Perigee

With their recent tap to edit Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology, and timely receipt of the Poetry Project’s Brannan Prize, Fence editor and poet Michael Chang’s influence on this decade has begun. Writer Zachary Issenberg sits down with Chang to talk process and literary inspiration.

(Left) Hijab Butch Blues book cover: a person wearing a dark hijab and dark pants stands against a backdrop of stripes of horizontal stripes in various colors, including red, orange, green, and black (Right) An image of the author, Lamya H, wearing a hijab and looking back at a grey curtain

Reviews

“A Sense of Spiritual Belonging”: A Review of Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues

Bobuq Sayed

09 Mar 2023

These are the moments of intertextuality that make Hijab Butch Blues a truly remarkable rupture in the literary fold.

Interviews

“I move like a poet in my entire life”: An Interview with Safia Elhillo

Apogee Journal

01 Mar 2023

A conversation with poet Safia Elhillio about her subversive collection, her poetic origin story, and her neverending search for the perfect poem.

Reviews

“Fizzy Romance, Messy Matrixes, and Death Equations”: A Review of Camonghne Felix’s Dyscalculia

Ananda Naima González

21 Feb 2023

The spiral inwards offers a total repossession of the self, while the spiral outwards depicts a hand in the midst of a cosmic reach, apotheosis right around the corner.

Interviews

Evolving Alongside Your Art: An Interview with Fatimah Asghar

Apogee Journal

16 Nov 2022

"Artmaking is the process of evolving. If you allow yourself to really let the art flow through you in the way that you need it to, you will then allow yourself to be changed by the art, rather than trying to impose your will over the art."

Interviews

“Shamelessly Lyrical and Ecstatic”: An Interview with Kemi Alabi

Apogee Journal

27 Oct 2022

"I'm always playing with sound, trying to find the line, and letting language lead me somewhere. I'm satisfied with what I've found when the real shit pops up, and that's what I can revise toward. Black feminist writers taught me the urgency, political potency, and transformative power of truth-telling, and the only truth I'm interested in is accessed through vulnerability—I'm skeptical of its other origins."

Interviews

“The Beauty Is Where the Play Is”: A Conversation with Paige Clark on “She is Haunted”

Apogee Journal

01 Sep 2022

Many of Clark’s protagonists are mixed-race Asian women who grapple with how their heritage shapes their relationships with friends, family members, and lovers. More than a few of them are named Elisabeth (or variations thereof) and share overlapping histories and similar lexicons—as if they were parts of a single consciousness refracted across time and space.

Interviews

The Collective Hungers of Women: K-Ming Chang on “Gods of Want” and the Pluralistic “I”

Apogee Journal

30 Aug 2022

Chang speaks on the poetic and narrative mechanisms at work in her short story collection, Gods of Want.

Announcements

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Apogee Journal

23 Aug 2022

The Apogee team is growing! We’re so excited to be interviewing for eight roles across Apogee Journal and Perigee, our digital vertical.

Announcements Editorial

Do Not Censor Us: An Open Letter

Apogee Journal

14 Aug 2022

The Michigan Department of Corrections rejected the latest issue of Apogee from getting to incarcerated contributors because they claimed it "promotes violence." We call for an end to arbitrary censorship of artistic material in prisons and jails, and stand in solidarity with those struggling to be free in body, mind, and spirit.