September 2011 
Homage to May Swenson
Maxine Kumin
"News from the Cabin" was the first Swenson poem I ever read. It leapt out at me from the pages
of the New Yorker in 1958 and I so admired it...the brilliance of imagery, the accuracy of depiction
speak to me still.
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An Interview with Mark Doty
Jona Colson
If you write a poem with the aid of a thesaurus, you will almost inevitably look like a person wearing clothing chosen by someone else. I am not sure that a poet should even own one of the damn things.
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Art, Faith, Mystery: An Interview with Greg Wolfe
Isaac Anderson
I sometimes compare us to the Miles Davis Quartet: everyone can solo, but man, we can play tight together
too. And when people are willing to speak up and say what they think, that gets you out of the danger of solipsism and self-pity.
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One Novel's Sojourn Through Culture Wars & Piracy
Robert Gover
Adored by millions but despised by those who believe it is their duty to control what the rest of us think, that book continues to have a mysterious sojourn through the vicissitudes of our cultural prides and prejudices,
our political left-right conflicts. Like its author, it's lucky to still be alive.
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An Interview with Janet Burroway
Jocelyn Cullity
Writing poetry can make you alert to sound, rhythm, repetition. Drama can teach intensity and brevity. The short story is good for making every word count, the novel for lushness and leisure, the essay for honesty.
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Blame it on Rio: The Strange Legacy of New York School Poetics, an Evolutionary Story of Delight & Dissipation
Tony Hoagland
What a wild history the New York School of poetry has had in the 20th century; when it appeared in the '50s, it seemed to be a minor art league, a post-collegiate avant-garde boy's club, and a sort of witty, urbane, campy friend to serious poetry-lots of talent, and fun, but not much gravitas, and no "orchestral" power.
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