I tried to make this stockpile of material — it’s almost like I have a playroom or something. I make this playroom, a recessive space for the other person to come into. 

Diamond Forde sits down with Rosa Castellano on January 22, 2025 to discuss Castellano’s beautiful debut, All is the Telling, available for pre-order and set to drop on April 5th.

“Growing up, I always thought, oh, well I'm good at writing fiction. And poetry is for like Robert Frost and Shakespeare, and not for me…And then when I was in my freshman year of college, I went across the street to the indie bookstore, Odyssey Books by Mount Holyoke, and I got a copy of Not Here by Hieu Min Nguyen, and I got a copy of Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith, and I read them both one after another, and I was like, all right, I'm a poet now. “