When one considers the position of a lyric poet today, it is a strange time. On one side, there is the overwhelming popularity of the narrative mode in contemporary poetry,…
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Interviews
Atlanta-based poet and novelist Collin Kelley’s third full-length collection, Midnight in a Perfect World, threads us into a journey of navigating the hungers of love and desire. Borrowing its title…
Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability in early 2018 (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails, indicating…
Katie Ford is a brilliant poet whose work has received wide acclaim for its music, and its range of emotional intelligence and spiritual depth. Author of several poetry collections, most recently…
Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability earlier this year (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many…
Catherine Barnett is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004), The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012), which won the James Laughlin Award…
Your poem, Some Woman, speaks powerfully, voicing both the outrage, and witness, of what it means to live in our time. Could you please speak about your influences, what other…
Ana Luísa Amaral is a Portuguese writer whose unique perspective on existence and experience allows her to enter into conversation with some of life’s most perplexing passages. It has been…
Hustle by David Thomas Martinez Interview by Celeste Morales In both of your poetry collections you have written movingly, and bravely, about America today. How do you…
1. You have ancestral roots in Lithuania. And perhaps elsewhere nearby. Can you tell us a little bit about this? Yes, of course. My father’s paternal grandparents were both Litvaks:…