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I Freed Myself from Needing to Make Sense: A Conversation with Leila Chatti

I’ve learned by now my mind is smarter than I am, than my conscious self—it’s doing all sorts of things in there, unbeknownst to me. I often tell my students that the poem knows better than I do, and so I shouldn’t be arrogant enough to think I’m in control.

Hope and Rapture in the Anthropocene: A conversation with Julie Carrick Dalton

. . . fall in love with honey bees, or fall in love with the forest . . .

Loving the questions: Religion and poetry with Jennifer Michael Hecht

Thinking in terms of the poetry of your life is about noticing that you are one of the sentient beings in a universe with billions of galaxies, and your experience is the universe knowing itself and it is weird and messy and painful but it matters.

The Spiritual Fact of Our Oneness: A Conversation with Charif Shanahan

“The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Of all the things we could do with our lives, why write poems?”

Strength and Feeling in Motion: A conversation with Henri Cole about Gravity and Center

Horses are a nice metaphor for the sonnet’s strength and feeling in motion. Beauty and violent power come together in an animal form. When I write, I have the feeling of being a rider. As the poem gallops forward, I am knocked about.

A reflection on reflection: An interview with Katherine Indermaur

I did some research on how the vertical slash was used in different contexts, and fell in love with the Sheffer stroke.

A story is like a nomad: An Interview with Geetanjali Shree

We must return again and again to the whole issue of hegemony of the English language

When The Pipes Inspired the Poets: A conversation with the Boiler House Poets Collective

The Boiler House held a magic, as it turned out, for all of us, with its sound installation clanging and pinging in the background, sun slanting through the pipes, pigeon feathers drifting, an occasional passerby pausing to listen.

Men Haunting Men: A conversation with Richard Mirabella

Maybe being haunted is just feeling something crooked nearby

Leave what you can, take the rest: An Interview with Idra Novey

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

The Freedom of Form & Re-Entering Myths: An interview with A.E. Stallings

Our lives may seem to be lived on the small scale of the everyday but, because we are mortal, because ultimately everything is at stake, also play out against something universal and important.

The page is the stage: An interview with Junious Ward

“If you’re gonna push form, you’ve got to really push it.”

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