Interviews


Tahseen al-Khateeb	Collapsing America An interview with Linh Dinh	Jun 25, 2015
Rosa Alcalá	Unrehearsed chemicals A conversation between Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Rosa Alcalá	Apr 10, 2012
Chris Alexander	Writing as metadata container An interview with Tan Lin	Jan 20, 2012
Phanuel Antwi and Veronica Austen	Cocreation in an uncertain world An interview with M. NourbeSe Philip	Sep 17, 2013
Gary Barwin	Everyone was suddenly everywhere An interview with Joanne Arnott	Jun 15, 2015
Gary Barwin	Full-body poetics An interview with Geof Huth by Gary Barwin	Nov 15, 2013
Gary Barwin	Stuart Ross exists. Details follow. An interview with Stuart Ross	Dec 10, 2014
Aaron Beasley	Really doing contemporaneity David Buuck on 'Tripwire,' poetics, and politics	Oct 11, 2018
Caleb Beckwith	Marie Buck and Caleb Beckwith in conversation	Jun 25, 2018
Caroline Bergvall	The surprise of love and writing An interview with Caroline Bergvall by Rozalie Hirs	Feb 15, 2013
Bill Berkson	'Pulverized language' Bill Berkson in conversation with Carlos Villa	Aug 22, 2018
Charles Bernstein	Explode for small change (PoemTalk #104)	Sep 14, 2017
Charles Bernstein	LINEbreak: Bruce Andrews, New York City 1995	Jul 26, 2011
Charles Bernstein	On being stubborn Close Listening with Christian Bök	Apr 21, 2011
Ted Berrigan	Any possible way of making words Ted Berrigan with Lyn Hejinian and Kit Robinson on 'In the American Tree,' 1978	Jun 10, 2012
Robin Blaser	Robin Blaser in conversation with Leonard Schwartz	Aug 14, 2015
Julia Bloch	If nothing ever ended PoemTalk #38: Norman Fischer's 'I’d Like to See It'	Sep 19, 2018
Jaap Blonk	'R's Nova: Where does the [unintelligible] come from? Jaap Blonk in conversation with Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts	Jun 29, 2012
Regis Bonvicino	The sung word Caetano Veloso in 1979	Apr 03, 2011
Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich	'The contextualizing capacity of the writing itself' Bruce Andrews with Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich	Oct 31, 2012
Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich	Baraka in 2010 'To understand it as a worker and understand it as an intellectual'	Sep 15, 2014
Julie Carr	'There should be battles' Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap interview Leslie Kaplan	Oct 18, 2017
Amy Catanzano	Impossible poems at invisible scales An interview with Amy Catanzano	Nov 03, 2015
Micah Cavaleri	Parsing arias A dialogue through 'abu ghraib arias'	Apr 05, 2012
Allison Cobb	On the central tensions of being An interview between Christy Davids and Allison Cobb	Aug 01, 2017
Andrew Cox	Linh Dinh's state of the union	Sep 28, 2011
Robert Creeley	Robert Creeley at Kelly Writers House, 2000	Mar 20, 2014
Wystan Curnow	Writing in situ Close Listening with Wystan Curnow	Feb 20, 2014
Christy Davids	Inverting helplessness An interview between Christy Davids and Nikki Wallschlaeger	Aug 21, 2018
Samuel R. Delany	Delany on Close Listening, April 2014	Feb 12, 2015
Thomas Devaney	The education of poetry An interview with Bill Berkson	Dec 13, 2012
Thomas Devaney	The seeds of its own unfolding PoemTalk on Lyn Hejinian's 'constant change figures'	Oct 15, 2012
Johanna Drucker	Threads talk Johanna Drucker on Granary Books	Jul 21, 2011
Gregory Dunne	'Fully a book' An interview with Bob Arnold on Cid Corman's 'of'	Jun 25, 2015
Paul Dutton	'A sound bursts out of me' An interview with Paul Dutton	Feb 28, 2014
Craig Dworkin	Even when those texts look indistinguishable from the work that is included An interview with Craig Dworkin	Nov 16, 2011
Steve Evans	Recordings of poetry: Technologies, pedagogies, institutional politics	Jul 11, 2013
Al Filreis	Asking Creeley about Williams	Mar 31, 2011
Al Filreis	Just begun to learn: PoemTalk on Louis Zukofsky's 'Anew'	Jan 19, 2012
Tonya Foster	Making the invisible visible Jennifer Scappettone and Tonya Foster in conversation, 2010	Sep 21, 2018
George Fragopoulos	The space of the imagination An interview with Lisa Jarnot	Oct 09, 2013
Heather Fuller	PhillyTalks #9: Heather Fuller and Melanie Neilson	Apr 25, 2013
Drew Gardner	The split impulse Michael Gottlieb on essaying the memoir	May 20, 2011
Barbara Guest	LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein A transcript of the 1995 radio show	Jun 20, 2011
Lyn Hejinian	I am suddenly aware that phrases happen Lyn Hejinian at Kelly Writers House, February 22, 2005	Mar 09, 2012
Maja Jantar	Sound I polypoetry Maja Jantar in conversation with Oana Avasilichioaei	Jul 20, 2011
Myung Mi Kim	Ear turned toward the emergent Close Listening with Myung Mi Kim	Feb 19, 2012
Aaron Kunin	Renunciation Aaron Kunin and Ben Lerner in conversation	Apr 06, 2011
James La Marre	Poetic protocols An interview with Craig Dworkin	Jan 05, 2016
Michael Lally	The crowd inside me Michael Lally in conversation with Burt Kimmelman	Aug 29, 2011
