Written for The Luna Collective

The Milk Carton Kids brought the long awaited rain - washing away a prolonged summer of wild-fire smoke, and ushering in fall with lyrical guitars.

Written for The Luna Collective

After eleven long years and two postponed attempts - My Chemical Romance is back, dripping with angst for the modern age.

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a best book of the year by Time, Esquire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Library Journal. A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, Good Talk is currently in development as a television series with Film 44…

Bernardine Evaristo is the author of the 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other, and the recently released memoir Manifesto, which investigates her long journey as a Black writer in a white-dominated industry. Evaristo’s writing is characterized by experimentation, daring, subversion, and challenging the myths of various Afro-diasporic histories and identities, and her books range in genre from poetry to short story to drama to criticism. Q&A with Dr. Carmen Rojas, President and CEO of Marguerite Casey Foundation…

The National Book Award-winning author of seventeen novels, Louise Erdrich’s fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. In her new, powerful, and timely novel, The Sentence, Erdrich explores how the burdens of history, and especially identity, appropriation, exploitation, and violence done to human beings in the name of justice, manifest in ordinary lives today. Q&A with Kristen Millares Young and introduction featuring youth poet Jessica Phan from Evergreen High School…

Since 2012, Jelani Cobb has been contributing his deep knowledge of history and masterful journalism to The New Yorker, bringing nuance and clarity around issues of race, politics, history, and culture. Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, specializing in post-Civil War African American history, 20th-century American politics, and the history of the Cold War. Now, with co-editor David Remnick, he’s releasing The Matter of Black Lives, The New Yorker’s groundbreaking anthology on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Cobb. Q&A with Marcus Harrison Green…

Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize is awarded for two outstanding poems, each written by an Indigenous U.S. poet. The prize is named for Blackfeet and Gros Ventre writer James Welch, whose early poems were featured in Poetry Northwest and who went on to become one of the region’s most important writers.The final judge selects two first-place winners. A small group of finalists is selected for print and/or online publication alongside the winner by writers and editors from partner organizations and the editors of Poetry Northwest…