Mary Gilliland is the author of The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020), winner of the Bright Hill Press Chapbook Competition, and Gathering Fire (Ithaca House, 1982). Her poetry has been anthologized in Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms In Our Hands, Strange Histories, The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, and Wild Gods. Poems have also appeared in AGNI, Poetry, Chautauqua, Poetry…
Category: poet Interviews
Poems on Food, Race, and Identity
Adrienne Su, Professor of Creative Writing and Poet-in-Residence at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, is the author of the newly released collection Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her previous books include Living Quarters, Having None of It, Sanctuary, and Middle Kingdom. In addition to appearing in five volumes of Best American Poetry, her work has been widely published in…
Grimoire, a New Collection
Cherene Sherrard is a poet, scholar, and essayist, and the Sally Mead Hands-Bascom Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. About her most recent poetry collection, Grimoire (Autumn House Press, 2020), Terrance Hayes writes, “Her ingredients are positively cornucopian, but it’s Sherrard’s keen, enlivening spirit that gives this remarkable book its flavor….[She] shows us how…
A Poet and Photographer
Rachel Eliza Griffiths is the author of Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton, 2020), which Edwidge Danticat describes as “radiantly elegiac,” a book “we all need for living, loving, and letting go.” Her other books include Lighting the Shadow, Mule & Pear, The Requited Distance, and Miracle Arrhythmia. Griffiths’ work has appeared in The New Yorker,…
Voice In and Out of Poetry
Cleopatra Mathis’ After the Body: Poems New and Selected, was published this year by Sarabande Books. In this eighth book of poems, as Michael Collier writes, one discovers “the resolute heart and keen human insights” that have made her one of “our most important and essential poets.” Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, notes her…
Women Sawn in Half
“The wonder is that not more women poets have headless or sawn women in their poems!” WTP poet Sue D. Burton on her collection BOX: the theme of women's bodies, finding a structure, and the personal inspiration. read more
Writing as a Soul Home
“Writing was a deeper imperative, my soul home—and I was the breadwinner for my family. Eventually I began to write about work—and the two worlds merged.” read more
Poetry as Tangible Language
"Poetry brings us back to tangible language and solid ground." A conversation with Poetry Editor Sara London and Jeffrey Harrison. read more
Nathan McClain
“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…
Robert B. Shaw
“The internet has made it easier for metrical poets to find each other.” Interview by Sara London, Poetry Editor Robert B. Shaw is the author, most recently, of A Late Spring, and After (Pinyon Publishing, 2016). Among his previous six collections are Aromatics, a co-winner of The Poets’ Prize, and Solving for X. He is…
Lee Briccetti
“I tell myself to live writing!” Interview with Sara London, Poetry Editor Lee Briccetti is the author of Blue Guide and Day Mark, poetry collections published by Four Way Books. She is also the Executive Director of Poets House, a national poetry library and literary center in New York City. Born in Italy, she earned…
Terri Witek
“I’m definitely happier now as a mixed-bag poet.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Terri Witek’s most recent book is The Rape Kit (2018). She is also the author of Body Switch (2016); Exit Island (2012); The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); Courting Couples, a winner of the 2000 Center for Book…