They Are The Bones: A Conversation with Kelly Link
Going around the world because you can't go through it
Interviews
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The Work We Can Do Only As We Age: A Conversation with Priscilla Long
I approach research dutifully and compulsively.
Broadening the Scope of the Environmental Canon: An Interview with Camille T. Dungy
Some books defy categories. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023) by poet Camille T. Dungy pushes the limits of what readers might expect from…
the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: A Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson
part of my fixation with textured and torqued language . . . stems from growing up in the South, where figurative language isn’t limited to formal literary spaces.
Not every queer story needs to be a coming out story: An Interview with Miah Jeffra
Don’t we often write about what we struggle to understand?
I Never Thought I’d Write a Book Like This: An Interview with Nicole Chung
It's my year of Banana.
The Poem is Second, Living is First: An Interview with Tim Z. Hernandez
Above everything else, people come first.
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.