prefer “problemagic”), allies, with different but compatible definitions of justice. Luckily, kindness looks the same to most of us. And as you start making that useful thing, you might lock eyes with the person working at your side, and maybe this time you won’t flinch. The walls of identity crumble in the face of our greatest human strength: empathy.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/cathy-linh-che daily 0.75 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1748027538557-4DHF3JXPHYNHL2QGC78K/Cathy%2BLinh%2BChe%2BCredit%2BJess%2BX.%2BSnow+%281%29.jpg Cathy Linh Che - Cathy Linh Che ©Jess X. Snow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/4077fc15-c3e2-4212-b0f3-61e5194007bd/Cathy%2BLinh%2BChe%2BCredit%2BJess%2BX.%2BSnow+%281%29.jpg Cathy Linh Che - Cathy Linh Che “I find that I write into silence. My parents have been telling me their stories of Vietnam throughout my life, and it seemed to me that in movies, newspapers, literature, their voices and stories were egregiously absent. I wanted to address this absence by writing their stories—and really, my story, our Vietnamese and American and Vietnamese American story—so that they could participate in the polyphony of voices constructing the American narrative.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/ahmad-almallah daily 0.75 2025-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1748194500798-T8I3QE1WHERSV6HVZZU4/Ahmad-Profile.jpg Ahmad Almallah - Ahmad Almallah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/14ea140a-0ac4-4fc1-8ab8-407230a25242/Ahmad-Profile.jpg Ahmad Almallah - Ahmad Almallah “I’m not sure that writing in itself can help in compensating for the loss of home, or anything for that matter. It’s a nice idea that we play around with, especially in academic circles and so on, but I don’t think it works that way. One’s connection with the land is real, and when it’s broken by injustice, oppression or any other reason, the consequences are just as real and devastating.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/fariha-risn daily 0.75 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1748888818918-52J0WRWS91STFX07YZPP/E3FE81CF-35CC-4E90-A413-F910B67E416A_1_102_o.jpeg Fariha Róisín - Fariha Roísín https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/a64a0b72-e6c9-4f70-aaab-7180c4acfa04/E3FE81CF-35CC-4E90-A413-F910B67E416A_1_102_o.jpeg Fariha Róisín - Fariha Róisín “Everybody needs to heal. Everybody needs to want to. Because if everybody does, then we can have the world that we want, where we’re looking out for others, caring about others. Everything is an offering and I’m accepting what I’m being offered.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kevin-nguyen daily 0.75 2025-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1749500274198-K3OFBQS0MXHW2BDGV1QG/author-photo-02-medium.jpg Kevin Nguyen - Kevin Nguyen © Robyn Kanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/98142348-3391-4894-95fd-8a6797596360/author-photo-02-medium.jpg Kevin Nguyen - Kevin Nguyen "Fiction and nonfiction sound like opposites, but they are complementary pursuits. Writing — whether it's novels or journalism — requires rigor, compassion, and creativity.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/maris-kreizman daily 0.75 2025-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1750021107884-MZZCJ32A7IG91E2UQ3F9/Maris-Kreizman-17143-1-+2.jpeg Maris Kreizman - Maris Kreizman © Mindy Tucker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/8acc2b2d-ef2f-4560-9718-5e44dbfe06dd/Maris-Kreizman-17143-1-+2.jpeg Maris Kreizman - Maris Kreizman “The best kinds of books are the ones with attributes that are unquantifiable, which is a big reason why people are so much better at recommendations than algorithms are. There are so many different things to like (or dislike) about a work, special qualities that go beyond plot and setting and genre that can’t be revealed from metadata: voice, tone, philosophical outlook. What is unquantifiable is horrifying to the corporate overlords, of course, but it’s the magic that connects readers with particular books.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/rachel-kolb daily 0.75 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1751136720962-G13FKAJ05RHE8HBFTA7T/250331JBS_RachelKolb33.jpg Rachel Kolb - Rachel Kolb © Josephine Sittenfeld https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/e7b57f92-63a4-428b-8fcd-fdbe152e9fe7/250331JBS_RachelKolb33.jpg Rachel Kolb - Rachel Kolb “We all have the right to language and the right to understand what’s being said around us, and we also have the responsibility to make sure that our work and ideas are accessible to the other people we meet. Hearing people benefit from access, too — not least via gaining their own access to Deaf perspectives, contributions, interactions, and ideas!” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/tricia-romano daily 0.75 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1751824694924-2EAA900WEW6CY2I9BXJC/IMG_0603.jpeg Tricia Romano - Tricia Romano © Morgan Bell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6e5cfaa4-a697-499f-aa96-b48841422fbd/IMG_0603.jpeg Tricia Romano - Tricia Romano “Writing, and all of the tools that help writers create— reporting, researching, interviewing, examining, excavating, imagining— is a way of getting at the truth of how we live in the world. And it is a way to cultivate new worlds, too.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/elizabeth-evitts-dickinson daily 0.75 2025-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1754935779388-YUM5XD4GNGCY1I32EFMB/Elizabeth+Evitts+Dickinson_Photo+Credit+Stefani+Foster+LaBrecque.jpg Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson - Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson © Stefani Foster LaBrecque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/53a1c4f4-c50d-49f2-9125-133c4f79d749/Elizabeth+Evitts+Dickinson_Photo+Credit+Stefani+Foster+LaBrecque.jpg Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson - Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson “I write because I believe in the power of storytelling to connect us through the shared truths of human experience. In the specific and thoughtfully rendered details of one person’s story we can see the universal. Literature is an act of empathy; it is a conduit for illumination.