Tough Poets Review 02 - Paperback

by Kathleen Cullen (Editor), Rick Schober (Editor)

Carrying forward the momentum of its debut, Issue 02 of Tough Poets Review features interviews with playwright and activist Karen Malpede (Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths, 2025) and multi-award-winning interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and author Nihaarika Negi (Hunger, 2025), alongside new work from conceptual artist and composer Beatie Wolfe (imPRINTING, 2023-2026), artist and author Elberto Muller (Graffiti On Low or No Dollars, 2023), No Wave icon Lydia Lunch (Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary, 1999), poet and punk oral historian Gillian McCain (Please Kill Me, 1996), essayist and literary critic Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies, 1994), multihyphenate visionary Dario Calmese (founder of The Institute of Black Imagination), visceral sculptor Kennedy Yanko (Epithets, 2025), and artist, poet, and DJ Juliana Huxtable (Mucus in My Pineal Gland, 2017).