BWRfeels more like my childhood home at 6:30 in the evening and during the middle of Summer, when the light would be coming in through the back porch in that sort of yellow orange tint, but my Grandmother had little crystalline structures that laced the edges of the windows and they’d scatter prisms across the hardwood, on the couch, the coffee table, the walls.

Paul Tran is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere, including the Netflix movie Love Beats...

I’m looking for humor and play and lyricism. I’m looking to be surprised, I’m looking to be taught.

BWRfeels more like my childhood home at 6:30 in the evening and during the middle of Summer, when the light would be coming in through the back porch in that sort of yellow orange tint, but my Grandmother had little crystalline structures that laced the edges of the windows and they’d scatter prisms across the hardwood, on the couch, the coffee table, the walls.

To me, experimental writing is writing that doesn’t engage/intersect with the western gaze. Work that foregrounds other cultures/other ways of “seeing” are exciting and right up my alley.

To me, experimental writing is writing that doesn’t engage/intersect with the western gaze. Work that foregrounds other cultures/other ways of “seeing” are exciting and right up my alley.

I am opposed to the idea that nonfiction maintains “inherent” qualities mainly because I reject the notion that there are parameters to how we encounter our own truths, especially when memory itself is messy and fallible and prone to altering itself to accommodate its ruptures.

David Joez Villaverde has recently appeared in Yemassee, RHINO, The Indianapolis Review, and Gravel. He was a finalist for the Antioch-Frontier Fellowship and received a scholarship to attend the Bear River Writers’ Conference. Follow him on Twitter @AcademicJuggalo...

Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and The Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution. Her collection of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, won the 2015 Essay Book Award. She teaches and lectures across the United States, and...