Poems from Mariella Nigro’s Memory Rewritten and interview by Mihaela Moscaliuc with translators Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas
Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas in conversation with Mihaela Moscaliuc Mihaela Moscaliuc: I am excited we are able to feature six poems from Mariella Nigro’s Memory Rewritten, forthcoming this spring from White Pine Press. Starting with the first poem, loss announces its insistent presence and calls attention to the ways in which language can or can not contain
Moral Issues in Poetry: David Baker, Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jenny George, John Murillo, Catherine Pierce collected by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Moral Issues in Poetry: David Baker, Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jenny George, John Murillo, Catherine Pierce I am often impressed by – though rarely completely sure of its nature and scope— poems that offer a window into the speaker’s sense of morality. In hopes of some measure of enlightenment, I invited six poets to offer one such poem of
In conversation with the world: Three poems & an interview with Vivek Narayanan, by Leeya Mehta
In conversation with the world Three poems & an interview with Vivek Narayanan, by Leeya Mehta “My theory is that political poems help us capture and hold these contradictions in a productive tension. I believe the wildness of poetry is its greatest political asset.” – Vivek Narayanan Vivek Naryayanan’s After is a collection of poems inspired
Joan Houlihan, interview and poems from “It Isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest” with Ann van Buren
This interview with Ann van Buren was conducted via Zoom and through e-mail, several months after the publication of It Isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest (Four Way Books), winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award. Ann van Buren: Joan, thank you for taking the time to talk about your work. I’ve been immersed in your
Contemporary Romanian Poets compiled by Radu Vancu
Danny Lawless’s generous invitation for a Romanian presence in Plume placed in an awful embarras de choix: there is so much wonderful poetry written today in Romanian, that I am obviously unfair to many other superlative Romanian poets with this narrow selection. But then the reader is kindly asked to take this selection not as canon – but as a sample.
