Our new special projects editor, Kevin Lichty, discusses top secret plans, old radios, and Toy Fox Terriers.

Shelby Heinrich: Special projects editor sounds like a very interesting and important title. What exactly does this title entail?

Kevin Lichty: The special projects editor is job made and remade every year. Essentially, any idea that an editor has (as an individual or as a collective "editors") that falls outside of the traditional pages of HFR and everyone loves, it is the special project editors job to make that idea happen.

Behind the Masthead, InterviewsHaydens FerryApril 14, 2015Behind the Masthead, Special Projects, Kevin Lichty, Issue 57

A Mini-Q&A with Molly Beckwith

This month, we're pleased to share Molly Beckwith's poem, "Dear Girl in the Cactus." You can read it in The Dock.

HFR: I love how this poem explores magical realism in its address to “you.” It speaks to the imagination of the girl and calls attention to the more quiet, realistic line: “In you mother’s circle you are the one / with bad breath, dirty fingernails, red stripes on your shoulders.” Can you speak a little about the pairing of this imagery? I am also interested in the inciting incident of the photograph and how the events begin to overlap in each stanza. Did you begin writing this poem with this incident or did it develop through revision, and did that influence the form?

InterviewsHaydens FerryApril 9, 2015

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This month, we're pleased to share Molly Beckwith's poem, "Dear Girl in the Cactus." You can read it in The Dock.