Conversations

Brandon Som’s Tripas (Georgia Review Books, 2023) won a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and was a finalist for a National Book Award. He is also the author of The Tribute Horse, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and …

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collections The Last Catastrophe and Of This New World; her debut novel, Eleutheria, was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the VCU …

Daniela Danz and I have corresponded since 2015, when I first began translating her work. While our exchanges were initially practical or logistical in nature, we started engaging in conversations about social and poetic questions when I’d ask her in …

INTRODUCTION

Black Guy White Guy Talking is a podcast where good friends Elwyn Laud-Hammond and Zachary Watterson talk about gun ownership, reparations, and housing, among other things. They speak with award-winning authors and thinkers, such as CNN and MSNBC commentator …

Cole Swensen, judge of our 2024 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, is the author of nineteen books of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023); a collection of hybrid ekphrastic essay-poems, Art in Time (Nightboat Books, 2021); and a …

Georgia Review graduate editor Sarah Shermyen recently spoke over Zoom with GR contributor Caylin Capra-Thomas about finding home, Florida, and our understandings of beauty. This is an edited version of that conversation. Capra-Thomas’s essay, “Somewhere Like Here but Better,” and …

Audre Lorde said that “poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeletal architecture of our lives.” If some poetry serves as the bones of this architecture, Ariana Benson’s poems in her debut collection, Black Pastoral, now …

Fang Xin 方莘 was born in Chengdu, China, in 1939. Ten years later he settled with his family in Taipei, Taiwan. As a teenager he joined an established group of poets known as the Blue Star Poetry Society 藍星詩社. His …

Poet, essayist, and critic Hanif Abdurraqib is the judge for The Georgia Review’s 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Here, associate poetry editor Soham Patel interviews Abdurraqib about art in different genres that is inspiring him as well as …

In celebration of the publication of their newest books, Paisley Rekdal, author of West: A Translation, and Julia H. Lee, author of The Racial Railroad, discuss the cultural influence of Chinese and Asian labor on the Transcontinental, and …