formal poetry

“You start out in difficulty”: An Interview with Dan Albergotti
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“You start out in difficulty”: An Interview with Dan Albergotti

ByMatthew Thorburn

Dan Albergotti is the author of two books of poems, The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008) and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as a limited-edition chapbook, The Use of the World (Unicorn Press, 2013). A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, he…

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“Bringing the Poem Back to the Actual”: An Interview with David J. Daniels

ByMatthew Thorburn

David J. Daniels writes poems that sneak up on you. Smart and worldly, emotional and funny, they convey a sense of life-as-it’s-lived: culture both high and low, our strivings and failings, the countless ways we let each other down and hold each other up. Because of the immediacy of voice and freshness of language, you…