Chard deNiord is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (2020), as well as two books of interviews with eminent American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth-Century Poetry (2011) and I Would Lie to You if I Could (2018). He taught English and creative writing at Providence College for twenty-two years, where he is now professor emeritus. For the past four years, he has worked as the essay editor at Plume poetry journal, and from 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont.
A path in Camp Thorpe, Goshen, Vermont / Photo by AdamChandler86 / Flickr
Although it’s been nearly twelve years now since Ruth Stone died on November 19, 2011, I’m struck by how profound, poi...
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The following interview with Ada Limón took place shortly after her appointment, in July 2022, as the 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Con...
Video still by Bill Viola for the Paris Opera’s production of Tristan und Isolde, 2004/2005. Photo by Kira Perov / Flickr
After going for several long walks with Dennis Nurkse in sout...
As a longtime admirer of Chase Twichell’s powerfully spare poetry that combines the wisdom of her Zen practice with her sharp perspicacity for ordinary things, I have wanted to engage in a convers...
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Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), which won the 2016 Vermont Book Award and was hailed in the...
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner
This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner
This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner
This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house...
Jane Hirshfield and Donald Hall at the Hall-Kenyon Prize ceremony (Concord, New Hampshire, October 24, 2012)
This interview was first conducted on October 24, 2012, at the Concord Public Library in C...