Paul Hoover was born in 1946, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago for many years before accepting an offer to go work as a teacher at San Francisco State University in the year 2003. He is known for being an editor of both the magazine New American Writing…
Denise Duhamel was born on June 13, 1961 in Rhode island, earned her B.F.A. from Emerson College, and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawerence College. She currently resides in Florida, teaching classes on creative writing and literature at Florida International University. Shortly after beginning her graduation, she started her career in literature with her earliest books,…
Chris Forhan was born in Seattle Washington on November 6, 1959. He currently lives in Indiana with his wife and two children, where he is a professor of creative writing at Butler University. He is the author of a memoir, My Father Before Me (2016), along with three books of poetry: Black Lept In (2009),…
Arthur Sze was born in December 1950 in New York City, and he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he serves as Professor Emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He has written 11 poetry collections, including The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems; Sight Lines, which received the National Book Award…
Since I was a child my head was filled with stories of princes and princesses, knights and vast castles, kings and queens ruling over their lands. Five year old me was truly happiest, thinking that happy endings always existed in the world. I will say television and books really fed my impressionable little mind, but…
Michael Collier, born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1953, received his undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and earned his MFA at the University of Arizona. Currently, he lives in Cornwall, Vermont, and is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of eight books of poems, including The Clasp and…
Anthony Madrid was born in 1985 in Bethesda, Maryland and currently lives in Chicago. He graduated as a PhD student from the University of Chicago (in the graduate program in English language and literature), with an MD from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and a BA from Penn State. Some publications…
Brad Leithauser’s “A Good List” describes many things he has never done. He wrote the poem while living in Iceland during a snowstorm, and the end result is a piece that he still laughs about. Born on April 3, 1943, in Traverse City, Michigan, Leithauser, a Harvard-educated poet, has produced many poems, essays, and novels.…
Sigurd Glad first interviewed A.E. Stallings back in 2017, asking her five questions that were inspired by her poem “The Barnacle.” Having recently read selections from This Afterlife, Ms. Stallings’s 2022 collection of poems, I was happy to have the chance to circle back and reconnect with one of this site’s favorite poets. A. E.…
“[T]his is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought…