“Concerning the Henbane Bird”: On Will Alexander’s The Combustion Cycle by the University of Notre Dame’s Graduate Poetry Workshop
These responses to Will Alexander’s long poem “Concerning the Henbane Bird” from The Combustion Cycle were written by the members of the Graduate Poetry Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Every week the class [...]
Down: An Interview with Erin Elizabeth Smith by Hannah V Warren
Hannah V Warren: You’ve explicitly tied this collection to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Did you start this poetry project with Alice in mind or did she assume a larger part as you wrote? Even [...]
Valerie Hsiung: An Interview by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: What was the driving force behind You & Me Forever? Valerie Hsiung: Needing to survive. PC: In 2016, Action Books published your third full-length collection, efg. The late great poet CD Wright compared [...]
Daniel Tiffany: An Interview by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: What was the impetus behind Privado? Daniel Tiffany: Privado was one of two different, but related, manuscripts I was working on at the same time in 2008, both published in 2010. The second [...]
Don Mee Choi: An Interview with Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham: First, congratulations on your National Book Award for DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020)! As you know from Twitter, I’ve noticed distinct connections between DMZ Colony and your debut collection from Action Books—The Morning [...]
Melisa Machado: An Interview by Johannes Göransson | Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen
Johannes Göransson: Your poems in The Red Song reference the poetry of Paul Celan. What drew you to his work? Melisa Machado: I’ve been reading Celan since I was 24. There’s no way to escape [...]