Beth Staples
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Behind the Poems
Behind the Poems Poets on what inspired their work in the issue
Unveiling Her Glorious Share: An Interview with Rainie Oet and Alice Blank
Unveiling Her Glorious Share An interview with Rainie Oet and Alice Blank
Naira, Fiercely: Remembering the Life and Work of Naira Kuzmich
Naira, Fiercely Remembering the life and work of Naira Kuzmich
Radical Rebirth
Radical Rebirth Beth Staples reinvents W&L’s Shenandoah magazine with a commitment to diverse voices and intensive collaboration.
Loud with Invention: An Interview with Mita Mahato
Loud with Invention: An Interview with Mita Mahato “I wanted to spoil the consumer’s daydream of quiet seasides. I wanted to expose that the lullaby we are singing to these whales is a deadly hum.”
The Disappearing Center: An Interview with Janet McAdams
The Disappearing Center: An Interview with Janet McAdams “Who ever expected this, this wild and rich flourishing of so many different poetries?”
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Shenandoah Editors Put Their Own Spin on Book Recs
Four of Shenandoah’s editors talk books that have inspired them, books they wish they had read, and books they think more people should read.
Quilting the Works of Shenandoah
This digital quilt, created by Shenandoah intern Kalli Walsh, represents the pieces that make up Volume 73.1. Here, she explains the process of creating this quilt: “My idea for the quilt project was to highlight how all of the different works of Shenandoah come together to form one cohesive edition, despite the differences in medium and content. After […]
Congratulations to Graybeal-Gowen Prize Winner, Majda Gama!
Huge congratulations to Majda Gama for winning Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize this year for her poem “In Great Aunt Noor’s Salon”! Judge Anna Maria Hong said, “I’m enthralled by this poem’s movements recollecting recent wars and their reverberations through our current catastrophes, the collateral and casual destructions of empire, as the poet deftly traverses time and place, melding […]