Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872331946 ISBN 13: 9780872331945

Publisher: Bauhan Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews is a collection of discussions with contemporary poets, ranging from established elders like W.S. Merwin and Maxine Kumin to dazzling newcomers like Aracelis Girmay and the Dickman brothers, Matthew and Michael. In conversation with Christian McEwen, they describe their habitual writing practice, influences, and development, as well as their sense of the American poetry scene, and whatever else comes up in the course of a long, thoughtful, richly meandering exchange.

The sixteen interviewed poets are:

Annie Boutelle
Matthew Dickman
Michael Dickman
Patrick Donnelly
Rita Dove
Nikky Finney
Aracelis Girmay
Edward Hirsch

Jane Hirshfield
Yusef Komunyakaa
Maxine Kumin
Gwyneth Lewis
W.S. Merwin
Patricia Smith
Chase Twichell
Jean Valentine

About this title

About the Author:

Christian McEwen is a writer, educator, workshop facilitator, and cultural activist. Since leaving New York City twenty years ago, she has edited two anthologies and produced a video documentary, Tomboys!, and a play, Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money. Her book, World Enough and Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down (Bauhan 2011), is now in its sixth printing and is also available in an audio format. Her most recent collection is Sparks from the Anvil: the Smith College Poetry Interviews, Bauhan 2015). Christian grew up in the borders of Scotland and now lives in western Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bauhan Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0872331946
• ISBN 13: 9780872331945
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: McEwen Christian