May/Summer 2011 
A Conversation with Martha Collins
Elizabyth Hiscox, Cynthia Hogue, & Lois Roma-Deeley
A dazzling poet whose work is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the 20th century-including Hiroshima, Nazi death camps, and female circumcision-in supple and complex poems.
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Self-Awareness & Self-Deception: Beyond the Unreliable Narrator
Sarah Stone
We refer to reality as if it were tangible-a geographical location or an absolute and identifiable state-but writers often arrive at the reality of the world of their story, if ever, as a kind of byproduct of the characters' everyday self-delusions.
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A Poet's Anti-Rule Book
Steve Kowit
Moreover, the distinction between showing and telling is often murky or nonexistent. Any quick look at good writing will demonstrate that effective writers spend a great deal of their time telling the reader what is happening
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An Interview with Sherman Alexie
K.E. Semmel
For about eight years, I couldn't write Thomas after Evan played him. He disappeared. He was gone. Completely gone. All I could see was Evan.
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Lowell's Legacy
Joy Ladin
In poetry, the linguistic medium is to a great extent the message, and in shifting his rhetorical range, Lowell simultaneously shifted his range of meaning and matter, exchanging one set of freedoms and anxieties for another.
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A Conversation with Leslea Newman
Renée Olander
The content really dictates the form. So I will start writing-usually with either an image or a voice, and I follow that to see where it is going, and at some point this is revealed to me: this is a picture book, or, this is a poem.
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"We are all Greek": The Case of Three Contemporary Greek Poets
Maria Koundoura
The multilingual, mixed media, high and low cultural poetics of Kalokyris cannot be contained within a national literary tradition, not even a cosmopolitan one. Though cosmopolitan, he is not the cosmopolitan man of letters...
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