VLAD INTERVIEWS: Michelle Penn

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I wrote my first poem when I was nine, however the path to becoming a writer has been anything but linear...

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VLAD INTERVIEWS: Judson Hamilton

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I'm not sure I really miss extreme humidity. That feeling of being slowly and steadily decomposed on a cellular level isn’t pleasant...

Interview: Laurie Stone

Interview: Christine Larusso

/ Sara Youngblood Gregory / Interviews
I think another way one might describe some of my work is controlled mess, and I wouldn’t be mad about that.

Interview: Lindsey Boldt

/ Jamie Townsend / Interviews
We discussed, among other things, mutual aid, the radical healing potential of grief and depression, writing as emotional labor, humor, and poetry as magic.  

Interview: Toby Altman

/ Alexander Dickow / Interviews
Let's start with appetites themselves. What are you reading that makes you hungry?

Interview: Karen Houle

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
I made up that term, folk ecology, riffing on folk psychology which is often denigrated in contemporary evidence-based consciousness studies and brain medicine

Interview: Nikki Reimer

/ Jeremy Stewart / Interviews
My work is always too stuffy for Instagram but too stupid for the academy. It fits nowhere. It’s an aging Young-Girl, it’s a bitch.

Interview: Sivakami Velliangiri

/ Michelle D'costa / Interviews
One cannot write poetry just sitting in an AC room. You have got to live your life.

Interview: Mehdi M. Kashani

/ Michelle D'costa / Interviews
I’ve seen many people who go through tough separations. I find it interesting how they continue to be hung up on their past relationships.

Interview: Mariel Fechik

/ Melissa Eleftherion / Interviews
I can’t really pinpoint what my earliest memory of it is. What I do remember is my 7th grade poetry unit.

Interview: Medha Singh

/ Ruby Nangia / Interviews
I might have said this before somewhere, but it's imperative that the telos is to resist influence.

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/ Queen Mob / Interviews
Queen Mob's Teahouse is open to submissions of interviews with poets, fiction writers...

Interview: Kristin Chang

/ Jennifer Zhou / Interviews
I’m always trying to unlearn capitalist/Western ideas of “progress” and “discovery” and try to think of everything I write

Interview: Marianne Micros

Vlad Interviews: Genia and Daria Blum

/ Vlad Savich / Interviews
Like bad literature, a form of “fake ballet” exists, practiced by those inept in the use of this language

Interview: Darrel Alejandro Holnes

/ Jasminne Mendez / Interviews
I recently had the privilege of interviewing Afro-Panamanian poet, playwright and musician Darrel Alejandro Holnes. […]

Interview: Adam Lindsay Honsinger

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
Novel writing is a marathon, and I like to keep writing when I take a break from writing.

Interview: Claire Tacon

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
In writing characters that were further from my experience, I felt like I had to meet three requirements. One, I had to know what I was talking about.

Interview: Eric Blix

/ Justin Eells / Interviews
I have a very torn sentiment toward the particular political moment, and I guess I’ll just go out and say it: I’m very ambivalent about Trump when I’m writing.

Interview: Claudia F. Savage

/ Lisa Birman / Interviews
My compositional process is deeply connected with being outside. I almost always begin my writing practice by walking or hiking. Words flow from movement.

Interview: J’Lyn Chapman

/ Heather Sweeney / Interviews
I didn't know that summer would be so horrifying and awesome, but then I think that when we just pay attention, any moment in time can become sublime...