Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She is the author of the poetry collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012). Her honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis … Continue reading THE LETTERS WERE ONCE BODIES: A CONVERSATION WITH NATALIE DIAZ
NEIL MYERS joined the Purdue English Department in 1960 as a "scholar writer," and when the Creative Writing MA program began in the late eighties, became a committed regular there too. Retired in 1995, & moved to California. Passions include family, dharma, & revisiting Stevens, Miloscz, Amichai et al, cover to cover. What can you … Continue reading Micro-Interview with Neil Myers
DORIANNE LAUX is the author of several collections of poetry, including What We Carry (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Facts about the Moon (2005), winner of the Oregon Book Award and also a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Book of Men (2011), which was awarded the Paterson … Continue reading Micro-Interview with Dorianne Laux
ADAM JOHNSON is a Professor of English at Stanford University. Winner of Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the 2015 National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was … Continue reading Micro-Interview with Adam Johnson
JOSH BELL teaches at Harvard University and is the author of No Planets Strike and Alamo Theory. He has taught for the MFA programs at Columbia University and the University of Iowa and has sometimes served as poetry liaison to Cosmopolitan magazine. Josh Bell's poem, "And a White Sow for Juno on Tuesday," was originally … Continue reading Micro-Interview with Josh Bell
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the … Continue reading Sex, Death, Gender, Bodies, Sex, Death, Illness, Sex, Death, Bodies: A Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado
Following is an interview conducted by Lauren Mallet for Sycamore Review in October 2015. Mary Ruefle is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of erasures, a book of collected lectures, a book of prose, and a comic book. Madness, Rack & Honey, her book of lectures, was a finalist for the 2012 … Continue reading It’s Exactly like Having to Pee, but It’s in Your Head: A Conversation with Mary Ruefle
Following is an interview conducted by Megan Denton Ray for Sycamore Review on April 12, 2017. Winner of a 2018 Pushcart Prize, Dana Roeser is the author of All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, forthcoming, as winner of the Wilder Prize, from Two Sylvias Press in 2019. Her three previous books of poetry are The Theme … Continue reading Mystery Tending: A Conversation with Dana Roeser
Don Share became the editor of Poetry in 2013. His books of poetry are Wishbone (2012), Squandermania (2007), and Union (2013, 2002). He is the co-editor of The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine(2012), and editor of Bunting's Persia (2012) and a critical edition of Basil Bunting's poems (2016). He is the translator of Field Guide: Poems by Dario Jaramillo Agudelo (2012), Miguel Hernández (2013), and I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems by … Continue reading And Then You Find That the Poetry Teaches You: A Conversation with Don Share
This conversation took place on January 30, 2017 at Purdue University’s Brown Hall. Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in California and Indiana. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden (2003), won the 2002 New York / New England Award. His second collection, Mixology (2009), was a winner of the … Continue reading Taking a Guitar and Trying to Make an Omelet with It: A Conversation with Adrian Matejka
