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From Coal to Concrete: Writing For Wales

From Coal to Concrete: Writing For Wales
an interview with Peter Finch by lloyd robson Peter Finch in Budapest an interview with Peter Finch by lloyd robson Cardiff, 1947. Heavy snow on the ground. On the hill between the crass and the class, a babe is born. The parents name their boy-child Peter. Peter Finch. Little did they know their little Peter-Rock would not grow up to be a hard-drinking, hell-raising, movie star like his namesake,... 

Reinventing Armenia: Poetry after the Genocide

Reinventing Armenia: Poetry after the Genocide
Reinventing Armenia: Poetry after the Genocide, by Catherine Fletcher. Co-edited by Lola Koundakjian. Family (2008), by Hagop Hagopian, courtesy of the artist, http://www.hagopianart.com by Catherine Fletcher; poetry co-edited by Lola Koundakjian. The years from 1915 to 1921 were the turning point in modern Armenian history.  During 19th century Ottoman and Russian domination, Armenians experienced... 

A Good Time for Prose

A Good Time for Prose
An Interview with Christopher Merrill, by Rebecca McKay. An Interview with Christopher Merrill by Rebecca McKay I loved reading your new poems for the issue. Can you talk a little bit about your interest in the prose poem as a form? In the fall of 1989, which seems like a lifetime ago, I began to experiment with the prose poem, writing, sometimes automatically, the first draft of what by fits and... 

A Tent of Words

A Tent of Words
A Tent of Words: Meena Alexander, by Craig Epplin by Craig Epplin Meena Alexander opens her recent Poetics of Dislocation (2009) with these words: The new American poet thinks in many tongues, all of which flow into the English she uses: a language that blossoms for her. Places stick to her and with them histories, strands of local knowledge. She is aware of violence and warfare, she has experienced...