SELFIE INTERVIEW | S.K. Kalsi
Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? S.K. Kalsi: Language inspires me, everyday speech with its hidden rhythms, cadences, and how meaning is contextual. My son inspires me. Seeing his fearlessness at play. Watching him take risks, fall, get back up, and try again. His dogged persistence. Nature ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Amy Collini
Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Amy Collini: My children are my primary driver, but in unexpected ways. Before I had children, I lived in an ocean of free time without even knowing it! And I never used my free time toward any productive attempts at writing; ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Jacob M. Appel
Eckleburg: What drives, inspires, and feeds your artistic work? Jacob M. Appel: A deep and abiding sense of inadequacy. I suppose that's exactly the sort of answer one might expect from a writer-psychiatrist, but that doesn't make it less true. I think there's an argument to be made that some ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Kristen MacKenzie
Kristen MacKenzie lives on Vashon Island in a quiet cabin where the shelves are filled with herbs for medicine-making, the floor is open for dancing, and the table faces the ocean, waiting for a writer to pick up the pen. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Rawboned, GALA, Extract(s) Daily ... Read More
SELFIE INTERVIEW | Caleb Powell
What drives, inspires, feeds your artistic work? My grandfather, born in Iran, moved to Lebanon where he and my grandmother gave birth to my father, and subsequently moved to the United States. My grandfather died young and my grandmother remarried a Catholic. This explains my loaded Christian name, and is ... Read More
INTERVIEW | Annelyse Gelman
Movement. Metaphor. Sound. Meaning. Poet Annelyse Gelman’s collection, Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone, addresses and implements all of these things. No—challenges all of these things. No, wait—they wrestle, dance, embrace and question all of these things. They do all of that and more. In other words, Gelman’s ... Read More
INTERVIEW I Rikki Ducornet
In her new collection of essays, The Deep Zoo, artist and writer Rikki Ducornet looks at where imagination, violence, dreams, and fairy tales represent the deep zoo at the core of humanity. Here, Ducornet discusses further the ways in which art and the written intersect in our lives and relations ... Read More
INTERVIEW | Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
In her collection of poetry, Streaming, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke brings nature and our sensory experiences together in order to create a rich collection that speaks to our experiences with the world. The book welcomes the reader to engage with it, to think about and consider the meanings behind Hedge ... Read More
