William Walsh, the author of six books, is the director of the Etowah Valley low-residency MFA program at Reinhardt University. His collection of poems, Fly Fishing in Times Square, recently won the Editor’s Book Prize at Červená Barva Press. His interviews with Rita Dove, Eamon Grennan, and Ursula Le Guin appeared in past issues of the Kenyon Review. Since 1980, he has resided in Atlanta but plans on moving to Ireland or Colorado, depending upon traffic.
Interview
Sept/Oct 2018
Below the Real World
Introduction Over thirty years ago I was introduced to Laurence Lieberman via his poem “The Coral Reef ” in a contemporary American literature class. Even if you’ve never been […]
Nonfiction
Summer 2006
When Language Fails: An Interview with Eamon Grennan
Eamon Greenan was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1941. Since 1974 he has resided in the United States. He also keeps a house in western Ireland. After more than thirty […]
Interview
Summer 1995
I Am a Woman Writer; I Am a Western Writer: An Interview with Ursula Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin is America’s preeminent writer of science fiction. However, one should not be confused and call her only a science fiction writer, because—as she will tell you—since the publication […]
Interview
Summer 1994
Isn’t Reality Magic? An Interview with Rita Dove
Rita Dove was born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio, and holds a B.A. from Miami University and an M.F.A. from Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has been a Fulbright Scholar studying […]
Interview
Spring 1994
We Are, in Fact, a Civilization: An Interview with Reginald McKnight
Reginald McKnight’s three books include Moustapha’s Eclipse (winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize), I Get on the Bus, and The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. He […]