Tag Archives: Poets

Make America Read Again

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: March 10, 2017
The True Flag book

Sadly, the news cycle has been laden with reports and opinings relating to the nightmare Bedlamite regime that hastens over the American Empire.

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Interview: Poet Joanne Dominique Dwyer (Belle Laide)

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: July 17, 2014
Joanne Dominique Dwyer

“Too much of our human existence is based on making money and getting errands done. It’s such a waste of the gift of life, not to celebrate and bring magic and mystery into the everyday.”

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Interview: Angela Jackson-Brown, Author of Drinking from a Bitter Cup

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: January 17, 2014
Angela Jackson-Brown

“So often as writers, our first instinct is to write about some far off distant place that we know nothing about because we think where we came from is not interesting enough.”

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Interview: Poet Jillian Weise (The Book of Goodbyes)

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: December 23, 2013
Poet Jillian Weise

“I’m all for noir. What is a cyborg poet to do? If I’m comic, then I play into the carnival show. If I’m tragic, then I reinforce centuries of pity for the disabled figure in literature. Noir warps the comic and the tragic.”

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Interview: Rick Benjamin, State Poet of Rhode Island

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: October 22, 2013
Rick Benjamin

“I gravitate toward duplicity in language, simply stated multiple meanings in lines. I have a hard time with differentiating self from other.”

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10 Donald Hall Quotes

By Matt Borondy | Published: September 20, 2013
poet donald hall

“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.”

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Interview: Poet Michael Dickman (Flies)

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: September 17, 2013
Michael Dickman Flies

“What poems make you want to yell from a rooftop? Fall in love and scream your head off? That’s all I really care about.”

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Emerging Poet Interview: Sarah Crossland

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: April 1, 2013
Sarah Crossland

“When I make my poem-things, they’re always fractures because they can’t be the whole world. They can be miniatures, they can be mandalas centered in the self—or an imagined self…”

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Emerging Poet Interview: Caitlin Doyle

By J. Dee Cochran | Published: March 4, 2013
caitlin doyle

“I love the way that structure and content can pull against each other with a tension that ends up taking both in unexpected directions.”

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Author Q&A: Anis Shivani (My Tranquil War and Other Poems)

By Matt Borondy | Published: January 21, 2013
Anis Shivani's My Tranquil War and Other Poems

“Printing is more than a technology. It generates a certain attitude toward the self that is irreplaceable with any other technology. It demands a certain type of writing.”

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Author Q&A: Julianna Baggott (Pure)

By Matt Borondy | Published: March 8, 2012
Julianna Baggott

“Writing, for me, is the daily practice of empathy. Reading should be a practice of empathizing too. Each time we step into another person’s world view, we broaden who we are as people.”

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Major Jackson

By Alexandra Tursi | Published: September 17, 2009
Major Jackson

Major Jackson’s books of poetry include Hoops and Leaving Saturn. The latter was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. His work has appeared in such publications as the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, and The New Yorker.

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Writers on Music: An Interview with Mysterious Skin Author Scott Heim

By Anna-Lynne Williams | Published: June 25, 2008
Scott Heim

"I was just out driving in my car, and five totally different things came on–an old New Order song… a track from the new Portishead record… a Brian Eno Music for Films song… ‘Touch and Go’ by the Cars… and then this campy ’70s disco song called ‘Let’s All Chant.’ I love how this weird mix put me in five different moods within twenty minutes or so."

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Donald Hall

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: December 18, 2006
poet donald hall

Even before he was named Poet Laureate of the United States in June 2006, Donald Hall was a familiar figure in contemporary poetry.

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Interview with a Winner: Erin Bealmear

By Matt Borondy | Published: July 24, 2006

Erin shares her winning strategies and talks about her lack of belief in karma, her extensive fortune cookie collection, and why online dating sites can’t nail down her personality.

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