Leevi Lehto	We listen with our throats and we speak with our ears An interview with Leevi Lehto	Oct 24, 2011
Lauren Levin	'The personal is environmental' Gabriel Ojeda-Sague interviews Eric Sneathen and Lauren Levin	Jul 31, 2017
Lily Iona Mackenzie	Inhabiting both sides Aaron Shurin's correspondences	Jun 04, 2012
Bernadette Mayer	Bernadette Mayer with Susan Howe in 1979	May 08, 2015
Deborah Meadows	Nearness with attitude An interview with Andrew Maxwell	Jan 19, 2016
Derek Mong	Resisting the art of entropy triumphant An interview with Maxim Amelin	Aug 06, 2014
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl	Sound og polipoetry Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl dialogues with Cris Costa	Jul 21, 2011
Maggie O'Sullivan	'Writing is a body-intensive activity' Close Listening with Maggie O'Sullivan	Dec 04, 2013
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague	Body and violence: An interview with Emji Spero	Jul 31, 2015
Ben Olin	'Readers of the future' would be interested Gary Lenhart on 'Public Access Poetry'	Sep 29, 2016
George Oppen	No form in mind Paul Auster in conversation with George and Mary Oppen	May 04, 2016
Eugene Ostashevsky	Studying by talking Students interview three poets	Apr 10, 2013
Niamh O’Mahony	Joyce in 2011: Finding a language use	Feb 03, 2014
Ron Padgett	'Dancing in a straitjacket' An interview with Ron Padgett	Mar 28, 2013
Ted Pearson	Ted Pearson in conversation with Luke Harley June 8, 2010, to September 16, 2010	Jul 28, 2011
Ted Pearson	Ted Pearson in conversation with Luke Harley November 25, 2010, to September 6, 2011	Jan 30, 2012
Angela Peñaredondo	Ambivalent romantics and jagged kinesthetics A conversation between Angela Peñaredondo and Jai Arun Ravine	Jul 13, 2017
Marjorie Perloff	Futurism and schism Close Listening with Marjorie Perloff	Nov 08, 2012
Poetry & Science Panelists	Definition of basics	Mar 13, 2012
Poetry & Science Panelists	Disciplinary pertinence; required expertise	Mar 13, 2012
Poetry & Science Panelists	Metaphor or more?	Mar 13, 2012
Poetry & Science Panelists	Science-informed readings	Nov 29, 2011
Poetry & Science Panelists	Zukofsky	Mar 13, 2012
George Quasha	'Awareness inside language' On George Quasha's preverbs	May 13, 2016
Marthe Reed	Sustained and heightened Laura Mullen on 'Complicated Grief'	Jun 22, 2016
Jerome Rothenberg	Jerome Rothenberg at Kelly Writers House, April 29, 2008	Dec 22, 2011
Eliza Rotterman	Iterations and interstices Endi Bogue Hartigan on fields and crowds and more	Jun 25, 2015
Camille Roy	Suspense is not telling Camille Roy with Michael Cross	Oct 23, 2013
Susan Rudy	A conversation with Caroline Bergvall	Apr 07, 2011
Linda Russo	The poem that marks things Stephen Ratcliffe with Linda Russo	Oct 20, 2011
Zach Savich	The antidotal approach An interview with Andy Fitch	Jan 15, 2015
Jeffrey Schrader	On duration Stephen Ratcliffe in conversation with Jeffrey Schrader	Oct 20, 2011
Susan M. Schultz	Insistent memory Susan Schultz with Leonard Schwartz, 2008	Nov 04, 2011
Leonard Schwartz	Coinciding in the same space Kiki Smith with Leonard Schwartz on Cross Cultural Poetics in 2011	Jun 11, 2012
Sophie Seita	The transatlantic axis of 'Alembic' An interview with editors Ken Edwards and Robert Hampson	Jan 02, 2018
Aleksandr Skidan	Kevin M. F. Platt and Aleksandr Skidan in conversation	Mar 02, 2018
Jonathan Skinner	Sound of waves in channel Stephen Ratcliffe with Jonathan Skinner	Oct 20, 2011
Dani Spinosa	In digital ether W. Mark Sutherland in correspondence with Dani Spinosa	Sep 21, 2017
Lewis Hammond Stone	'Tenzone' interviews John Wieners	Dec 24, 2012
Brian Teare	'Private Archive' An interview with Stephen Motika	May 03, 2018
Brian Teare	Illness, lyric, and total contingency Brian Teare in conversation with Jaime Shearn Coan	Jun 27, 2016
Brian Teare	Mobilizing affects Rachel Zolf in conversation with Brian Teare, March 2015	May 22, 2015
Tony Trehy	Tony Trehy on curating Bury's Text Festival	Jul 23, 2012
Tony Trigilio	Cyborg voice, collage joy An interview with Tony Trigilio	May 30, 2014
Divya Victor	Eight discourses between Myung Mi Kim and Divya Victor	Apr 12, 2013
Divya Victor	Eight discourses with Kim Rosenfield	Apr 02, 2011
Divya Victor	Seven discourses with Rachel Zolf June 5, 2011, to August 15, 2012	Dec 14, 2012
Divya Victor	Seven discourses with Vanessa Place	Apr 01, 2011
Fred Wah	PhillyTalks #7: Brian Kim Stefans and Fred Wah	Feb 22, 2013
Keith Waldrop	Close listening with Keith Waldrop, 2009	Apr 08, 2015
Afton Wilky	Intersecting: Sound and poetry An interview with angela rawlings and Joshua Liebowitz	Jun 17, 2014
Cameron Williams	'Really, music was the cause of it' Interview with Russell Atkins, June 2, 2016, at The Grand Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio	Apr 03, 2018
R. D. Wood	White engine against black magic Aboriginal song poetry and anthropology	Mar 06, 2012
Grzegorz Wróblewski	'The passenger syndrome' An interview with Grzegorz Wróblewski	Aug 28, 2014

