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Final Thoughts From Outgoing Assistant Managing Editor, Sophia Patane
Dear friends, contributors, and readers, As I pass along the mantle of Assistant Managing Editor and graduate from Hamline’s MFA program, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for the incredible support and enthusiasm you have for...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Tegan Daly
1. Tell us about your poem “Coulee Kids” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? This poem is a commentary on the community where I grew up in western Wisconsin. I started writing it after hearing about the passing of the woman I mention in the poem, who was the mother...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Rachel Moritz
1. Tell us about your essay, “Memory Palace,” from Volume 21. How did it come to be? I wrote “Memory Palace” to explore my experience of teaching poetry to older adults with memory loss, as well as the way memory has shifted in my own life through parenting a young...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Lori Anderson Moseman
1. Tell us about your fiction piece in Volume 21, “Double Jack Slip Jig.” How did it come to be? Moseman “Double Jack Slip Jig” is the opening chapter of a novella, Snippet, that I wrote to inhabit/explore the aftermath of a murder-suicide. Before Google, the only...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Molly Tenenbaum
1. Tell us about your poems in Volume 21, “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun” and “O Pie of Grace.” How did they come to be? “To Shade a Green We Say a Noun”: I was frustrated with sea-green, forest-green, mint-green. There are so many greens! Description is so hard! I...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Alison Morse
1. Tell us about your poem, “Dream Rematerialized in Bangladesh,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? I really did have a dream in which long threads that extended from my mother's tongue were stitched through my fingertips. She spoke, my hands typed. I was her...
An Interview With Literary Agent Noah Ballard
Noah Ballard is an agent at Curtis Brown, Ltd. Noah focuses on literary fiction, short story collections and narrative non-fiction, including memoir, journalism and pop culture. Writer Lucas McMillan called him up to discuss querying,...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Torres
1. Tell us about your poems, “The Very Short Story of Your Knuckles” and “After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the Park Said: “I Can Tell You Learned Those on the Inside.”,” in Volume 21. How did they come to be? “After the Man Who Found Me Doing Burpees at the...
In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Martha Silano
1. Tell us about your poem, “Hummingbirds of the World,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? I’ve been admiring hummingbirds since I was a kid. Over the years I’ve been lucky enough to view them in the wild, and I’ve spent time researching their feats of strength and...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Maya Beck
1. Tell us about your CNF piece, “Weekly Specials,” in Volume 21. How did it come to be? My family moves around a lot, and one of the discussions we have about that is over what stores are present and which are missing. I feel it brings a bit of stability to be able...
