Photo of Miles Champion (left) courtesy of The Poetry Project, copyright Star Black.
A wonderful moment occurs toward the close of How I Became a Painter, Miles Champion’s recently published book of conversations with the painter Trevor Winkfield, in which Winkfield switches roles on his erstwhile interviewer to ask candidly, “Why do you like my paintings?”
Miles Champion grew up in England and moved to the U.S. in his early 30s. His books include Compositional Bonbons Placate, Sore Models, Three Bell Zero, and, just out from Pressed Wafer, How I Became a Painter: Trevor Winkfield in Conversation with Miles Champion. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.On this show, Miles reads his new book, How to Laugh, which is forthcoming from Adventures in Poetry.
Program One: Champiom reads How To Laugh: (24:16): MP3 Program Two: Conversation with Charles Bernstein:(28:52): MP3
Tom Raworth's As When: A Selection, forthcoming from Carcanet
As When
A Selection
Tom Raworth
Edited by Miles Champion
As When is the selection I have waited for—the whole spread of a great poet’s work.- Fanny Howe
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