The writer on America’s fear culture, bookstores as community builders, and why writers should care about their character more than their characters.
Erica Wright talks to translator André Naffis-Sahely about translating one of Morocco's greatest living poets and the 'commodity' of despair.
“I wanted history I could touch like a flank of a beast.”
Erica Wright talks with a poet who didn’t set out to write about war.
The Guggenheim fellow on returning to free verse in her latest collection, the difficulty of being joyful, and why poetry has taken the place of religion in her life.
A conversation between poets about writing place, time, technology, and transformation.
Poet Jaswinder Bolina discusses writing about race, the process of being translated, and more.
Beth Harrison, interim director of the Academy of American Poets, talks about the value of a national poetry month, the well-versed movie, and Poem in Your Pocket Day.
| The events in Measure for Measure prove we have not come far enough when a man’s word still counts for more than a woman’s and when an elected official can play by a different set of rules than the rest of us. |