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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness and Brandon Shimoda’s Evening Oracle

There’s a catch to Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness (Norton & Company, 2015), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize: the kind of catch that throws one off guard for all its quiet fury, beauty,...

Satpreet Kahlon: ‘Art is in my bones, in my veins.’

There’s a quality of the tumbleweed in each of Indian American multimedia artist Satpreet Kahlon’s pieces: They start from a concept, a wish, and start tumbling and gathering in fistfuls of crinkled cloth scraps,...

Papercut and multimedia artist Lauren Iida:‘Heaven to me is an Exacto knife and a...

Encountering one of Seattle-based, Japanese American artist Lauren Iida’s paper cut pieces is like emerging from a darkroom into a day blinding bright and stark with outline and shadow.