Interviews Archive
“When You Read These Poems, They’re Yours”: An Interview With Leslie Harrison
Leslie Harrison’s poems are meditative and thoughtful, yet fleet-footed, quick to change direction. They show us a mind in motion, questing and questioning, wrestling with complex feelings and ideas.
Imprint(ing)s: An Interview With William Kemp of words(on)pages
William Kemp is a founding editor at Toronto-based words(on)pages, an organization that self-describes as one “that supports, promotes, and engages emerging writers in Canada through workshops, publications, a prize, and a reading series.”
Process and Place: An Interview With Jessie Chaffee
I attended Jessie Chaffee’s reading at DC’s Politics & Prose, where she read from her debut novel Florence in Ecstasy (Unnamed Press, May 2017). Afterward we decided to extend our conversation about her process and the role of place in her work into an interview.
Art & Politics: An Interview with Author & Best American Short Stories Editor Heidi Pitlor
What is the function of the artist and writer in a troubled society? What is our role in these uncertain and precarious political times?
Shut Up and Breathe: An Interview With Marcus McCann
From a handful of chapbooks through his first two collections, poet Marcus McCann’s work has become more confident and more willing to experiment, managing an incredibly precise linguistic and lyric gymnastics. Here, he talks about his latest collection, Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe.
The Creative Process of Translating Text: An Interview With Dr. Erdağ Göknar
I spoke with Dr. Erdağ Göknar, an award-winning scholar, poet, and translator, about how his diaspora background contributes to his work, his approach to translation as a creative act, and the limiting factor of editorial expectations in publishing Turkish texts in translation.
“These Poems Wanted to be Written Without Titles”: An Interview With Allison Benis White
Allison Benis White’s prose poems evoke a world of loss and wonder, in which the mysteries of our daily lives are illuminated as a story that finds its shape in the telling. She is the author of three books of poetry, Self-Portrait With Crayon, Small Porcelain Head, and, most
“Living Imaginarily Under Truthful Circumstances”: An Interview With Elizabeth Powell
Elizabeth A. I. Powell’s poems are adventures in language; they travel freely across the borderlands of genre and bring the reader along for an inventive, unforgettable ride.
The Narrative Conscience: An Interview With Connie May Fowler
Connie May Fowler’s new memoir, A Million Fragile Bones, is the story of finding home on a Florida sandbar, a migratory crossroads for monarchs, hummingbirds, purple martins, where “dragonflies stir the air with the metallic thrum of transparent wings.”
Writing as Activism: An Interview With Jay Baron Nicorvo
I first heard Jay Baron Nicorvo give a reading in the summer of 2009. Last month, Jay’s debut novel The Standard Grand released from St. Martin’s Press. I had the chance to chat with Jay about his work and its intersection with this moment in American history.