April 04, 2015
"Every Part of Who I Am": An Interview with Kwame Dawes:
The Pleiades Visiting Writers Series for Spring 2015 kicked off on January 28th with a lecture and reading by writer, activist, teacher, editor, critic and director Kwame Dawes. Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 and was raised in Jamaica. He lived for many years in South Carolina, and now works at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a Professor of English and ...
April 04, 2015
"Way Too Much Fun to Do Terrible Things": An Interview with author Rebecca Makkai
Pleiades student intern Allina Robie recently had the opportunity to interview author Rebecca Makkai about her novel The Hundred-Year House and her upcoming short-story collection Music for Wartime. Rebecca has a story in the current issue of Pleiades 35.1, “Everything We Know About the Bomber,” and another story, “The George ...
April 02, 2015
A Poem by D.A. Powell from PLEIADES 20.2, Summer 2000
[the sad part of living is eating and dying]
the sad part of living is eating and dying
our dialogue breaks off mid-sentence
the bill arrives as a eulogy: itemized
everyone swallows a breathmint. repression
nevermind the cost: I'll pick up your tab
you got the cab. these days green and ...
