December 7, 2015
Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen books of poetry. She has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Award, once for the National Book Award, and has […]
November 23, 2015
Jaquira Díaz
Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts. […]
November 10, 2015
Lloyd Schwartz
Lloyd Schwartz is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts–Boston. His poems have been selected for The Pushcart Prize, […]
October 28, 2015
KR Podcast with Maggie Smith
In this month’s podcast, poet Maggie Smith and consulting editor Andrew Grace discuss balancing parenting with the writing life, rewriting fairy tales, the ins and outs of the poetry manuscript […]
October 26, 2015
Beth Bachmann
Beth Bachmann is the author of two books from the Pitt Poetry Series: Temper (2009),winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize and Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Do Not Rise […]
October 12, 2015
Natalie Shapero on the Patricia Grodd Prize
Editor at Large Natalie Shapero judged last year’s Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, an award that recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and […]
October 5, 2015
KR Podcast with Dinty W. Moore
In this month’s podcast, essayist and editor Dinty W. Moore talks to Editor at Large Natalie Shapero about the line between comedy and mockery, the line between truth and memory, […]
September 28, 2015
Keya Mitra
Keya Mitra is currently an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Pacific University and graduated in 2010 with a doctorate from the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, […]
September 15, 2015
David Wojahn
David Wojahn’s most recent poetry collection, World Tree, was published in 2011 by the University of Pittsburgh Press and was the winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall […]
September 8, 2015
KR Podcast with Carl Phillips
In this month’s podcast, Carl Phillips talks to Contributing Editor Andrew Grace about his writing process, whether or not one should want to be called a “poet’s poet” and, by […]
August 31, 2015
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan’s fifth collection of poems, Sycamore, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2016. Poems appearing here are from a manuscript in progress. She teaches poetry at Ohio State University. […]
August 17, 2015
Derek Mong
Derek Mong is the author of Other Romes (Saturnalia Books, 2011) and the poetry editor at Mantis. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Wisconsin, the University […]