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/peter-ames-carlin daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1759172234187-XR2MP85ARRRTSRZTN9QM/PAC+author+photo+-+Terry+Allen.jpeg Peter Ames Carlin - Peter Ames Carlin © Terry Allen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/b404e0c6-0123-4694-a9b5-8c4ab28c4ffb/PAC+author+photo+-+Terry+Allen.jpeg Peter Ames Carlin - Peter Ames Carlin “I'm really interested in the creation of art and how we all have a shared experience of life, but some of us are able to lift off and translate that into something. How artists write about something that feels very intimate and interior to themselves but do it in a way that is understood and touching to people all around the world – to me, that's amazing.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/richard-siken daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1762458205272-SSRHCSYXEJUPI762WZ63/Siken_HeadShot.jpg Richard Siken - Richard Siken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/573763f9-a24b-40f4-8b54-89ae80f453c9/Siken_HeadShot.jpg Richard Siken - Richard Siken “Poetry is an example of how to be human. And I believe poetry is the language of the imagination. And we need larger imaginations. Figurative language reframes problems and offers previously unseen solutions. It challenges as well as delights. Poetry should be everyone’s second language.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/new-index-1 daily 0.75 2026-01-09 https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kayla-e daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1770149501830-IMJ4MGIU9RJ9CMN407WL/KAYLA_HEADSHOT.jpg Kayla E - Kayla E. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/2da55bff-63f8-46c6-9e76-f8a0c4ea4650/KAYLA_HEADSHOT.jpg Kayla E - Kayla E. “I know this is not a super common perspective, especially for creative people who tend to be a little judgmental, but I think that there’s something holy and beautiful about any human being making art. Whether it’s someone drawing comics at a really high level, experimenting with paint-by-numbers, or just doodling stick figures; whatever it is that compels us to create is a kind of magic.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/pemi-aguda daily 0.75 2026-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1771877248114-3U6XKX5CHGEKNL0ZEBQL/Aguda+Pemi+by+IfeOluwa+Nihinlola.jpg "Pemi Aguda - 'Pemi Aguda © IfeOluwa Nihinlola https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/87d22a65-3c0c-4278-aedf-6ff66aec0c8e/Aguda+Pemi+by+IfeOluwa+Nihinlola.jpg "Pemi Aguda - ‘Pemi Aguda “None of us are free, but I hope the lesson is that it’s always worth it to try. Even if freedom doesn’t taste like you expected. In fiction, trapping a character pushes the repressed to the surface, forces them to look—at the world, at themselves.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/kleaver-cruz daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1772485798433-OUWTKVN15D1SUN5LZFP6/Kleaver+Cruz-Author+Photo-StefenPompe%CC%81e+2.JPG Kleaver Cruz - Kleaver Cruz © Steffen Pompée https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/d6229d92-a4ea-4f3f-b560-518383d494a9/Kleaver+Cruz-Author+Photo-StefenPompe%CC%81e+2+%281%29.JPG Kleaver Cruz - Kleaver Cruz "Centering on Black joy is not about dismissing or creating an "alternative" Black narrative that ignores the realities of our collective pain; rather, it is about holding the pain and injustice we experience as Black folks around the world in tension with the joy we experience in the pain's midst. Black joy is healing, resistance and regeneration. The two, joy and pain, are not mutually exclusive, and often we need the latter to get through the former." https://www.theshipmanagency.com/fargo-tbakhi daily 0.75 2026-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1773081911629-JC4IVO173QOQH6IF30XL/10142024_112.jpg Fargo Tbakhi - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi © Jonathan Aprea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/a7f462a1-f137-45ca-b144-0ab655cc3eb9/10142024_112.jpg Fargo Tbakhi - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi “Creative work readies us for material work, by offering a space to try out strategies, think through contradictions, remind us of our own agency. We must be engaged in this kind of writing, which calls others into mobilization, generating feelings within our audiences that cannot be dispersed through the act of reading, but must be carried out into collective action. You sit, you read something, you feel grief or anger or joy, you get it all out, you put it down, you go about business as usual—this is the coercive affective system that Craft insists upon. We must write in such a way that there is no business, there is no usual.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/michael-thomas daily 0.75 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1773516147300-D1G79ODLSQJ39U4MTXPP/Michael+Thomas+%28c%29+Ben+Russell.JPG Michael Thomas - Michael Thomas © Ben Russell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/6887eaeb-2b21-4675-9518-a668314a5259/Michael+Thomas+%28c%29+Ben+Russell.JPG Michael Thomas - Michael Thomas “I came from a really beautiful and strange and frightening and dynamic place. I think I still inhabit that place.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/sloane-crosley daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1774116413786-L9FBRHIYTR8PO9IJBK6U/dark+roof+%281%29.jpg Sloane Crosley - Sloane Crosley © Beowulf Sheehan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/82abdebe-2bd1-4eaa-807a-6498e854125a/dark+roof.jpg Sloane Crosley - Sloane Crosley “The past is quicksand, and the future is unknowable. But in the present, you get to float. Nothing is missing. Nothing is hypothetical.” https://www.theshipmanagency.com/jerry-stahl daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/1775239421325-42OYN062NPU968611O31/IMG_6491.jpeg Jerry Stahl - Jerry Stahl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a139170aeb625e762acc7cd/43b0983a-c8e4-4b2e-810a-9c4d4ee0be55/jerry+2.jpeg Jerry Stahl - Jerry Stahl “I have come to realize that everybody on the planet is recovering from something. And deserves our compassion. 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