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An Interview with David Kirby
By Stephen Reichert November, 2000 (published in The Arkansas Review)DAVID KIRBY is the author or coauthor of eighteen books, including five poetry collections. The House of Blue Light, his latest…
An Interview with Stephen Cushman
By Stephen Reichert STEPHEN REICHERT: First off, thank you for agreeing to do this interview despite the busyness of your semester. I’d like to begin with your origins and influences. What…
An Interview with Christopher Buckley
By Maggie Paul In his new book, Star Apocrypha, the poet Christopher Buckley reaches for a higher lyric pitch and succeeds exponentially. Buckley’s poetry addresses matters of this world and of…
An Interview with Denise Duhamel
By Karla Huston CHIMERA: an interview with Denise Duhamel by Karla Huston (Note: this interview was conducted via email between January and May 2004.) Denise Duhamel’s poetry has been described…
An Interview with Jeffrey Harrison
By Jacqueline McLean Jeffrey Harrison’s Feeding the Fire is available from Sarabande Books (www.sarabandebooks.org). Harrison is the author of two previous collections, The Singing Underneath, selected by James Merrill for…
An Interview with Shara McCallum
By Magdelyn Hammond Magdelyn Hammond: When did you start writing poetry? Have you always considered yourself a poet, or are there parts of yourself that were always a poet even…
An Interview with Karoly Sandor
By Stephen Reichert STEPHEN REICHERT:You were born in Budapest, Hungary on August 23, 1931. How did you make your way to Canada in 1957 and what are your memories of…
An Interview with Harvey Shapiro
By Norman Finkelstein Harvey Shapiro’s newest collection of poems, How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems, will appear in 2001. Born in Chicago in 1924, educated at Yale and Columbia,…
An Interview with Gary Fincke
By Dan Cryer Gary Fincke is the author of sixteen books of poetry and short fiction, and, in 2004, of Amp’d, a personal account of his son’s life in the rock…
An Interview with Lia Purpura
By Laura Klebanow Laura Klebanow: It seems you came to write poetry first, and prose poetry and essays next. Is this correct, or has your work in each genre developed…