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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