Of Things Never Told Before
On myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
Interviews
Other People’s Voices
How sound can bridge the past and present and what books of poetry have in common with websites | Zach Bernstein and Paisley Rekdal talk about her digital project West: A Translation
Poetry Unbound
On the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar
Mike Chasar
Eastern-European Poets on Poetry & War
In this forum from our archives poets from Ukraine, Poland, and other east European countries consider poetry’s power in the face of war and how the 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea affected their lives and work
Celebrating the Natural World
The human, the nonhuman, a love of revising, and the sorrow necessary in celebrating the natural world | Tami Haaland talks to Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A Head Full of Music
On songs, the state, sandhill cranes, and editing in her head | Allison Hedge Coke talks to Tami Haaland
Syntax Grammar and Power
“I wanted to create a very different relationship with grammar.” | Dora Malech and Kristina Marie Darling talk about Malech’s new book.
A Conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin by D.S. Waldman
“The poem, for me, is an embodied entity. It emerges from the body in the first place and, in the space of the reading or the performance, it returns to the body–“
Interview with CMarie Fuhrman and Dean Rader: Gatekeeping: Who Gets to be Heard & Read?
This deeply meditative interview with CMarie Fuhrman and Dean Rader, editors of the 2019 collection, Native Voices, raises essential questions about the literary canon. Who gets to decide visibility? Who gets the platform to give voice to experience? What bodies are fortunate enough to be consumed by poetry? Or in Hari Alluri’s words, “Whose bodies are consumed by poetry? …
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In Conversation with Brazilian Poet Angélica Freitas
Angélica Freitas is an acclaimed Brazilian writer whose poetry addresses topics of feminism and LGBTQ issues, in dialogue with poetics of the past. Her second collection of poetry, Um Útero É do Tamanho de Um Punho (A Womb is the Size of a Fist) recently became the subject of an attempted censorship in the state …
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DISABILITY POETICS: CONVERSATION WITH SHEILA BLACK
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 much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this work. Our response was to start a series of individual interviews with poets exploring Deaf and …
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Interview with Ellen Doré Watson
Ellen Doré Watson is the author is five poetry books, including pray me stay eager, published in 2018. She is also a well-known translator, most notably from the Portuguese of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado, for which she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, among other honors. Watson’s work has appeared widely, from The …
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID BAKER
David Baker was born in Maine in 1954 and spent his childhood in Missouri. He received PhD from the University of Utah and has won fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently a Professor of English and the Thomas B. Fordham Chair …
Conversation with Tina Chang
Tina Chang is the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family. She is the author of two previous collections of poetry—including Half-Lit Houses, a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award—and coeditor of the seminal anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. …
Conversation with Karen Head
On Negotiating Time and Place: A Conversation with Karen Head on her forthcoming fifth book of poetry, Lost on Purpose, Iris Press, 2019 Karen Head’s new collection of poems, Lost on Purpose, is both a powerful meditation on the poetics of memory and travel–and an unforgettable sequence of love lyrics. The poems are playful, memorable, …
Interview with Jeffrey Angles by Christin Lacey
Jeffrey Angles is an award-winning poet and translator. Born in Ohio, Angles first became enamored with Japan during a visit as a high school exchange student. He began translating as a graduate student and earned his Ph.D in Japanese literature with what would serve as the basis of his book Writing the Love of Boys: …
Conversation with Tess Taylor
RIFT ZONE, Taylor’s third book, is due out in 2020 from Red Hen Press. Her poems trace literal and metaphoric fault lines between past and present; childhood and adulthood; what is and what was. Circling an ordinary California suburb lying along the Hayward fault, these poems include redwood trees, hummingbirds, buried streams, and the otherworldy cries of new babies. They are also records of …
Jacquelyn Pope Portfolio: Six Poems and a Conversation
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, at least in the mainstream culture. On the other side, the lyric poems that do seem to be published seem to favor the more obscure …
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London Calling: A Conversation with Collin Kelley
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 from DJ Shadow’s trip-hop masterpiece, the collection is filled with longing—for connection and for geography—against the backdrop of America and London. Along the way we …
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Deaf Poetics: A conversation with Josephine Dickinson
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 much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this work. Our response was to start a series of individual interviews with poets exploring Deaf poetics. The …
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