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Disambiguating rape culture

Lynn Melnick’s nouns

BK Fischer

Photo of Lynn Melnick (left) by Timothy Donnelly.

Gertrude Stein never trusted nouns. She was wary of their tendency to fossilize meaning, even as she relished their potential to be magnetized: “Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun.”[1] Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence, eighty years later, takes up this ambivalent and vexed embrace of nouns in the space of rape culture, where adoring and wanting cross use and abuse as matters graver than grammatical concern.

From 'Eclipse' by Joe Safdie, with a note on its poetics by the author

Jerome Rothenberg

A sunrise, the sun’s course, a sunset are marvelous to no one because they occur daily. But solar eclipses are a source of wonder because they occur seldom, and indeed are more marvelous than lunar eclipses, because these are more frequent. Thus nature shows that she is not aroused by the common ordinary event, but is moved by a new and striking occurrence. Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. — Frances Yates, The Art of Memory

Do you have an extra cigarette?

Sommer Browning

image of a long road that fades into the distance taken from inside a car — long road

Have you ever heard Aram Saroyan read his poem “Biography”?[1] It is a poem in which he recites every year from his birth to the current year in his usual steady, calm cadence. I’m a bit fascinated with this poem; I seem to bring it up often. It really can’t be beat. It’s a pure poem. I heard him read it in 2007 (I think) at Poet’s House in New York. There are a hundred things to say about the poem, how the simplicity of it belies the fact that it describes something huge, i.e.