This iteration of the Fellows' Q&A series features Rebecca Kosick, Senior Lecturer in Translation in the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol (UK), and co-director of the the Bristol Poetry Institute, who was a 2014-15 "Sensation" Mellon Graduate Fellow. Her book, Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects 1950-2010, will be released September 30 from Edinburgh University Press.

2019-20 began as the year of Energy – it became much more. In many ways, the year of Energy landed directly on a fault-line – of race, of class, of health care, of economic justice, of deep structural inequalities – that has been waiting to burst and whose effects and fallout we will be confronting for years to come...