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A Promote Indie Lit Article IN CONVERSATION Karen Pierce Gonzalez doesn’t just write poems — she builds bridges between worlds. From the moment she first read nursery rhymes in elementary school, she’...

I’m now accepting submissions for In Conversation, In Critique, a new series here on my personal author site, and part of PIL: Promoting Indie Lit. This feature offers something often missing from tod...

I’m now accepting submissions for In Conversation, In Critique, a new series here on my personal author site, and part of PIL: Promoting Indie Lit. This feature offers something often missing from today’s literary coverage: a meaningful space where poets and their work are taken seriously, not solemnly, and where being read matters more than […]

In Conversation There is no mistaking the voice of Finnegan the Poet. Born and bred in New York City’s fire-lit underground, Finnegan is a performance poet whose work does not ask for your comfort. It...

I’m developing a new interview and review series. I’ve long believed that poets deserve more than empty praise. They deserve to be read carefully, responded to honestly, and spoken to with respect, wh...

In Conversation Jamie Woods doesn’t write poetry for your comfort. He writes because he must—because the words arrive heavy, vital, unfinished until spoken aloud. “I’ve always written: lyrics, reviews, short stories, opening chapters to novels, and poems,” he says. But it’s poetry that stuck. Not for lack of ambition elsewhere, but because it’s the only […]

I’m now accepting submissions for In Conversation, In Critique, a new series here on my personal author site, and part of PIL: Promoting Indie Lit. This feature offers something often missing from today’s literary coverage: a meaningful space where poets and their work are taken seriously, not solemnly, and where being read matters more than […]

In Conversation There is no mistaking the voice of Finnegan the Poet. Born and bred in New York City’s fire-lit underground, Finnegan is a performance poet whose work does not ask for your comfort. It devours it. Across decades and continents, his writing has explored race, power, sex, and selfhood with a ferocity few dare […]

In Conversation When Mari Ellis Dunning began drafting the poem that would become Crocodile, she didn’t set out to write a pamphlet. The piece emerged after she read Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women, a...