Announcing the Winner of Our Biennial Poetry Contest
We are very please to announce the winning poet, selected by Dawn Lundy Martin
Labor and Delivery: Carmen Winant Interviewed by Jen Schwarting
Repurposing photographs of childbirth.
Cinema as Sacred Space: Josephine Decker Interviewed by Alex Zafiris
The director on ritual, the pain of creation, and her new film, Madeline’s Madeline.
The poet on the power of naming, the freedom of writing, and when to carry and let go of grief.
Sculpture inside and outside the institution.
He used a specific verb, which I forgot to write down: screw. With the bottles screwed into your breasts… It all started with screwing, what does he make of that.
The poet on erasing Dracula’s misogyny, the politics of literary appropriation, and the beauty of long poems.
BOMB 141,
Fall 2017
Featuring interviews with Amit Dutta, Lisa Sanditz, Nina Katchadourian, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne Bocanegra, Adrienne Truscott, Marcus Steinweg, Mike Wallace, and Lucy Ives.
BOMB 142,
Winter 2018
Featuring interviews with Milford Graves, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Meredith Monk, Jim Hodges, Lucy Dodd, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Jlin, Cate Giordano, Don Mee Choi, Christian Hawkey, and Friederike Mayröcker.
BOMB 143,
Spring 2018
Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
BOMB 144,
Summer 2018
Featuring interviews with Chris Martin, Cy Gavin, Tauba Auerbach, Sam Hillmer, Amy Jenkins, Florian Meisenberg, John Akomfrah, Simone Forti, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Anna Moschovakis
New Books
The publications and authors worth highlighting.
The novelist on her loss of faith, youth culture, cult leaders, and spending time with syllables.
The author of The Third Hotel on existential noir, travel psychology, and what horror film theory can reveal about the human condition.
Scientists, motherhood, and other probings of the female body.
After The Velvet Underground, a poetic underworld.
I don’t think an artist and a shaman actually have that much difference if we go back, way back, in time. Today, it’s just gotten so wrapped up in intellectual stuff that we’ve gotten far away from a basic truth about what artists do in the world.
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Lucy Dodd