David Breskin explains why the ghazal works to accompany Ed Ruscha’s art and Nels Cline’s music. “In the end, I felt that I was writing while wearing the world’s most luxurious set of fur-lined handcuffs.”
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Bullets, Bladerunner, Sibyls and Shells: a Conversation with the Poet Ruth Fainlight
Poet, translator, and dramatist Jenny Lewis talks with the similarly multi-genre Ruth Fainlight about her poetry, life, experience shooting guns, and her love of B-movies. A “feminist from birth,” Fainlight counted Robert Graves, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes among her close friends.
The New Interview with Mathew Timmons
Mathew Timmons’ latest book, The New Poetics ($15), published by Les Figues Press as part of their TrenchArt Maneuvers Series, topped the Small Press Distribution bestseller list for poetry in December.
40 Percent Saline: A Conversation with Travis Elborough
I’ve been to Dover Beach, and suffice it to say I was not impressed. I mean, where are the piña coladas?
A Conversation with Pascale Petit
A conversation with Pascale Petit about her new collection of poetry, What the Water Gave to Me, a biography in verse of Frida Kahlo.
A Brief Conversation with Sherwin Bitsui
A conversation with Native American Sherwin Bitsui about his new, second book of poetry, Flood Song.
Shoulder Season: Ange Mlinko in Conversation with Jordan Davis
Poet Ange Mlinko discusses her latest book with Jordan Davis.
Hosting Voices: A Conversation with Ching-In Chen
A conversation with Ching-In Chen about her new novel in poems, The Heart’s Traffic.
Elena Karina Byrne & The End Times Opry
Friday 21 May 2010 The End Times Opry brings its multidisciplinary arts showcase to the Eagle Rock Arts Center. As media partners, we’re proud to present the following interview with poet Elena Karina Byrne, one of several Los Angeles-area poets performing at The End Times. Elena and I conversed by email. Her love of language [...]
Just As Rare as Happy Marriages: An Interview with Vera Pavlova
Vera Pavlova’s new collection, If There Is Something to Desire, her first to be released in English, was published by Knopf in January. The book collects one hundred of her poems, many which have yet to appear in print, translated by her husband Steven Seymour. A truly international poet who spends her time between Moscow and [...]
The Far-out Folk Interviews: Vashti Bunyan
This is the first of a new monthly series of interview by music writer Jeanette Leech, who is currently finishing her book on far-out folk, Shifting Sands, to be published autumn 2010 by Jawbone Books. During the course of her research, Leech has had the opportunity to speak with some of the genre’s most dynamic [...]
A Brief Conversation with Stephen Elliott
Elliott is the author of four novels, including Happy Baby, two books of nonfiction, and a collection of short stories. Elliott has been both an adolescent ward of the state and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and he is now the editor of The Rumpus, a website of cultural commentary.
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The Prodigal Son: A Microscript by Robert Walser
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The Literature of Justice
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Writing without Writing: On Mario Bellatin
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Beneath My Olive Tree with Lorca: Poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
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Three Poems from Cuba
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The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
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Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
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World Prose Portfolio #7: Dennis Walder
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Burning Deck: Introducing an Appreciation
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World Prose Portfolio #6: Sunetra Gupta
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