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 If You have To Go (Graywolf Press), Ford has been honored by the Lannan Literary Fellowship, and Larry Levis Prize. Her poems have appeared in The …
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 e-mails, indicating much interest. There were also numerous requests to continue this series, and to go in more depth on individual poets’ paths and trajectories. In response, …
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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 from the Academy of American Poets, and Human Hours (Graywolf Press, 2018). Her Honors include a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a …
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 writers have impacted your work, your vision? “Some Woman” is a poem about the culture of rape. Now that culture is changing because we write …
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 over 25 years since Amaral’s first published volume of poetry and since then her work has been published widely. Amaral’s work has been translated into …
Interview with Ana Luísa Amaral by Valorie Ruiz and Matt Fowler Read More »
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 feel this new book reflects your style and voice? How is it different, for you, from your debut? Hustle, from a narrative perspective, looks over the …
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: Morris and Rebecca Black. Morris came to the U.S. from Kovno (Kaunas) in 1904 or 1905, when he changed his surname from Svarts (we think; …
Interview with Malachi Black, by Kerry Shawn Keys Read More »
Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar, Kwame Dawes, Alfonso García Cortéz, Monica Ávila, Joan Kane, and Piotr Florczyk and other poets in conversation with Ilya Kaminsky
An Interview with Victoria Chang By Carlos Kelly The Boss contains a heavy connection to your father and family throughout the collection, but what was the initial thought or motivation to utilize the character of the boss? The character of the boss was probably the first thing that emerged when I started writing—it …
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In this new series, editors of the Poetry International Chapbook Series and Poetry International staff will discuss the process of running a contemporary press and literary journal: from collaborating with fellow editors to navigating design technologies to promoting a new publication, and all the spaces in between. Literary Magazines and the Editorial Process with James …
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Parts of this interview appeared translated into Lithuanian in the cultural press in Lithuania. Briefly explain how you – an American writer and traveler – have ended up living in Lithuania. How has your perception of and relationship to Lithuania change since you came here? Could you tell us one most striking thing, place or …
ԵՍ ՈՒԶՈՒՄ ԷԻ ԿԱՌՈՒՑԵԼ ՔԱՂԱՔ Նրանց համար ովքեր տուն չունեն նրանց համար ովքեր տուն ունեն բայց հոգնել են արդեն դրանից եւ ուզում են տուն չունենալ Նրանց համար ովքեր կորցնելու ոչինչ չունեն արդեն կամ էլ չեն ունեցել երբեւէ նաեւ նրանց համար ովքեր էնքան շատ բան ունեն կորցնելու որ հոգնել են արդեն վախենալուց Ես ուզում էի կառուցել …
Interview CD: I’m curious to know when you first started to write poetry. SS: Childhood. I was seven, or eight I guess. Seven would be good. Soon I started to save poems. My grandmother Caddie was influential because she had a typewriter (unlike my mother or father). She typed up my early efforts on her pokey little Underwood …
Interview with Stephen Sandy Conducted by Chard deNiord Read More »
STEP BY STEP I La tarde en que debía tomar el tren camino de Londres y Cambridge, dejando al fin Escocia, fui por última vez a la universidad y, deteniendome en el “quadrangle”, miré bien a todos lados (a la antipatía, lo mismo que a la simpatía, también puede en algun ocasión complacerle el demorar la …
STEP BY STEP I La tarde en que debía tomar el tren camino de Londres y Cambridge, dejando al fin Escocia, fui por última vez a la universidad y, deteniendome en el “quadrangle”, miré bien a todos lados (a la antipatía, lo mismo que a la simpatía, también puede en algun ocasión complacerle el demorar la …
Brooklyn Bridge From the other side of what I say there lies a bridge to arrive at my word Every time I utter my name my name returns to me disfigured Whenever I say water, the water returns as wind the wind fire, fire my true name but much more full, and much more strange. …
Constantinopla [The Church of St. Salvador of Chora] Edirnekapi: Four centuries ago a Byzantine Church Outside the walls of Theodosius: concrete & ruins & dust. My grandfather always at Our Lady of Carmen at eleven reflecting? listens to mass? Light falls from windows upon frescos. It’s Jesus. Multiplying loaves of bread. Jesus. There are fish. …
Interview and Poems by Alí Calderón Translated by Karla Cordero and Ana Bosch Read More »
Smoker’s black exhales saturate sea’s Abyss: Smoker’s black exhales saturate sea’s abyss: in nightmares, whose chromosomes, are carved with human instinct of secrets, secrets: what makes us– us? the love of bodies, of freckles, of imperfections, of us, the song now soothes–who? wild souls?–us. Les fumeurs noirs ont fécondé les abymes marins Les fumeurs noirs …
Two Poems by Guy Jean Translated by Alyssabeth Knerr Read More »
In the final pass of the Andes
where the path is full of rocks
tumbling away like a waterfall.
As if smashing hunger and poverty,
and in the gas stations below
is a calm silence in the air
Photo by Anoush Ajemyan Mkrtchyan 1) What are your poetic origins, influences, goals? Treating register rolls as films, I drew cartoons profusely, in my early teens, longing to become an animator of Walt Disney’s caliber. Then it was Fidget, a rock band I co-established with Emil Petrosyan; then, in my late teens, it was Lege …
KAREN KARSLYAN: POET, TRANSLATOR, MUSICIAN, NOVELIST, VISUAL ARTIST. Read More »