JoAnn Balingit’s poems have most recently appeared in Salt Hill, Pearl, can we have our ball back? and DIAGRAM’s second print anthology (Del Sol Press, 2006). She has received a…

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Aaron Baker received an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2001 and completed a two-year Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He lives in Charlottesville, VA, and teaches in…

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Benjamin Aleshire is based in New Orleans and travels the world as a poet-for-hire. His work has appeared in Boston Review, El Mundo, Iowa Review and NEON Magazine. A recipient…

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Dilruba Ahmed’s debut book, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), won the Bakeless Literary Prize.  Her poems have been anthologized in Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (U. of…

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Clarissa Adkins is an MFA candidate in poetry with Lesley University’s low-residency program. Recently, her work appeared in Parentheses Journal, Plath Poetry Project and Poems2Go. She is a reader for…

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Betty Adcock is the author of five books of poems from LSU, most recently Intervale: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize and winner of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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