October 2, 2019
“Earth to celestial yonder”: A Conversation with Poet & Translator Mihaela Moscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), […]
September 29, 2019
Poetic Language & Political Strife: A Conversation with Farooq Ahmed, author of Kansastan
Raised in the great state of Kansas, Farooq Ahmed is a graduate of the Columbia University Creative Writing Program and of Brown University, where he studied biochemistry. He is a […]
September 18, 2019
“To explore the many voices you have”: A Conversation with Sheryl St. Germain
Sheryl’s poetry books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa (both chapbooks)Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, The Journals of Scheherazade), and Let it Be a Dark […]
September 3, 2019
“Our relation to human precarity”: A Conversation with H.L. Hix
H.L. Hix’s recent books include a poetry collection, Rain Inscription; an edition, with Julie Kane, of selected poems of contemporary Lithuanian poet Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė, called Terribly In Love; an essay […]
September 2, 2019
“What it means to be quarantined”: A Conversation with Scott Chalupa
Scott Chalupa writes and teaches in Columbia, SC, where he earned an MFA at the University of South Carolina. His debut collection of pomes, Quarantine, was released this year by […]
August 29, 2019
“To evoke, provoke, engage and impact”: A Conversation with Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn is Editorial Director for The Adroit Journal, the author of the award-winning debut book of poetry Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do} (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, […]
August 27, 2019
“Poetry can knowingly privilege affect and beauty”: A Conversation with Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly’s most recent publications include The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the chapbook Hymn to Life. His poems have been widely anthologized and […]
August 23, 2019
It Will Be Empowering: An Interview with David Mura, Author of A Stranger’s Journey; Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing
This post is the eighth in a months-long series that explores the topic of craft: what it is, how it has evolved, who has historically had access to it, and […]
August 22, 2019
LITTLE MONSTERS: ON LLAMA SESTINAS & FREE VERSE POETIC FORMS (PART 2)
Read Part 1 here. Looking back now, as August comes to a close, I’m struck by the peculiar strength and joy that came with both writing and engaging in conversation […]
July 23, 2019
Mix-Tape VII: All the Eguanas for What We Can’t Say
There are things happening right now in many families, like my own, too painful to share. So I will share this instead: My husband B spells iguana with an “E.” […]
July 11, 2019
Publisher Spotlight: Rose Solari of Alan Squire Publishing
Rose Solari is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, and the novel, A […]
June 26, 2019
Music and Silence: A Conversation with Kelly J. Beard
Kelly J. Beard’s first full-length memoir, An Imperfect Rapture, won the 2017 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Before becoming an author, Kelly practiced employment discrimination law in the […]