Second in a three-part interview with roboticist Daniel Williams and master craftsperson Justin Green, collaborators on SACRFICE: Can you trust a stone? at the University of Melbourne — More and more, we interact with artificial intelligence online. For good reason, most of us are wary of those interactions. We may wonder what will come of our data, our interactions, or our creations. We may wonder whether we can believe what information we receive from AI, given its issues…

First in a three-part interview with roboticist Daniel Williams and master craftsperson Justin Green, collaborators on SACRFICE: Can you trust a stone? at the University of Melbourne. — More and more, we interact with artificial intelligence online. For good reason, most of us are wary of those interactions. We may wonder what will come of our data, our interactions, or our creations. We may wonder whether we can believe what information we receive from AI, given its issues…

Interview with Kendra Preston Leonard, PhD, author of Grab — Poetry gives scholars a way to manifest their insights into their subjects in thought-provoking ways to audiences outside academia. T.D. Walker spoke with Kendra Preston Leonard about her poetry collection Grab and how her research shaped the poems in her book. Interstellar Flight Press: Grab begins with “Gretchen at the…

Interview with Emily Hockaday, author of Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) — Grief opens us to ask questions of ourselves and of our world as a way of contending with deep loss. The poems in Emily Hockaday’s Naming the Ghost carry us through that process of questioning and give us space to consider how we see losses through what can and cannot…

Interview with Jessy Randall, author of Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science — “I felt furiously angry as I researched the scientists, and I was constantly tempted to basically set my notebook on fire out of rage and frustration.” One of the aims of science fiction that gives us hope about the future of humanity is to show equality in access to education…

Interview with LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Author of Apprenticed to the Night (Beacon Books, 2023) —

Interview with Jeannine Hall Gailey, Author of Flare, Corona (BOA Editions, 2023) — Much about the COVID pandemic seemed as if it could have been out of a science fiction story. And yet, for so many of us, the years since the pandemic began have been ones of deep personal reflection. Jeannine Hall Gailey explores the intersection of the personal and the dire…

Interview with Melissa Ridley Elmes, author of Arthurian Things, a Collection of Poems — The raw material of this collection comes from my decades-long critical and personal reading both of the scholarship on Arthuriana and of the literature itself, so I’m absolutely certain it’s informed by the ideas I’ve already been preoccupied with and my views of the various iterations of the legend. If…

An interview with Deborah L. Davitt, author of Bounded by Eternity — I particularly want readers to question their assumptions of their own identities, their reactions to the world around them, as based on their memories. Memories are malleable. Changeable. More so than we like to admit. The poems in Deborah L. Davitt’s Bounded by Eternity lead us to ask: what might…