Pool Party is the brainchild of writers/artists/lovers Ryan-Ashley Anderson and Kevin Maloney. They wanted to create a reading series and online mag that evoked the nostalgia of 70s horror and gothic fiction—pool parties gone wrong; suburban drugs, sex, and murder; and the weird shit kids do when their parents aren’t looking. Pool Party is the place to come if you want to feel a lot nostalgic, a little bit bad, and a fair amount of heart-wrenching passion and regret.
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It’s Outside the Paper: In conversation with Samiya Bashir on her poetry collection, I Hope This Helps
by Naya Clark//| The Deep EndInterview by Naya Clark Samiya Bashir’s critically-lauded, multimodal poetry collection, I Hope This Helps (2025, NightBoat Books), begins with a quote from actress Niecy Nash-Bett’s 2024 Emmy award acceptance speech: “I want to thank me for believing in me …” This bold tribute, which echoes Snoop Dogg’s words six years prior during his Hollywood Walk…