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Selvage, Diaspora, and Lingual Processes: a Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
National Poetry Month 2020 By: Savannah Trent I sat down, well more accurately sat down and logged into google chat, to talk to poet Hoa Nguyen to ask her about identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience. Nguyen, whose 2016 book length collection of poems Violet Energy Ingots was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin prize in…
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Meet Your Professors! Interview One — cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 At the start of this semester, I wanted to begin a series of interviews with professors; I believe our faculty are what make the entire Miami English department special and I hoped to use the platform to showcase that. Now that so much has changed as a result of the pandemic,…
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Nīnauele me Jim Chapson — Interview by Paul Vogel
National Poetry Month 2020 Born in Honolulu in 1944, Jim Chapson attended San Francisco State University and received his MA in 1968. With his partner, the Irish poet James Liddy (1934–2008), he moved to Milwaukee in 1976 and taught in the UW-Milwaukee English Department as an adjunct until 2016. He served as Poet Laureate of…
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Art, Legacy, and Activism: An Interview with Siri Imani, by Kyle Flemings
National Poetry Month 2020 Siri Imani is an artivist who has galvanized the city of Cincinnati with her potent lyricism and star quality performances. Imani and her collective Triiibe, that includes the talented vocalist and musician Aziza Love, and the incredible beat maker and lyricist poet Pxvce (Peace), have performed nationwide and are quickly becoming…
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“The Time to Play among the Borders of the Possible is a Gift:” An Interview with cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 cris cheek is a documentary performance writer, sound composer, and photographer. They worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970’s to run a thriving open access print shop for little press poets. In 1981 they co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in…
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Sarah Gridley – Poetry as an Art of Making For, Interview by Dylan Ecker
National Poetry Month 2020 Hello all! March may have felt like years for a lot of us given the current state of affairs, but we have at last made it to April. April, of course, means that it is National Poetry Month! Here on the blog all month long we will be posting a lot…
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Translation aka Messing with Language: A Conversation with Roy Kesey
Back in September, I had the joy of interviewing author and translator Roy Kesey as part of our Annual Translation Symposium. We discussed Dark Constellations, translation, travel, the Norman Invasion of England, colonialism, poetry, Dr, Seuss, and our shared hatred of Ayn Rand’s books. Here you will find a (lightly) abridged transcript of our talk…
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Meet the 2019 Writer’s Harvest Readers!
As the days begin to shorten and the air begins to chill, once again we welcome a return of the annual Writer’s Harvest! Here is a sneak peek at who will be reading this year and what they have in store for us:
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Art, Poetry, and Translation: A Conversation with Martin Corless-Smith
On September 16 and 17, Miami University’s Creative Writing Program hosted a two-day Translation Symposium. Martin Corless-Smith, an English poet and translator, was one of the Symposium guests, alongside two other creative writers and translators, Poupeh Missaghi and Roy Kesey. Corless-Smith’s most recent book, Odious Horizons: Some Versions of Horace, was published by Miami University…
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A Conversation with MU Press Novella Prize Winner Paul Skenazy
To promote his novella “Temper CA,” published Jan. 2019 by Miami University Press, author Paul Skenazy sat down with Sam Keeling, a Creative Writing and Media & Culture major and Editorial Intern for the Press. Their discussion covered everything from Skenazy’s writing rituals (or lack thereof) to the nature of truth and memory. For more…