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Letter to a Poet: Matthew Olzmann on Writing Humor & Befriending Whales

Matthew Olzmann: [S]uddenly the poem becomes this meditation on mortality, but at no point do you think, “Oh my gosh, Yusef, why is he talking to a maggot or how does he know this maggot? Or what kind of relationship do they have?”

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Celebrate Everything: A Conversation with Kim Fu

An interview with Kim Fu about writing the collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.

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A Palimpsest of Art and Memory: Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha

Jean Huets reviews Hans von Trotha's historical novel, Pollak's Arm.

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Poetry, Performance and the Little Black Dress: An Interview with Michael Chang

A conversation with Michael Chang, "the bad boy of poetry."

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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion

with Jai Hamid Bashir, Joshua Burton, and Nanya Jhingran

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Delicious Anger: A Conversation with Gwen E. Kirby

When I’ve been running regularly and writing regularly, it tends to go well. When I haven’t been running or writing in a while, then I’m bent over heaving for breath and wondering why I ever thought I knew how to write a sentence.

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Defying Gravity: Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars

This book is disarmingly—in fact, unnervingly—amoral.

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Ancient Voices, Language, Cats: Talking with Kaveh Akbar about Pilgrim Bell

To reduce a poem to a purely autobiographical, experiential reading feels limiting to me. To reduce a poem to an “aboutness” seems limiting to me. The poet Allen Grossman said, “A poem is about a thing the way a cat is about a house.”

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