Catapult
A Conversation with Jessica J. Lee, Author of ‘Two Trees Make a Forest’
I just can’t stop coming back to this idea of human migrations, family migrations, and plant migrations.
Great Canadian Novel
As if a country was not an ever-tightening feeling in my chest.
As if poetry was not an ever-tightening.
“the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.” —Humphrey Bogart, ‘Casablanca’
My heaven is / the cosmos is what all that space was built for.
On the occasion that i die before i’m thirty,
there must be no mention of my migration or bravery; / if anyone reads poetry, let it only be an ode to green-tea donuts
and though the odds say improbable
they ain’t superhuman. ain’t always able / to save the children the men the country or even your silk presses / but whatever they touch. somebody’s good god blesses.
“Don’t stop drawing”: Maryam Sefati, Catapult Artist for June 2020
“In illustration, we have to understand the writer’s mind as much as we can to make the work.”
For My Friends, in Reply to a Question
I don’t know if I’ll ever go home again.
I don’t know who I’ve seen for the last time.
Poetry and a Truth
Everybody read. I felt it. Poetry and honesty. Poetry and a clarity of feeling. I needed something so badly to be true.
Putting it Down on Paper: Lyli Feng Catapult Artist for May 2020
I feel like it has made the illustrators’ community more connected than I realized before.