“Perfume Bottles Momentarily Unstopped”: A Perspective on Two Collections of Interviews
One hopes that in this new age, interviewers and editors continue to value the in-person, in-home interview, though they are out of vogue and more difficult to schedule and execute. Tony Leuzzi’s Passwords Primeval: American Poets in Their Own Words (BOA Editions, NY 2012) is a collection of interviews with a wide range...
Anne Carson & Lucie Brock-Broido at AWP 2013
The following are notations and excerpts from the closing reading of the 2013 Associated Writers and Writing Programs conference. From Jennifer Benka’s introduction of Anne Carson: Benka quoted Carson as saying, “I never find it possible to think without thinking of myself thinking.” From Anne Carson’s reading: Carson first read selections from her series “Life...
Quinn Latimer’s Rumored Animals
We could not read any other poet and have the experience that we have reading Latimer. Rumored Animals, winner of the American Poetry Journal book prize and published by Dream Horse Press in 2012, is the first volume by Quinn Latimer, and it positions her as one of a new generation of poets who belongs...
An Interview with Poet & Artist Bianca Stone
It’s just what Stein was talking about: letting images (just as words) go where they want. It’s about allowing imagination into your process. Bianca Stone is the author of several poetry chapbooks, including I Want To Open The Mouth God Gave You Beautiful Mutant (Factory Hollow Press) and I Saw The Devil With HIs Needlework (Argos Books). She is also illustrator of Antigonick,...
D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
The reader feels like a delighted child, listening to a filthy nursery rhyme written by a master of the English language . . . In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein made it clear that his goal was not to provide a practical guide through philosophy, but rather to “travel over a wide field of thought...
Anne Carson’s Tragedy-in-Translation: Antigonick
There are things other than red string that might disorient the reader of Antigonick. The Meta-textual introduction of Eurydice, for example . . . Anne Carson’s Antigonick* is a colorful riff on Sophocles’ Antigone, and the poet’s fourth book of tragedy-in-translation. If we separate the elements that make the book uniquely Carson, we don’t find much...
Three Poems Presents: Garth Greenwell
We recently discovered Learn about him on Wikipedia. Read his poem “First Morning” in Beloit Poetry Journal.
Dimiter Kenarov: The Goat
“Milking her, I had to watch out for her dung. On occasion, lost in some metaphor, I wouldn’t notice how her anus opened like an eye and beads of obsidian rolled out from inside: large black tears in the warm milk. Bitter sugar. At first I was mad . . . .” From Dimiter...
This Week: Celebrating One Year of Publishing!
Update: the week may have ended, but we will continue to celebrate the incredible world of poetry! – This week, to celebrate our first year of publishing, we’ll be drawing attention to some of our favorite poems and poets by posting po-chops (“poetry chops”–incredible lines from poems, along with our explanations of what...
