Coming
soon...
Emilie Heilig interviews AGNI
editor Sven Birkerts, and relates the history of that
literary magazine (April 20th). Lindsey Gould talks
with Ann Kjellberg about her new magazine, Little
Star, and asks why print publication makes
sense in the age of the screen (April 1st). Sandy SooHoo
interviews David Green, author of The
Garden of Love and Other Stories, forthcoming
this spring from The Pen & Anvil Press (March 20th).
June
25, 2009: Notes
on a Reading
Zachary Bos reports on a local literary reading featuring
Bret Anthony Johnston, Rosamond Purcell, and Melissa
Green.
May
15, 2009: An
interview with David Ferry
Call him the real hero of Gilgamesh... Erin
McDonagh sat down with poet and translator Ferry to
discuss his translation of the famous Sumerian epic.
July
31, 2008: An
interview with Jon Wooding
Erin McDonagh spoke with editor Jon Wooding about the
revival of Hawk & Whippoorwill, a journal
of poems "of man and nature," and about the
reading this week in celebration of the journal's first
new issue in forty years.
March
8, 2008: An
interview with Sam Cornish
Erin McDonagh caught up with Boston Poet Laureate Sam
Cornish at the Copley branch of the Boston Public Library,
to talk about the local literary scence, and his plans
as the first poet in his post.
March
2, 2007: Notes
on Robert Pinsky's First Things to Hand
From Julie Johnson's notes on first reading Robert Pinsky's
new chapbook: "There are plenty of wonderful elements
in these poems. The topics of "Banknote" are
nicely balanced, rippling with oscillations between
the tactile and the ethereal. The varied subjects of
"Newspaper" are wonderfully chosen."
June
30, 2006: Camus:
Carnets by George Kalogeris
From Amanda Bennett's review: "In Camus: Carnets,
George Kalogeris, translator and poet, transposes the
life of Albert Camus into a sequence of twelve-line
poems, a mirror consciousness of the late laureate.
The poems unfold as flashbacks “to past events
and states of mind that Camus re-experiences, just before
he dies from the impact of a car crash on January 4,
1960,” giving us, forty-six years later, a book
of stunning originality."
February
2, 2006: An
interview with Deborah Landau
In this year's first session of the BU University Professors
Poetry Reading Series, Deborah Landau will read in Room
505, Fifth Floor, College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth
Avenue on February 2, 2006. Deborah Landau’s collection
of poems, Orchidelirium, a National Poetry
Series Finalist, was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as
winner of the 2003 Anhinga Prize in Poetry and shortlisted
for the 2004 Foreword Book of the Year Award. In this
interview, Bobby Kennedy asks about her influences,
her intentions, and her feelings about public reading.
