1.29.2012John Oliver Simon: Dos Vidas | JP ReeseTranslation is my deepest encounter with the other. When I translate I burrow inside another poet’s skin and find my own face staring out. When I’m translated, someone takes on my tongue and teeth and emerges with a language that is tangent to mine at every point on a multi-dimensional surface.1.11.2012Leah Hager Cohen: Empathy and Knowingness | MaryAnne Kolton
"Being present in the world is often a difficult task, but writing, for me, is not a way of sidestepping discomfort. It's another mode of being present. The kind of writing that interests me most involves committing to the exploration of a full range of thoughts and feelings." MaryAnne Kolton explores writing about grief with Leah Hager Cohen (The Grief of Others).
12.01.2011Flash Fictionista Extraordinaire: Meg Pokrass | MaryAnne Kolton
Interview Editor MaryAnne Kolton talks shop with writer Meg Pokrass (Damn Sure Right) in the first of our new interview series featuring master writers on their craft.
9.29.2011
Embrace ambiguity. It’s your best friend. Remember what you enjoy, what moves you. Don’t ever trust your instincts: What you react against most strongly when you first see it may be what you embrace closely a few weeks from now. Notice what you return to, over and over. Celebrate every little victory.
3.24.2011
Order from Chaos: An Interview with poet C.M. Donahue | Lacey N. Dunham
I definitely search for meaning behind personal events through poetry. I seek to create a sense of order in my life and to understand why things are the way they are.
9.21.2010
Challenging the Norm: An Interview with poet Nicholas YB Wong | Lacey N. Dunham
I am using a language that belongs to somebody else to express myself. To a certain extent, I am still writing consciously in the interest of the West.
Order from Chaos: An Interview with poet C.M. Donahue | Lacey N. Dunham
I definitely search for meaning behind personal events through poetry. I seek to create a sense of order in my life and to understand why things are the way they are.
9.21.2010
Challenging the Norm: An Interview with poet Nicholas YB Wong | Lacey N. Dunham
I am using a language that belongs to somebody else to express myself. To a certain extent, I am still writing consciously in the interest of the West.