Maureen N. McLane

Sep 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Maureen N. McLane

Long slide, are you comingmany a man never learnshow to do itLong slide, many yearsinside and outsidethe same long slideLong slide, fair warningthe children who diedneed not have diedLong slide, amusement parkhere you can buy what’s on offerlet’s put a fence around pleasureLong slide, new bedsome things never get oldhowever often they’re doneLong slide, playgrounddogs are not nanniessex? the secret?

Jun 17, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Maureen N. McLane

About this Poet Maureen N. McLane grew up in upstate New York and was educated at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of five books of poetry: Some Say (FSG, 2017), Mz N: the serial: a poem-in-episodes (FSG, 2016), This Blue (FSG,...

May 15, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Maureen N. McLane

Prose poetry,​ the bête noire of traditionalists, has existed since at least the 1840s, though as recently as 1979 Mark Strand was denied a Pulitzer Prize because his collection The Monument was made up of prose poems. These days it often appears, in anglophone poetry at least, as one option among many: free verse, formal verse, prose poetry, erasure poetry, whatever – it’s all good! (It’s not all good.) But Donna Stonecipher is rigorous, historical and formal.

Apr 25, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Maureen N. McLane

By Maureen N. McLane April 25, 2024 For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Maureen N. McLane’s poem “Haptographic Interface” appears in the new Spring issue of the Review. How did this poem start for you? Was it with an image, an idea, a phrase, or something else?

Mar 25, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Maureen N. McLane

This interview with John Barth was conducted in the studios of KUHT in Houston, Texas, for a series entitled The Writer in Society. The stage set was made up to resemble a writer’s den—the decor including a small globe of the world, bronze Remington-like animal statuary, a stand-up bookshelf with glass shelves on which were placed some potted plants and a haphazard collection of books, a few volumes of the Reader’s Digest condensed novel series among them. Large pots of plants were set about.