Month: February 2018

In the Time of PrEP: An Interview with Jacques J. Rancourt

By Soham Patel

Soham Patel: What have you been reading lately? How is it influencing your new writing?

Jacques Rancourt: With poetry, I’d been so focused the last few years on poets who write carefully chiseled poems that lately I’ve been drawn to …

Soham Patel joined The Georgia Review in 2018 where she works as an assistant editor and manages the book review section. She is the author of four chapbooks of poetry including and nevermind the storm and New Weather Drafts (both from Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs) and the full-length collections to afar from afar (Writ Large Press, 2018) and ever really hear it (Subito Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Subito Prize. Patel is a Kundiman fellow and a poetry editor at Fence. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, an MA in English from Western Washington University, and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she served for four years as a poetry editor at cream city review.

The Work Lives Outside of Me: Talking with Erin Adair-Hodges

By Colette Arrand

 

Colette Arrand: Your first published poem, “Of Yalta,” won the 2015 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. It’s also the poem that opens your debut collection Let’s All Die Happy. You’ve lived with this poem for some time now. Is …

Colette Arrand

Colette Arrand

Colette Arrand is the author of Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon (Opo Books & Objects, 2017), and the co-editor of The Wanderer. Her poetry and essays have appeared in CutBank, Fanzine, The Toast, and elsewhere.

on Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

By David Nilsen
From the Winter 2017 Issue

Kaveh Akbar’s debut poetry collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, is about the essential consequences of incarnation, is a sensory catalog of wounds and wonders, vices and pleasures. His poems—fragmented, plaintive, at points frantic—are occupied with what it means …

David Nilsen, a writer and former librarian living in Ohio. He is a National Book Critics Circle member, and his writing has appeared in The Rumpus, The Millions, Rain Taxi, Open Letters Monthly, the National Book Critics Circle Critical Mass blog, and many other publications. Outside the literary world, he is a professional beer writer and educator and Certified Cicerone. He lives with his wife, daughter, and a very irritable cat.

on June in Eden by Rosalie Moffett

By Catherine A. Rogers
From the Winter 2017 Issue

Poets have been lamenting the recalcitrance of language at least since Byron’s Childe Harold complained in the early nineteenth century that he had not found “words which are things.” Approaching the midpoint of the twentieth, T. S. Eliot observed in …

Catherine Rogers teaches English at Savannah State University. Her work has appeared in Kalliope: A Journal of Women’s Art, Paideuma, and Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, as well as in the online journals Autumn Sky Poetry and Touch: The Journal of Healing. She cherishes happy memories of having been the very first graduate editorial assistant of The Georgia Review.

Pattern and Design

By Robin Becker
From the Winter 2017 Issue

What gives a poem with political content its force? How does a poet use lyrical tools—in a book-length narrative—to critique powerful institutions when those very institutions seem too large and unwieldy to describe? In their new poetry collections, two contemporary …

Robin Becker’s new book of poems, The Black Bear Inside Me (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), appears in the Pitt Poetry Series. Her previous books with Pitt include Tiger Heron (2014), Domain of Perfect Affection (2006), All-American Girl (1996), The Horse Fair (2000), and Giacometti’s Dog (1990). Recent poems have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. The Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State, Becker serves as contributing and poetry editor for the Women’s Review of Books.

on Big Thicket Blues by Natalie Giarratano

By Katherine Hoerth
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Katherine Hoerth is the author of five poetry books, including The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue (Angelina Press, 2017) and Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots, which won the 2015 Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is an assistant professor of English at Lamar University and is editor-in-chief of Lamar University Literary Press. Her poetry and reviews have been published in journals such as Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, and Southwestern American Literature.

on Bestiary by Donika Kelly

By Claire Schwartz
From the Winter 2017 Issue

To say anything about Donika Kelly’s gorgeous debut poetry collection Bestiary is difficult. The book takes its title from illustrated volumes made popular in the Middle Ages that categorize real and imaginary animals. In classical bestiaries—which often fasten each …

Claire Schwartz is the author of bound (Button Poetry, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Apogee, Bennington Review, the Massachusetts Review, and Prairie Schooner, and her essays, reviews, and interviews in the Iowa Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. 

on Certain Relevant Passages by Joe Manning

By Mike Good
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Mike Good’s recent writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Salamander, Forklift, OH, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Hollins University, helps edit the After Happy Hour Review, and lives in Pittsburgh, where he works as a grant writer.

on 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers, edited by Valerie Lawson

By Ellen Sander
From the Winter 2017 Issue
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Ellen Sander, a New York rock journalist and author of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (1973), was the poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, in 2013 and 2014. Her short collection, Hawthorne, a House in Bolinas, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2017, and her poetry has been published in journals including the Maine Review, Oculus Vox, Fredericksberg Literary and Art Review, and the American Journal of Poetry.