India Gonzalez

Dec 18, 2023 | pw.org | India Gonzalez

In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 186. “Let me begin with Crow. I first met Crow on the mountain. The mountain that changed everything. There’s always been a bird inside me. It used to sit outside my window when I was a girl, me feeding the hogs across the cornfields. Then that little bird was orange and bright, but it grew into Crow, black Crow.

Dec 13, 2023 | pw.org | India Gonzalez

subscribe by From the January/February 2024 issue ofPoets & Writers Magazine The ingenious collections included in our nineteenth annual feature celebrating debut books of poetry are composed of poems that were written more than a decade ago, if not a few years back.

Dec 11, 2023 | pw.org | India Gonzalez

In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 185. Can a poem become a body in motion? How about several bodies, a company of dancers moving about the page in synchronicity (sometimes not), taking up as much space as possible from the curtain to the scrim?

Dec 4, 2023 | pw.org | India Gonzalez

In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 184. I am admittedly a cold-blooded creature, which is to say I run chilly naturally and am therefore always following the sun, wherever its rays land. I am grateful when I sit next to someone on the subway, especially during the piercing frigidity of winter, and a bit of their warmth transfers to my person. I need that fire to keep me going.

Sep 22, 2023 | therumpus.net | India Gonzalez |Bhanu Kapil |Renee Gladman |Audre Lorde

What to Read When Your Spirit Needs a Refresh Nonsense. No sense. Nuisance. New sense. Our current world is a vortex of crises, sentiments, and politics. And yet, we still go about our human business.