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 17, 2019
“Sexy, Messy, Scary, Fun, Overwhelming, and Precarious”: A Conversation with Carley Moore
Carley Moore is a writer, mother, and teacher, and all of these roles find their way into her terrific new novel, The Not Wives (Feminist Press). The book brings together […]
September 16, 2019
What Makes a Character Human?
It’s been almost twenty years ago now since James Wood penned (metaphorically speaking, of course, since I’m sure he used a computer) his famous critique of a genre of literary […]
September 12, 2019
Adventures in Composition and The Essay
This is the first in a series, Adventures in Composition and the Essay. Since I’m teaching the most composition courses I’ve ever taught in a single semester (three), I have […]
September 9, 2019
Defying the Rules of Genre: A Conversation with Molly Gaudry
Molly Gaudry is the author of Desire: A Haunting and We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterweil. She […]
September 7, 2019
To Allow for Wonder: An Interview with Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko, Authors of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology
This post is the tenth 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 […]
September 6, 2019
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry – September
I never expected math to help me become a poet. I wouldn’t say I became a poet to get away from math, but when I declared an English major, I […]
September 3, 2019
“Discovering the shape of the book as it emerges”: A Conversation with Dana Roeser
Dana Roeser is the author of four award-winning books of poetry. The recently published All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press. The Theme of […]
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 3, 2019
Why We Chose It
“Finding a Drawer Full of Drivers’ Licenses:,” by Jennifer L. Knox, appears in the Sept/Oct issue of the Kenyon Review. When I first came across Jennifer L. Knox’s “Finding a […]
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 […]
September 2, 2019
The Grace of Distance: A Conversation with Matthew Thorburn
Matthew Thorburn’s new book of poems, The Grace of Distance, was published by Louisiana State University Press in August. He’s also the author of six previous collections, including the book-length poem […]