In an interview with Mark Hillringhouse, poet Anne Waldman responds to a question about the literary scene with a quote that could apply to Hillringhouse’s entire new book, Talking All Night: The New ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Sharon Elliott is an author, international poet, and initiated Lukumi and Ifa priest residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dreams of freedom, peace and social justice filled her head and heart from a ...

Joe Freeman is an American writer and researcher who has worked across Southeast Asia for more than a decade, reporting from Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines and in Myanmar during the mid-2010s ...

When I first read San Francisco-based poet Julien Poirier’s Out of Print, recently released via the City Lights Spotlight series, I was struck by way Poirier embraces that ephemeral, experiential ...

Caballero giving the first digital poetry performance at Art Genève, hosted by Giga/UNICEF. Photo: Marc Bader, 2025 The biggest downside to being an editor when you launched your career as a writer is ...