The Legacy Suite: Field of Yellow, Field of Knowing
A Conversation with Brittany Rogers
All posts filed under: Interviews
Conversations between writers about their art and craft.
A Mouth Holds Many Things: A Conversation with Stephanie Adams-Santos, Jennifer S. Cheng, and Cindy Juyoung Ok
A discussion with contributors to the new anthology from Fonograf Editions
Interview // “Dance Anthem for Freedom and Play”: A Conversation with Elizabeth HooverÂ
“o, yes, there are gaps in all archives, both private and public. The question is what is our responsibility toward those gaps? Sometimes we have an impulse to “fill them in,” but that can perform a double erasure—erasing the erasure, hiding the violence. So can those gaps become sites for the imagination, sites of possibility and play?”—Elizabeth Hoover
Interview // “The Poet as Perceptual Instrument & The Form as an Invitation”: A Conversation with Sarah Mangold
“I do believe the poet is the perceptual instrument of a poem. Not exactly an empty vessel, but a vessel that has been prepared to receive the poem.”—Sarah Mangold
Interview // “Portals of a Shared Humanity”: A Conversation with Tracy Fuad
“Hope is projecting into the future, but joy is almost a temporary eradication of past and future, an insistence on a present tense pleasure.”—Tracy Fuad
Who I Want to Name—A Conversation with Charles Potts
“I demand this of my own poetry. It has to be intellectually rigorous. It has to be about something. It has to have emotional resonance. It has to have musicality and it’s got to have an artistic edge.”
Interview // “Poetry as a Tool for Discovery”: A Conversation with Sarah Ghazal AliÂ
“I can’t let go of the poem until it lets go of me, I suppose.” —Sarah Ghazal Ali
Interview // “Generosity in Vulnerability”: A Conversation with Danika Stegeman
“Collage has always made sense to me as an approach to composition. Peering into another person, into language, into a material. Seeing what’s before me, holding it, considering its potential force and its textures. I take it in and then I pour it back out as something I’m also woven into.”—Danika Stegeman
Review & Interview // “Where Insects Bite”: A Conversation with Carolina Hotchandani and Review of The Book Eaters
“It occurred to me that, as a nursing mother, I was like a book being eaten by insects—a book offering a type of nourishment to living beings that its author had not intended to deliver.”—Carolina Hotchandani
Interview // “From Farm to Poem”: A Conversation with Jessica Poli
“When I’m out in the field, weeding or planting or harvesting, sometimes I’m thinking about poems or working on one in my head. But more often I’m simply practicing my capacity to pay attention, which is where poetry, at its root, begins.” —Jessica Poli