Acre’s Lisa Ampleman talks about her multifaceted roles as a poet and editor, her creative process, and the inspirations behind her third full-length collection, MOM IN SPACE.
An Interview with Lisa Ampleman
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Author Jenna Le on Form, Aesthetics, and Manatees
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Rob McLennan: 12 or 20 Questions with Ian Stansel
We’re very lucky to be blessed with another fantastic interview of an Acre author. This time it’s Ian Stansel, whose superb, haunting collection Glossary for the End of Days was released last September. Click here (or the image) to read his engrossing conversation...
The Cloudy House: Megan Grumbling on Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
Head over to The Cloudy House to take a look at the wonderful conversation they had with Acre poet Megan Grumbling about her new collection Persephone in the Late Anthropocene. She discusses Persephone as a “project book,” other authors and works that have used...
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 3
Nicola Mason: Because the book involves time travel, there are two Aarons and two Violets (what one reviewer calls a ménage à quatre). As readers, we are privy to the thoughts of both Violets—the impassioned musician in 1988 and the frazzled mother of two in 2006....
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 2
Nicola Mason: In your essay “A Phenomenology of Fiction,” you describe how modern philosophy and quantum physics undergird not just your characters’ perceptions but your writing methodology as well. I was particularly struck by Christopher Tilley’s treatment of...
An Interview with Thomas Legendre, Part 1
Nicola Mason: In Keeping Time, Aaron is an archaeologist—and American expat in Scotland—and his knowledge of Neolithic sites and rituals derives in large part from your script-writing research for Half Life, an environmental art event (taking place across a hundred...
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Interviewed by The Rumpus Poetry Club!
The always wonderful and supportive Rumpus Poetry Book Club sat down with The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons author Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers to talk about the book, “sonnet crowns, formal experimentation, the Mars rover, and getting enough sleep while parenting a...
Nancy Au on And the Next Thing You Know!
Nancy Au and Suzie ShermanNancy Au, author of last year’s Spider Love Song and Other Stories, got together with And the Next Thing You Know host Suzie Sherman to record the most recent episode of the podcast. Featured in this installment are some deep conversations...