by Angela Sorby | Feb 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
First off, congratulations on your collection The Sleeve Waves winning the Felix Pollak poetry prize. To borrow a musical term, I feel that there is lot of riffing going in these poems, like there are these intense clusters of meaning and sound punctuating the rhythm...
by Hope McLeod | Nov 19, 2013 | Magazine Article
My best friend’s grandmothersurvived the holocaust.Lived in a tiny roomoff of the kitchenate like a birdyet wanted to be near food.Others in the houseslept in huge bedroomswith tall ceilings and sliding glass doors.She preferred small placesand a window just big...
by B.J. Best | Jul 2, 2013 | Magazine Article
Your newest collection of prose poems references the classics—classic video games, that is. But Our Princess Is in Another Castle is considered by your publisher an “ekphrastic project,” a way of providing commentary on a work of visual art. Are classic video games...
by C.E. Perry | Apr 11, 2013 | Magazine Article
Draw a line to five, when Frank Bitsueis hauling water from the well then counthis living grandchildren and divide themby the ones who chased sheep into the rain.Subract the crash. Add summers and sleep ofnine kids laughing in the truck’s bed. Extendyour line at...
by William Quist | Apr 11, 2013 | Magazine Article
I guess you didn’t get my letter, since youdied before I put it in the mail.But maybe that’s OK—I mean, whatwas left to say anyway? Confession (I neverenjoyed hunting, or peeing in public)?Are you proud of me? Will I see you again?I’m taking a class...
