Emily Kendal Frey is the author of The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2011), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award (2012), as well as several chapbook and chapbook collaborations, including Airport (Blue…
Category: Interviews
Barbara Claire Freeman interviews Edward Sugden
Edward Sugden is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford working on nineteenth century American literature. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Oxonian Review, co-founder and an editor of the online webzine Wave Composition, and his reviews have…
Barbara Claire Freeman interviews Andrew Wessels
Andrew Wessels has lived in Houston, Cambridge, and Las Vegas, where he held the John Cobain Fellowship from Black Mountain Institute. Currently, he splits his time between Istanbul and Los Angeles. His poems, translations, and collaborations can recently be found…
Rusty Morrison interviews Melissa Kwasny
one of the two co-editors of the anthology I GO TO THE RUINED PLACE: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights Co-editors of the anthology: Melissa Kwasny is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Nine…
Barbara Claire Freeman interviews Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of five books, and the editor of several projects: The Volta, Letter Machine Editions, as well as two anthologies from University of Iowa Press. In 2011, IndiePix Films released…
Poets, Presses & Periodicals: Canarium Books
Poets, Presses & Periodicals is a new feature of OmniVerse: a conversation with the publisher of a small press or periodical, a poet they have chosen to highlight, and one of our OmniVerse editors. A poem and audio recording of…
Turner Canty interviews Mary Jane Nealon
Mary Jane Nealon RN, MFA is the author of BEAUTIFUL UNBROKEN: One Nurse’s Life (Graywolf Press; 2011) and has published two collections of poetry: Rogue Apostle (Fourway Books; 2001) and Immaculate Fuel (Four Way Books; 2004). She is the recipient…
Peter Burghardt interviews Wayne Miller
Wayne Miller is the author of three poetry collections: The City, Our City (Milkweed, 2011), The Book of Props (2009), and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He also translated Moikom Zeqo’s I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007)…
Turner Canty interviews Kevin Prufer
Kevin Prufer is the author of, among others, In a Beautiful Country (Four Way Books, 2011) and National Anthem (Four Way books, 2008), named one of the five best poetry books of the year by Publishers Weekly. He’s also editor…
Rusty Morrison interviews rob mclennan
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in Canada, the United States, Ireland, Japan and England, he has published work in…