May 29, 2016
Know your state poet laureate: Michael Earl Craig, Montana
I was alerted to the fact that Michael Earl Craig was the current Montana Poet Laureate via a Facebook post by the (great) poet Christopher DeWeese (check out his illuminating […]
November 30, 2012
Effaced Ballads: An Interview with Matthew Rohrer, Anthony McCann, and Joshua Beckman on Erasing the Romantics
KR: It makes sense to me why a group of contemporary poets with more avant-garde than conservative aesthetics (though I use those terms with some trepidation) would choose to erase […]
September 29, 2012
The hidden substance of absence: an interview with Brian Henry
Brian Henry’s Lessness is a book that eats itself, a catalog of wounds both festering and healing—though when they do heal, they heal to be torn open again. In Lessness, […]
August 14, 2012
Mary Ruefle’s Magic Madness, Rack, and Honey
Mary Ruefle’s poetry is, more than likely, something you’re familiar with already (if not, here’s KR’s Hilary Plum’s review of her Selected Poems, in which she writes the following: “Of […]
June 14, 2012
Mix Tape: Judge a Book
What are the top ten poetry presses based on their book covers? These small presses are big on design. Seventeen-year-old Sarah Turbin’s paperback cover design for John Green’s 2006 Printz Honor title, […]