December 11, 2018
“We transform among chaos”: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American writer and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Guernica and elsewhere. Her poetry collections have won the Arab American Book Award and […]
December 5, 2018
An Accidental Memoirist: The Education of a Young Poet by David Biespiel
Sze-Lorrain: In the first chapter of your latest book of prose, The Education of a Young Poet, you write: Perhaps the hardest thing about my education as a poet is […]
December 3, 2018
Associate Spotlight: Samantha Culbert ’19
Our Associates work hard behind the scenes to review submissions, to copyedit pieces published on KROnline, to help coordinate outreach and community events. They are among the most passionate and […]
November 28, 2018
“Beauty is embedded in the impulse”: A Conversation with Allison Titus
Allison Titus is the author most recently of SOB STORY (Barrelhouse) and The True Book of Animal Homes (Saturnalia). She embroiders erasures from discarded library books and with the poet […]
November 6, 2018
An Interview With Maryse Meijer
Carmen Maria Machado wrote of Maryse Meijer’s Northwood, which comes out this week, “This strange and beautiful novella has everything I want: formal play, myths and fairy tales, the politics […]
October 30, 2018
As Midterm Elections Approach, Poets Respond
For almost a year now, I’ve been teaching at The Speakeasy Project, where I serve as a Poetry Mentor. I have never in my life enjoyed this kind of workshop experience as […]
October 22, 2018
VERVE {IN} VERSE: IN CONVERSATION WITH MONICA LEWIS
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my new poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and off […]
September 30, 2018
Verve {in} Verse: In Conversation with Edward Vidaurre
Note: Verve {in} Verse is my new poet-focused feature here at The Kenyon Review in which I converse with poets about their work and interests both on and […]
September 21, 2018
An interview with Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack Bedell
Dr. Jack Bedell is a Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of nine books, including Call and Response (with Darrell Bourque, 2010), Come Rain, Come Shine […]
August 30, 2018
Present in Process: An Interview with Caryl Pagel
Caryl Pagel’s vision has shaped not only her own poems, essays, books, and chapbooks, but two presses, a literary magazine, and now a new literary fellowship focused on inclusion, equity, […]
August 20, 2018
The International Congress of Youth Voices: An Interview with Jamesha Caldwell
Earlier this month, young writers and activists convened in San Francisco for the inaugural International Congress of Youth Voices. Among those student delegates was 18-year-old “Baltimore-bred poet and storyteller” Jamesha […]
July 25, 2018
“the little song pulsing”: An Interview with Oliver de la Paz
[Continued from “Scaffolding”] * When I read Oliver de la Paz’s poem “Diaspora Sonnet 25,” which the Academy of American Poets featured as its Poem-a-Day selection earlier this month, I […]