No. 43: Elizabeth Gross Q. What drew you to include a fragment by Sappho, the famous Greek poet, who is known for writing about love and eroticism?...
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Pins & Needles No. 42: Claire Cronin
No. 42: Claire Cronin Q. Fairy Tale Review is interested in non-Western fairy tales, although many of our entries have their basis in European or...
Pins & Needles No. 41: Elise Winn
No. 41: Elise Winn Q. “After my father left, she’d passed the books down to me. Remember, she said, none of this is true.” How do you see that...
Pins & Needles No. 40: Christian Rees
No. 40: Christian Rees Q. No one teaches writers how to utilize white space in poetry, and everyone has their own techniques. What advice can you...
Pins & Needles No. 39: Kirsten Holt
No. 39: Kirsten Holt Q. Selkies are a form of shapeshifter, a popular trope in fairy tales, where a person puts on the skin of an animal and takes...
Pins & Needles No. 38: Christina Kloess
No. 38: Christina Kloess Q. “The house is alive.” Do you think every house has a kind of life? What about the place you're living now? I believe...
Pins & Needles No. 36: Richard Siken
No. 36: Richard Siken Q. Let’s get a little metaphysical. At the end of your poem, “The Story of the Moon,” you write “one wonders why a story like...
Pins & Needles No. 34: Lucas Church
No. 34: Lucas Church Q. How did you prepare for and navigate through this story with all the stigmas and stereotypes surrounding obese people...
Pins & Needles No. 33: Rachel Zavecz
No. 33: Rachel Zavecz Q. In addition to the linguistic hyperdrive pirouetting through “Six” (“wetly the blooded stump (fanging hotly whitened nails...
Pins & Needles No. 32: Traci Brimhall
No. 32: Traci Brimhall Q. I really enjoyed how your piece builds a world without exposition, relying on the riotous and grief-filled actions of the...