Best Barbarian

Dean Rader has written, edited, or co-edited 11 books, including Works &amp; Days, winner of the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize&nbsp;and&nbsp;Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. He is a&nbsp;2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and was just named a finalist for the Nona Balakian Award for excellence in reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.&nbsp; He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.

Dean Rader

Victoria Chang is the author of&nbsp;OBIT,&nbsp;which received the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her latest book is&nbsp;Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch’s MFA Program.

Victoria Chang

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Roger Reeves’s “Best Barbarian”

Two Roads: Poetry Reviews in Dialogue

Requeening

All the Flowers Kneeling

Philomath

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of First Books: Amanda Moore’s “Requeening,” Paul Tran’s “All the Flowers Kneeling,” and Devon Walker-Figueroa’s “Philomath”

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Dark Traffic

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s “Dark Traffic”

Such Color: New and Selected Poems

The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Tracy K. Smith’s “Such Color: New and Selected Poems” and Arthur Sze’s “The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems”

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Douglas Kearney’s “Sho”

The Renunciations

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of Donika Kelly’s “The Renunciations”

The Earliest Witnesses

Two Roads: A Review-in-Dialogue of G. C. Waldrep’s “The Earliest Witnesses”

Two Poems (A Debt, What Is Modern)

LARB Lit

Victoria Chang is the author of&nbsp;OBIT,&nbsp;which received the&nbsp;Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Her latest book is&nbsp;Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She lives in Los Angeles and is a faculty member within Antioch’s MFA Program.