"One can imagine a lonely poet facing the beautiful sights of a ‘golden island’ or willow-reeds in a lush field, at once feeling free through nature, but also trapped terrestrially due to his mortal conscience."
Bijaan Noormohamed on translation for our #10questions: massreview.org/2026/03/23/1...
"If I am insistent and lucky, I might stumble upon something surprising but that which seems to be already waiting in the language of arrival."
Dong Li on the uncovering found within translation, plus his admiration of en plein air painting, for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2026/02/24/1...
Read this weeks @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with the super talented musician @joaoaranhamusico.bsky.social and discover which a song in Rio heard @ #RockInRio still gives him goosebumps... #newmusicalert #indiemusician #newmusic #freshmusic www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-more...
Read @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with @gailvogel18.bsky.social and discover why its good advice to "Be sure to practice your music" www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newmusic
"I found an angle that also allowed me to give voice to my love of cats, as well as a specific form that let me play with—and satirize—academic scholarship."
@srkraaijeveld.bsky.social on cats, Dostoevsky, and teaching ethics for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/29/1...
"I think the same part of me [that wanted to be an actor] today enjoys reading poems aloud—the performance aspect can be electric."
Caroline Stevens from our Fall 2025 issue answers our #10Questions (almost)!
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Read this weeks #10Questions with @gailvogel18.bsky.social www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... and learn who told her the best advice is "to be the best that I can be." #newmusic @newartistspotlight.bsky.social
"The stories of the genocide in Gaza are unbearably difficult to tell, but I believe they are most truthfully carried in a poem, surrounded by an expanse of white space that mirrors both silence and grief."
Ibrahim Fawzy from our Gaza issue, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/12/08/7...
Read @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with @denyxx.bsky.social and learn why 'you should always have a goal to work towards and never give up if that's what you love'' www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newmusicalert
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"Tepoztlán was where I came to know Spanish as a way of living, a way of relating to the world, where I acquired membership in a Spanish-speaking community, rather than 'a language.'"
Mark Schafer talks all about translating for our #10Questions:
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"I love the idea of America, as often described through my mother’s nostalgia-laden lens... Thus, all my life, I pined for that miraculous birthland of which I have no memory."
Jennifer Jang on her inspiration from imagined places, for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/11/19/1...
"I’m hoping and trusting that, as I turn toward that prose, poems will sneak in. They are always invited."
Elizabeth Bradfield for our #10Questions, out now: massreview.org/2025/11/17/1...
"I don’t remember wanting to 'be.' I wanted to know."
Jan Clausen for our #10Questions. Read the full interview here: massreview.org/2025/11/12/1...
"I am a big believer in maintaining corners of hope and joy in difficult times. Otherwise, what’s the point of living in this beautiful and chaotic world?"
Meg Favreau for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/11/10/1...
Read this weeks @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with @benjaminlaplace.bsky.social and find out why when it comes to making music "there is only one thing to do - work, and work more." www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newmusic #classical #rock #SOMBRESILLUMINÉS
"When I was young, I didn’t know that one could “be” a writer in the sense of a career. I wrote and read because I needed to, and because it kept me alive in very difficult circumstances."
Translator Margaree Little for our #10Questions : massreview.org/2025/11/05/1...
Read this weeks @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with #DislikeTonality and find out what happens when you give and give to music... "music is like a beautiful being that you give and give and at some point..." www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newartist #NewMusic
"My kids periodically ask me if I became what I wanted to be, which always makes me laugh so hard I cry and can’t breathe."
Brian Russell talks Route 66, acrostic poems, and time management as a father for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/10/29/1...
Read @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with @mattkik.bsky.social and discover why "Don't get into making music for any other reason than to enjoy it." is good advice www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newmusic #interview
"All sorts of ideas and contents come up of their own accord, in the shower, kitchen, train, on my bike. Outdoors is the best, where it’s not even ‘work’ at all."
Arno Bohlmeijer shares insights (and two new poems!) for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/10/22/1...
"My stories don’t take place in our exact reality, but rather in skewed-mirror worlds. Especially so, when it comes to writing about places that I love but where I am still very much a visitor."
J. Nevada, for our #10Questions:
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Read @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions where you can discover who said "Try not to use the word 'just' when you're writing lyrics if you need to pad out a line to make up the syllables. It's lazy and repetitive." #GoodAdvice www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... @mattkik.bsky.social
"In America, students are often taught to delink writing from matters of the stomach. I believe this breeds new forms of hunger, new forms of illiteracy, and new false freedoms."
Our #10Questions with S. Shreyas is out now: massreview.org/2025/10/13/1...
Read @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with #hubrisdebris www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... and discover why "I NEED my music to sound homemade..." #newmusic
"I think that imagined place is the place of dreaming, the way that we write toward our precise and (im)possible utopias, another way of saying, toward a place that can hold all of us."
janan alexandra for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/10/08/1...
Read this weeks @newartistspotlight.bsky.social #10Questions with #SteveLazaro and discover where he heard this sage advice: "You've just got to keep moving on, because everyone thinks their music's crap, until someone else says they love it." www.newartistspotlight.org/post/10-ques... #newmusic
"Work is a common theme in my writing, not just FALLOUT. I’m interested in how our jobs shape us, trap us, save us—and the weirder the job, the better."
Meg Toth, author of FALLOUT (MR 66.2), writes on jobs, ghost stories, and Cleveland for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/10/01/1...
I've done it for a few years now, usually keeping my answers short. It's an interesting record of my life, throwing spotlights on a few things that move me.
Anybody else doing this or similar practices?
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Because I was away for a few days, I've started answering 10Q only today. It's a chance for reflection, prompting you one question per day over a period of 10 days. For instance, "How would you like to improve yourself and your life next year?" or "Describe a significant experience that has […]
