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Travel even briefly through one of poet Robert Kelly's dream geographies and you'll find what his many readers over the past four decades have long known: Kelly offers more modes of imaginative transport than a contingent of thrill-seeking engineers could design. His new collection, Lapis, has just been published.
Literary journal editors, those underpaid, overworked masters of small-circulation poetry and fiction magazines, are often the first to publish a writer who goes on to become the Next Big Thing in contemporary American literature. In this survey 14 editors tell their stories from the front lines…and offer advice on how to stand out amid the flux of their overflowing in-boxes.
Bruce Willis he's not, but poet Bob Hicok really is a diehard. Not because he worked as an automotive-die designer. It's more because he's willing to "shoot a bazillion foul shots" before he calls it a day.
Trailblazing author Pat Barker discusses her writing process, how she creates characters, and the darker themes in her novels.
Fifty years ago Shirley Hazzard's parents ended her love affair with a young army officer, a "walking anthology of poetry," by moving their family from Nanking to New Zealand. The National Book Award–winning novelist famously went on to marry the renowned Francis Steegmuller, but she knew one day she would return to her first love. Indeed, she did, in the recently published The Great Fire.
Maxine Hong Kingston discusses The Fifth Book of Peace, which she describes as a "nonfiction-fiction-nonfiction sandwich."
