An Interview with Aaron Poochigian
Aaron Poochigian recently completed Stung With Love: The Poems and Fragments of Sappho (Penguin, 2009). His poems and translations have appeared in The Chimaera, The Classical Journal and Unsplendid. He is D.L. Jordan Fellow at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. His poetry and translations appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).
An Interview with Carol Frost
Carol Frost is the author of Love and Scorn (2000), I Will Say Beauty (2003) and The Queen’s Desertion (2006), all from TriQuarterly, and seven earlier books of poems. She has won four Pushcart Prizes and holds the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Chair in English at Rollins College. She founded the Catskill Poetry Workshop in 1988 and was its director until 2008. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).
An Interview with Michael Chitwood
Michael Chitwood is a freelance writer and a lecturer at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of eight books of poetry including most recently From Whence (LSU, 2007) and Spill (Tupelo, 2007), a finalist for ForeWord magazine’s poetry book of the year and winner of the 2008 Roanoke-Chowan Prize. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).
An Interview with Lynnell Edwards
Lynnell Edwards is the author of The Farmer's Daughter (2003) and The Highwayman's Wife (2007), both from Red Hen Press. She is a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her interview appears at www.smartishpace.com and her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 8, 13 and 15. [bio updated 2008]
An Interview with Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura is the author of The Brighter the Veil (Orchises, 1996), Stone Sky Lifting (Ohio State, 2000) and King Baby Poems (forthcoming, Alice James Books, 2008), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her collection of essays, On Looking (Sarabande, 2006), was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore. She read at the Whole Gallery, Baltimore, in the spring of 2008 for the release of Issue 15. Her work appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 15. (2008)
An Interview with Gary Fincke
Gary Fincke’s latest collection of poems is Standing Around the Heart (Arkansas, 2005). His fourth collection of stories, Sorry I Worried You (Georgia, 2004) won the 2003 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; Amp'd (Michigan State) his nonfiction account of his son's rock and roll life in two signed bands, was published in 2004. His poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issues 5, 8, 10 and 13. [bio updated 2006]
An Interview with Harvey Shapiro
Harvey Shapiro is the author of eleven books of poetry, including How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems (Wesleyan, 2001), Selected Poems (Wesleyan, 1997), and A Day’s Portion (Hanging Loose, 1994). He is a Senior Editor of the New York Times Magazine. (2002)
An Interview with Karoly Sandor
Karoly Sandor lives in Vancouver, Canada. He had three poems in Smartish Pace, Issue 1, and four translations of Hungarian poets in Issue 3. “Good Bye in Alexandrime” was a 2001 Erskine J. Poetry Prize Finalist. (2002)
An Interview with Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is the author of The Water Between Us (1999) and Song of Thieves (2003), both published by the University of Pittsburg Press. She lives in central Pennsylvania, where she directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and teaches at Bucknell University. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 5 and 13. [bio updated 2006]
An Interview with Jeffrey Harrison
Jeffrey Harrison is the author of three books of poetry: The Singing Underneath (E.P. Dutton, 1988), selected by James Merrill for the National Poetry Series, Signs of Arrival (Copper Beech, 1996) and Feeding the Fire (Sarabande, 2001). He has received a Guggenheim and NEA fellowship, as well as a Pushcart Prize, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. Visit www.smartishpace.com to read an interview with Mr. Harrison. (2002)
