The Paris Review 244John Keene on the Art of Fiction: What my countereducation said at a very basic level was, You have value. Black people around the world are the center, theyre not the margin. Sharon Olds on the Art of Poetry: If I had to choose between a poem being therapeutic and it being a better poem, Id want it to be a better poem. Prose by Caleb Crain, Lydia Davis, Rachel B. Glaser, James Lasdun, Juliana Leite, Diane Oliver, and Jamie Quatro.