Carolyn Kizer Cracks Her Wit: Postcard From Paris
“We can’t say it’s the end of irony,” said poet Carolyn Kizer, in light of the terrorist attacks on September 11. “It’s the beginning. But irony is seldom appreciated by American culture.”
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An Interview With Poet Robert Creeley
With over sixty books published during a career that spans more than half a century, Robert Creeley is one of the most prolific and influential figures in American poetry. This month New Directions is publishing Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994, which collects three of Creeley’s previous books.
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An Interview With Poet Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman's new book of poems, Cascadia, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in October. In it, Hillman returns to the ancient landform that preceded present-day California to excavate a poetics of place. Cascadia is a study of geologic as well as internal space, and the seismic shifts that occur in time through each.
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Where Silence Sends Word: A Profile of Gillian Conoley
In such a saturated culture, how can a poet clear away uninfluenced space from which to write a poem that is authentic, original?
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The Very Persistent Mapper of Happenstance: A Q&A With George Saunders
The author of the story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia talks about working in a slaughterhouse, Monty Python as validation, earnestness as the enemy, and his uncanny ability to find humor in unlikely places.
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Free River Press: Giving Voice to the Forgotten
Bob Wolf's Publishing House.
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Joy Harjo: An Interview
Poet Joy Harjo talks about how the women’s movement, jazz, and Native American and mainstream U.S. culture have influenced her work.