Interview: Jonathan Ball

/ Christopher Lawrence / Interviews
I don’t believe in developing a unique, individual style. I think that is death to a serious writer. Unfortunately, it’s also a good business decision.

Interview: Lauren B. Davis

/ Andrew I. Power / Interviews
Work can be impossible. Heck, leaving the house can be impossible! And one is forever having flashbacks of the initiating incident, nightmare

Interview: Diane Schoemperlen

/ Megan Arden Gallant / Interviews
It seems to me that in real life we don’t have much choice about changing as we grow older. Life changes us, for better or for worse.

Interview: Gary Barwin

/ Sarah Rockx / Interviews
Like many Jews, I have a very strong connection to Yiddish without actually knowing how to speak it.

Interview: Timothy Dyke

/ Jaimie Gusman / Interviews
I wrote a story once about an extraordinary and dangerous experience I went through when I was devoted to this drug addict friend of mine.

Everyone Counts: Some Questions for Joanne Kyger

/ Hailey Higdon / Interviews
Joanne Kyger invites everyone in. Her attention to the present is not without acknowledgment of the history that focuses her lens.

Interview: Jaimie Gusman

/ Timothy Dyke / Interviews
Aren't all vessels unreliable? Aren't all memories unreliable? Aren't all experiences seen through the lens of an unreliable narrator?

Interview: Anne Campbell

/ Kristjana Gunnars / Interviews
to me, the "empty "prairie is the space most filled with salient energy, uninterrupted by "things"

Tender and Tough: Letters as Questions as Letters

/ Cheena Marie Lo, Tessa Micaela and Brittany Billmeyer-Finn / Interviews
Tender and Tough is an epistolary project written by three poets, friends and collaborators who met in Oakland in 2011.

Interview: Ben Fama x Abraham Adams

/ Ben Fama / Interviews
I made the “nihilistic” move of a random image order, which feels more like fatalism to me, after I realized the art of this book is where you find it: in the reader.

Against Normalization / Contra la Normalización: An Interview with John Chávez

/ David Buuck / Interviews
One might find everyone is Other to oneself, but that otherness isn’t harmful, isn’t something to shame or fear; rather, that otherness is an opportunity to fully open one’s ear to the music that lies everywhere.

Interview: Ben Fama x Precious Okoyomon

/ Ben Fama / Interviews
It’s this fleshy part of myself / I was stripping away rotting flesh but now i’m stripped and what’s left is this totalizing corrosive structure underneath.

Interview: George Farrah

/ Mary Kasimor / Interviews
I like what Ashbery said about his writing,--"...my work is an open field of narrative possibilities"

“The silence … is our most unyielding Creon”: Five questions for Sara Uribe & John Pluecker about Antígona González

/ David Buuck & translated by John Pluecker / Interviews
To be disappeared is not simply to be killed, but to deny to survivors and loved ones both the evidence required for legal justice as well as embodied rituals of grief and mourning.

Three Bloody Words: an interview with Stephanie Bolster

/ rob mclennan / Interviews
In the graduate class I led this year, of the students who chose to do a presentation or a paper on another poet’s work, all but one chose “poetry” that was presented as prose, or at least partially as prose.

Interview: Catch Business

/ Jon-Michael Frank / Interviews
I was manipulated. I was abused. I was stolen from and lied to, over and over again.

Interview: Katherine Osborne

/ Niina Pollari / Interviews
I like poetry where you are caught off guard or have to pay attention, are made to pay attention.

Interview: Ann Tweedy

/ Mary Kasimor / Interviews
I saw the world as a capacious place where one could be many things at once—only later did I realize how much energy it takes to have multiple vocations simultaneously.

Interview: Drew Shannon and Nathan Page

/ Lyndsay Kirkham / Interviews
Readers of this duo's work will detect a gorgeous interplay between classic and contemporary art styles, with a narrative that already feels to be more than your average Archie plotline.

Interview: Jacqueline Valencia

Five Questions with Gil McElroy

/ Roland Prevost / Interviews
There’s little comfort in randomness, in accident, in chaos – except the knowledge of their certainty, I guess. But I know them as a way forward – at least aesthetically.