Tag Archives: Poets

Author Q&A: Vi Khi Nao (Umbilical Hospital)

By Matt Borondy | Published: March 8, 2018

“That book might make you die a little and don’t forget to eat durian ice cream after reading it.”

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Author Q&A: Alan Michael Parker (Christmas in July)

By Matt Borondy | Published: February 20, 2018

“I want to believe that reading tunes the mind, that empathy results from the connections forged between a reader and a character…”

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Make America Read Again

By Robert Birnbaum | Published: March 10, 2017

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

Posted in Infostream |Also tagged Archipelago Books, Keith Olbermann, Literary Translation, Margaret Atwood, Orwell, Roberto Bolaño, Trump Train | Leave a comment

Interview: Poet Joanne Dominique Dwyer (Belle Laide)

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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’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

"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."