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Peter Mishler

Peter Mishler
Peter Mishler is the author of two collections of poetry, Fludde (winner of Sarabande Books' Kathryn A. Morton Prize) and Children in Tactical Gear (winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in Spring 2024). His newest poems appear in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Iowa Review, and Granta. He is also the author of a book of meditative reflections for public school educators from Andrews McMeel Publishing.


Betsy Fagin on the Undivided Self, Mystical Verse, and Reimagining Hemingway and Kerouac

The Author of “Self-driving” in Conversation with Peter Mishler
December 17, 2024  By Peter Mishler
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The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Words on Edge”
September 27, 2024  By Peter Mishler
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Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Underworld Lit”
September 11, 2024  By Peter Mishler
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Poetry’s Mysterious Power: A Conversation With Dara Barrois/Dixon

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of “Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts”
July 25, 2024  By Peter Mishler
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“Tunnel Vision.” A Poem by Peter Mishler

From His New Collection, “Children in Tactical Gear”
May 3, 2024  By Peter Mishler
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Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

Peter Mishler Talks to One of the Editors of Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate
November 28, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us
October 25, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Poet and Translator Dong Li on the “Common Tongue of Poetry”

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Orange Tree
September 18, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Poet Sara Deniz Akant Talks Uncertainty, Turkish Identity, and Embracing Cringe

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of Hyperphantasia
July 7, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of High Desert
June 2, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Dereliction
April 17, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore
March 15, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Language and the Interaction of Colonialism and Patriarchy

The Author of Heritage Aesthetics in Conversation with Peter Mishler
February 23, 2023  By Peter Mishler
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Sandra Simonds on Piecing Together Poetic Puzzles

Peter Mishler Talks with the Author of Triptychs
November 10, 2022  By Peter Mishler
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Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

Peter Mishler Talks With the Author of Often, Common, Some, And Free
August 4, 2022  By Peter Mishler
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“Creating Lines in Response.” An Interview with Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin

Peter Mishler Talks with the Author of Blood on the Fog
December 1, 2021  By Peter Mishler
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A Year Later: Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Reflect on Political Radicalism, Inventive Aesthetics, and the Publication of Their Anthology

Peter Mishler Talks to the Editors of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
October 28, 2021  By Peter Mishler
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Nathaniel Mackey on Evoking John Coltrane and the Visual Delights of Poetry

Peter Mishler Talks with the Contemporary American Poet and National Book Award-Winner
June 25, 2021  By Peter Mishler
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The Poetics of the Body: An Interview With CM Burroughs

Peter Mishler in Conversation With the Author of Master Suffering
April 28, 2021  By Peter Mishler
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Ryo Yamaguchi on Finding—and Making—a Life as a Poet

Peter Mishler Talks with the Author of The Refusal of Suitors
March 25, 2021  By Peter Mishler
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