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The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

Sep 27, 2024 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

Peter Misher Talks to the Author of “Words on Edge” For this next installment in this long-running interview series, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Michael Leong. Leong is a poet, critic, editor, and educator.
Finding the Strangeness in the Everyday: A Conversation With Srikanth Reddy

Sep 11, 2024 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Srikanth Reddy. Reddy’s latest book of poetry, Underworld Lit, was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year” for 2020.
Poetry’s Mysterious Power: A Conversation With Dara Barrois/Dixon

Jul 25, 2024 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this next installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Dara Barrois/Dixon. Barrois/Dixon, born in New Orleans, lives in western Massachusetts. Her writing has been supported by the Lannan and Guggenheim Foundations. Her new book, Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts, is out now from Conduit Books.
Dara Barrois/Dixon on the Lived Poetry of the Late James Tate

Nov 28, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler corresponded with Dara Barrois/Dixon, co-editor of Hell, I Love Everybody: The Essential James Tate (Ecco). Barrois/Dixon (née Wier) is the author of several collections of poetry, including five titles from Wave Books. Dara Barrois/Dixon’s most recent book is Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina from Wave Books. Barrois/Dixon was married to James Tate for over twenty-five years.
Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Oct 25, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler |Christopher Kennedy

For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Christopher Kennedy. Christopher Kennedy is the author of six collections of poetry, including four from BOA Editions: The Strange God Who Makes Us, which will be published in May 2024; Clues from the Animal Kingdom (2018); Ennui Prophet (2011); and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (2007), which won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA.
Poet and Translator Dong Li on the “Common Tongue of Poetry”

Sep 18, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler |Dong Li

Dong Li is a multilingual author who translates from the Chinese, English, French, and German. Born and raised in China, he was educated at Deep Springs College and Brown University. His full-length English translations from the Chinese include Song Lin’s The Gleaner Song (Giramondo & Deep Vellum, 2021) and Zhu Zhu’s The Wild Great Wall (Deep Vellum, 2018).
Poet Sara Deniz Akant Talks Uncertainty, Turkish Identity, and Embracing Cringe

Jul 7, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Sara Deniz Akant. Akant is a Turkish-American poet, educator, and performer. She is the author of Hyperphantasia (Rescue Press 2022, NYT Best Books 2022), Babette (Rescue Press 2015, winner of the Black Box prize), Parades (Omnidawn 2014, winner of the chapbook prize), and Latronic Strag (Persistent Editions 2014).
André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

Jun 2, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

In this next installment in a series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with André Naffis-Sahely. Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020).
Kathy Fagan on the Poetic Power of “Misusing” Language

Mar 15, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this next installation in a series of interviews with poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Kathy Fagan. Fagan’s sixth poetry collection is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions, 2022). Her previous book, Sycamore (Milkweed, 2017), was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award.
Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Finding Language at the Intersection Colonialism and Patriarchy

Feb 23, 2023 | lithub.com | Peter Mishler

For this next installment in a series of interviews with poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with Anthony Anaxagorou. Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher, and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, New Statesman, Granta, and elsewhere. His work has also appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4, and Sky Arts.