Interviews

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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 Caleb Beckwith and Suzanne Stein in conversation
'Political Subject'
Aug 15, 2019
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 'And whoever picks it up grabs the magic'
Will Alexander on Close Listening, October 19, 2016
Oct 20, 2022
Charles Bernstein 'The performance of freedom'
Close Listening with Tonya Foster and Charles Bernstein
Mar 19, 2020
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
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
Marty Cain Vomiting gold in Arcadia
A conversation between Marty Cain and Joe Hall
May 10, 2023
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
Serena Chopra A conversation between poet-grammarians
Excerpts
Nov 16, 2018
Gabrielle Civil The delight of this work
Women of color celebrate second books
May 16, 2022
Allison Cobb On the central tensions of being
An interview between Christy Davids and Allison Cobb
Aug 01, 2017
Gillian Conoley 'Poetry is in the world'
Gillian Conoley and Christy Davids in conversation
Nov 05, 2021
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
Norman Fischer Condemnation, confrontation, remembrance
A conversation with Andrew Levy and Norman Fischer
Jan 02, 2019
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
Kathleen Fraser Kathleen Fraser and Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Sounding Translation episode 1
Apr 11, 2023
Heather Fuller PhillyTalks #9: Heather Fuller and Melanie Neilson Apr 25, 2013
Edgar Garcia Zoning in, zoning out
A trialogue
Sep 07, 2021
Drew Gardner The split impulse
Michael Gottlieb on essaying the memoir
May 20, 2011
Brandi George Piece these disjointed images together
Brandi George in conversation with Sandra Simonds
Feb 13, 2024
Samantha Giles Being in a body
Samantha Giles and Lauren Levin
May 15, 2019
Barbara Guest LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein
A transcript of the 1995 radio show
Jun 20, 2011
Jaimie Gusman Inadequacy of skin and feather
Jaimie Gusman on 'Anyjar'
Jan 29, 2019
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
Mark Francis Johnson Dots in the distance
A dialogue with Mark Francis Johnson
May 26, 2021
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
William Lessard Someone's got to keep this generation honest
Corso editors Raymond Foye and George Scrivani, with William Lessard
Nov 04, 2022
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
Afrizal Malna Afrizal Malna in conversation with Daniel Owen Jul 14, 2020
Andy Martrich Navigating distance in locality
An interview with Tom Patterson, featuring photographs by Jonathan Williams
Jun 17, 2020
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
Kirill Medvedev Violent holidays in Russia
An interview with Kirill Medvedev
Dec 23, 2021
Derek Mong Resisting the art of entropy triumphant
An interview with Maxim Amelin
Aug 06, 2014
David Naimon One side or the other of that 'you'
Claudia Rankine and David Naimon in conversation
Apr 20, 2020
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-Sagué 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
Seth Perlow 'So I continued, issue by issue'
Seth Perlow interviews 'Jacket' founder John Tranter
May 12, 2023
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
Joan Retallack Alternative poetries and alternative pedagogies
Joan Retallack, Kelly Writers House, 2001
May 08, 2020
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
Hiroaki Sato The longer short of it
An interview with Hiroaki Sato
Apr 30, 2021
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
Jordan Scott Sycorax, spirit, and 'Zong!'
An interview with M. NourbeSe Philip
May 14, 2019
Gail Scott Transfer and estrangement
Gail Scott in conversation with Jane Malcolm
Feb 05, 2020
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
Eric Sneathen Jocelyn Saidenberg and Eric Sneathen
A conversation
Mar 19, 2021
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
Rodrigo Toscano The 'now what' question of music and poetics
Rodrigo Toscano with Clare Louise Harmon
Jul 01, 2020
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
Teresa Villa-Ignacio Haun Saussy and Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Sounding Translation episode 3
Aug 04, 2023
Teresa Villa-Ignacio Sarah Riggs and Teresa Villa-Ignacio
Sounding Translation episode 2
May 09, 2023
Fred Wah PhillyTalks #7: Brian Kim Stefans and Fred Wah Feb 22, 2013
Keith Waldrop Close listening with Keith Waldrop, 2009 Apr 08, 2015
Tom Weatherly This is provocation
Tom Weatherly with Victor Bockris and Andrew Wylie
Sep 06, 2019
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