MAR Asks, Andrea Witzke Slot Answers
Andrea Witzke Slot lives between London and Chicago. She writes poetry, fiction, essays, and academic work, and is particularly interested in the ways and means in which cultures, ideas, and genres intersect. She is author of the poetry collection To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press, 2012), and her work is forthcoming or has...
MAR Asks, Luisa Caycedo-Kimura Answers
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura was the 2014 John K. Walsh Residency Fellow at the Anderson Center at Tower View, the 2014 Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellow at Ragdale, and a 2013 Robert Pinsky Global Fellow in Poetry. She holds an MFA from Boston University. Born in Colombia and raised in New York City, Luisa, a former attorney, left...
MAR Asks, Emily Schulten Answers
Emily Schulten is a poet from Bowling Green, Kentucky. She is the author of the collection Rest in Black Haw, poetry available from New Plains Press. Her poems appear widely in nationally recognized journals such as Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, New Orleans Review, Fifth Wednesday, North American Review, Salamander, The Los Angeles Review, and others. She’s here to...
Pets with MAR: Salami Sandwich
Let’s give a catnip-filled welcome to Salami Sandwich, a kitty belonging to Ernie and Keats Czyzniejewski. Here’s Salami with issue 35.1! Super secret insider info: Salami lives in the same household as MAR history — two former editor-in-chiefs, Mike Czyzniejewski (author, most recently, of I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life: Breakup...
MAR Asks, Nina Boutsikaris Answers
Nina Boutsikaris is a nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Arizona, where she is the nonfiction editor of Sonora Review. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Puerto del Sol, Hobart, Brevity, Booth, Phoebe, Spartan and elsewhere. Her short nonfiction piece, “What Doo-Wop Does” was a finalist in MAR’s 2014 Fineline competition...
AWP 2015: Parties are Not for Proofreading
MAR is back from a busy and fruitful AWP in Minneapolis. We celebrated the journal’s 35th anniversary, hosted a party in an art gallery complete with a cake and a keg, gave away lots of hotdish recipe cards and MAR issues at the booth, and best of all, connected with some of our wonderful readers,...
AWP 2015: MAR Dishes Out Goodness at Booth 1728
MAR is headed to AWP in Minneapolis, and you know what that means: bookfair swag. This year, in honor of Minnesota’s fondness for the hotdish (casserole), we’ve compiled hotdish recipe cards from various authors. You can pick up a card or two, or you could really commit to the hotdish goodness by picking up one...
MAR Asks, Bryce Emley Answers
As a finalist in the 2014 Fineline Competition for prose poems, short shorts, and everything in between, Bryce Emley’s piece, “Diving Deep (My Father as Octopus)” appears in MAR 35.1. He’s here today to discuss science as artistic inspiration, bizarre birthmarks, and his rather unorthodox reaction to his MAR acceptance. Bryce Emley is a freelance...
MAR Asks, Kristin George Bagdanov Answers
Today on the blog we have a contributor interview with Kristin George Bagdanov, whose poem “Purge Body” appears in MAR 35.1. Kristin is an MFA candidate in poetry at Colorado State University, where she is a Lilly Graduate Fellow. Her poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Cincinnati Review, Juked, The Laurel Review,...