Q&A: Jim Tierney’s Inspired Illustrations
A day after he finalized the last of his illustrations for our January/February 2011 issue, Jim Tierney, an illustrator and designer at Penguin, spoke about the inspiration behind his work.
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Q&A: Legendre Starts New MA in U.K.
American novelist Thomas Legendre, who has worked with British poet Matthew Welton to develop a new creative writing program at the University of Nottingham, speaks about what makes study in England unique and what writers can gain from attending the new graduate program.
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Q&A: Halpern's Enduring Poetry Series
On the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of the National Poetry Series, Halpern speaks about both its history and its future.
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Q&A: Nelson to Descend Soul Mountain
After six years of running Soul Mountain Retreat at her own home in East Haddam, Connecticut, founder and executive director Marilyn Nelson speaks about her experience as she enters her final year at the helm of the unique retreat.
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Q&A: Chip Kidd Covers Our Inspiration
Chip Kidd, whose famous designs have graced over eight hundred book jackets in the last twenty-four years, speaks about the cover he created for this issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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Q&A: Shenoda Fosters CalArts Diversity
Matthew Shenoda speaks about his new role as the Assistant Provost for Equity and Diversity at California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, part of an institute-wide initiative to promote intercultural awareness and develop support mechanisms for students from varying ethnic backgrounds.
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Q&A: Riker Rides Dalkey Into the Future
Associate director Martin Riker speaks about developments at Dalkey Archive, the independent press that recently announced a new distribution deal with Norton and the launch of a new European fiction anthology this fall.
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Q&A: Why Junker Can’t Quit ZYZZYVA
Last August, Howard Junker announced that at the end of 2009 he would retire as editor of ZYZZYVA, the literary journal he founded in San Francisco in 1985. Six months later, in February, he rescinded his resignation. Junker recently spoke about his change of heart and the future of the magazine.
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Q&A: April Ossmann’s Alice James Fix
April Ossmann, who recently stepped down as executive director of Alice James Books, the Farmington, Maine–based nonprofit cooperative poetry press founded in 1973, spoke about her time at Alice James from her home in Post Mills, a snowy hamlet in eastern Vermont.
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Q&A: Dan Chiasson Chooses Carefully
Dan Chiasson, who last fall succeeded former poet laureate Charles Simic as a poetry editor of the Paris Review, recently spoke—by phone from a New York City taxicab—about his new role at the venerable journal.
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