This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Dr. Joshua Bennett, whose first collection, The Sobbing School, was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Matthew Olzmann, our guest judge for this year’s Myths & Fables Prize, which you can submit to here. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections,…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Julia Alvarez, who has returned to her “first love”—poetry—with her new collection, Visitations. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes.…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Patricia Smith, who won the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry for her collection The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, which was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Adedayo Agarau, whose collection The Years of Blood won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections,…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Grant Chemidlin, whose first collection was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Chrysanthemum (Chris) Watkins, whose poem “Prayer (II)” we published in 2024. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. We sought…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Gbenga Adesina, the Guest Judge of our poetry prize which is open for submissions until March 8th. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with Sean Hill, the Guest Judge of our poetry prize which will have winners announced this month. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out…
This month’s “In Retrospect” interview is with poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez. In this series, we ask renowned poets to look back over their poems and collections, mapping out their poetic processes. From her early writing to her most recent collection,…
