Interview with a Poet

Poet and Translator Dong Li on the “Common Tongue of Poetry”

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Orange Tree

 
By Peter Mishler  July 7, 2023
Interview with a Poet

André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

By Peter Mishler  June 2, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker on the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry

By Peter Mishler  April 17, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

By Peter Mishler  March 15, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Language and the Interaction of Colonialism and Patriarchy

By Peter Mishler  February 23, 2023
Interview with a Poet

Sandra Simonds on Piecing Together Poetic Puzzles

By Peter Mishler  November 10, 2022
Interview with a Poet

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

By Peter Mishler  August 4, 2022
Interview with a Poet

Nathaniel Mackey on Evoking John Coltrane and the Visual Delights of Poetry

By Peter Mishler  June 25, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Kate Durbin on Finding Beauty in the Possessions That Possess Us

By Chelsea Hodson  May 10, 2021
Interview with a Poet

The Poetics of the Body: An Interview With CM Burroughs

By Peter Mishler  April 28, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Ryo Yamaguchi on Finding—and Making—a Life as a Poet

By Peter Mishler  March 25, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Poet Vijay Seshadri on Loss and Writing as Therapy

By Peter Mishler  November 9, 2020
Interview with a Poet

Poet Pamela Sneed On Artistic Process, Black Queer Writers, and Her Latest Work

By Peter Mishler  October 27, 2020
Interview with a Poet

Will Harris on the Idea of Poetry as Interconnectedness

By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2020
Interview with a Poet

Tommye Blount: No One Gets Off the Hook in My Poems

By Peter Mishler  May 14, 2020
Interview with a Poet

Victoria Chang on the Self
and Its Many Deaths

By Peter Mishler  February 21, 2020
Interview with a Poet

Hai-Dang Phan on Poetic Distance and Reenacting the Past

By Peter Mishler  August 13, 2019
Interview with a Poet

A.E. Stallings: ‘I’m Optimistic About Poetry, but That’s Maybe the Only Thing’

By Peter Mishler  July 30, 2019

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