Tara Ison
Articles
“The Poem Doesn’t Happen Until You Roam Away”: A Conversation with Eloise Klein Healy
The poet laureate of Los Angeles on relearning language.
Haboob
Tara Ison gets stuck in a haboob in Arizona, and reflects on a lifetime of dangerous road trips.
Are We the Butterfly or the Tornado?: Joan Silber’s “Improvement”
Tara Ison finds Joan Silber’s latest novel “Improvement” an astute, lyrical portrait of characters linked by their limits and their truths.
Three Questions for Bernadette Murphy
Tara Ison interviews Bernadette Murphy
The Inexorable Cycle of Life
Cathleen Schine’s painful, beautiful depiction of heroism in the face of an uncertain future offers us a reminder of our own tender vulnerability.
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