Date: July 1, 2015
"Poetry was an attempt to dig into the buried stuff inside a person’s psyche."
preview | full record— Zhang, Jenny
Date: Jun 29, 2015
"In some ways, it's like peeking into the black box of our mind, seeing the puzzle pieces that put our regular perception together."
preview | full record— Weiner, Sophie
Date: April 3, 2016
"For Harrison, whose interior life is like a rich vein she can tap at will, there seems to be no moment, no feeling, too private, peculiar or uncomfortable to render in words."
preview | full record— Fortini, Amanda
Date: September 12, 2016
"Any second now, I would be descending into the pit of my being, seeing serpents, experiencing my own death or birth--or something--and I did not necessarily want that to happen in a windowless vomitorium while a millennial in crazy pants had her first psychotic episode."
preview | full record— Levy, Ariel (b. 1974)
Date: 2016
"The subliminal mind is often depicted as a subterranean network that follows a bifurcating logic rarely touched by the light of day."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: 2016
"The plant's radical desire for what has decayed in the soil stands as a figure for memory, the reaching into dark recesses for what used to be alive."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: December 31, 2016
"The human brain didn't evolve like a piece of sedimentary rock, with layers of increasing cognitive sophistication slowly accruing over time."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: January/February, 2017
"Scarier still for those who have never supported Trump is that he just might colonize their brains, too."
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
Date: February 7, 2017
"This question just made my brain pixelate, and now the inside of my head's a roaring celebration."
preview | full record— Smith, Ali (b. August 24, 1962)
Date: February 18, 2017
"'He lives inside his head, where he runs the same continuous loop of conflict with people he turns into enemies for the purposes of his psychodrama,' says Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)