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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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Virtual Student Reading: 19 by Madi McGirr
National Poetry Month 2020 Here is the first in a series of student creative writing readings. Sophomore Madi McGirr reads her poem “19” which is after the poem “21” by Patrick Roche. You can read this poem as well as other poems and art by Madi in this year’s forthcoming issue of the Femellectual.
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Appreciation: Rae Armantrout’s “Bardos,” by Trevor Root
National Poetry Month 2020 Rae Armantrout, a San Diego native famous for her terse, funny, brainy poems, visited Miami to read from her poems last April. Thanks to generous funding from the Clark Capstone Fund, Armantrout was in Oxford for several days to visit classes and meet with students for individual conferences. Author of over…
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Encountering Each Other in New Ways by Venturing into “Canyons” — A Video Review
National Poetry Month 2020 To continue celebrating National Poetry month, today we have a video review of Canyons by Jessica Poli conducted by apprentice, Lauren Miles. To learn more about Canyons and BatCat press, check out their website.
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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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Creative Writing Alum and Faculty Reading
Two incredible authors w/ Miami U connections are talking about their new books TODAY! Join us for a Q&A hosted by @tsnesbit featuring alumna @megiddings and professor Cathy Wagner!! https://facebook.com/MiamiOHCreativeWriting/
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My Top 10 AWP Virtual Bookfair Purchases (and the Sales It’s Not Too Late to Take Advantage of!)
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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…