Reading just the first few lines of the opening poem in Curiouser & Curiouser (Grayson Books, 2014) and especially the poem “The Switch,” reminded me of Richard Power’s novel The Echo Maker, a book that follows a neurologist as…
Browsing Tag
Slapering Hol Press
The myth of Demeter and Persephone is such a rich story to retell, a task taken up by other poets such as Louise Gluck, Alicia Ostriker, Rita Dove, and others. Talk about your interests in myth and why the…
I love your use of punctuation as titles in Six Portraits. You open your chapbook with the epigraph from Jennifer DeVere Brody, “Punctuation marks can serve as both sense and sensibility—as the most human element in certain sentences,” an…
chapbook poetry
the chapbook interview: Margo Taft Stever on publishing and mentoring chapbook poets
In Ordering the Storm Liz Rosenberg writes in her essay a “Journey without a Map” that she likes collections of poetry “to open outward. The more personal and particular poems tend to come at the beginning of my books,…
How did your chapbook, Driving Montana, Alone, begin? With loneliness. I had been moving every year for a few years, not really finding anything to hold me anywhere. I lived in Montana prior to writing poetry, moved to Illinois…