Earlier this year, Ugly Duckling Presse published a new edition of Rachel Levitsky’s 2009 book Neighbor. In the book, Levitsky writes, “I’ve decided to use my obsession/with my neighbor as…
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Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed Editions, 2020 88 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Kasey Jueds: Hannah, I feel a little tentative about beginning,…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry“Staging the end of a limiting self”: A Conversation with Mike Soto
When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewFailure Is The Universe Testing Our Resolve: In Conversation With Michael J Seidlinger
Dreams of Being is out now via Maudlin House. Andrew Byrds: This book couldn’t have come out at a better time. With a pandemic, an onslaught of political and social…
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I recently had the opportunity to interview Sheila O’Connor about her most recent hybrid novel, Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions, which excavates the buried history…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry“Brief worlds are my favorites”: A Conversation with Parker Tettleton
Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…
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ConversationInterviewNothing is embarrassing if you aren’t embarrassed: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic on Milan, Clubbing, and being the Life of the Party
Life of the Party is out now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: Milan is presented as a city of opposites in your book, and these contradictions are explored a lot.…
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How the lyric poem can enable creative reimagining of a historical figure. Four poets discuss strategies and techniques, as well as the rewards and difficulties involved in writing a verse…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewWe’re all suffering, so let’s laugh about it: Brian Alan Ellis on Obliterating Ego, Carly Rae Jepsen, And Being a Bad Poet
Bad Poet is available for pre-order now at House of Vlad Productions. Andrew Byrds: For the first question, I wanna backpedal to our first interview. We hit the ground running…
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ConversationInterview“There’s always someone else out there who can match your weird”: An Interview with Jules Archer
Reading the stories in Jules Archer’s second book, Little Feasts, is like attending a dinner party where the menu features every decadent, unnerving dish you’ve always been curious but afraid…
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ConversationInterviewHell is the truth, the shadow, the blind spot, the thing you don’t want to look at: In Conversation with Kim Vodicka
The Elvis Machine is available for preorder now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: So, the first thing I noticed in your collection was your word play and twisting language. I…
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ConversationInterviewReviewLives to be Treasured: Author, Character and Self in Sandra Miller’s Trove
Trove: A Woman’s Search for Truth and Buried Treasure by Sandra A. Miller Brown Paper Press, September 2019 220 pages / BPP / Amazon Coming to grips with one’s…
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Like many writers slated for #AWP20 San Antonio, I spent two days thinking about whether I should attend the conference as planned. Besides being on a panel on “Teaching the…
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VI KHI NAO: In preparation for this conversation, I almost made bánh xèo. But, alas, I have been very un-culinary. How is your appetite lately, Jessica? Your poetry collection enters…
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