Bertha Rogers
More than 500 of Bertha Rogers’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies; and in several chapbooks and full-length collections, among them Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2011); and Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991). She is completing What Want Brings: New and Selected Poems (also to be published by Salmon in […]
Traci Brimhall
Traci Brimhall is the author of four poetry collections: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Her poems […]
Dr. Seema Yasmin
Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications. Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize […]
Paige Ackerson-Kiely
Paige Ackerson-Kiely is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Dolefully, a Rampart Stands (Penguin 2019).
She’s the director of the MFA in Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives in New York City.
Adeeba Shahid Talukder
Adeeba Shahid Talukder is a Pakistani American poet, translator, and singer. She is the author of What Is Not Beautiful (Glass Poetry Press, 2018) and her debut collection, Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved (Tupelo Press, 2020), is a winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Glass, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and The Margins, and her translations in PBS Frontline and Words […]
Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver, photo by Pavel Antonov Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years. He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980’s. This is his third interview with Brainard Carey in this series. From 1988 to […]
Catherine Pierce
Catherine Pierce is the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days, published by Saturnalia Books in October 2020. Her other books are The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of Peculiar, and Famous Last Words. Pierce’s work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, The […]
Edgar Oliver
Edgar Oliver is a writer and performer who has lived and worked in New York for many years. He started out reading his poems and performing monologues at the Pyramid night club in the early 1980’s. From 1988 to 2001 he wrote and staged a series of autobiographical plays – premiering a new play almost […]
George Abraham
George Abraham (they/he) is a Palestinian american poet from Jacksonville, FL. They are the author of Birthright (Button Poetry) and the specimen’s apology (Sibling Rivalry Press). He is a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Boston Foundation, and a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI). Their poetry and nonfiction have […]
Michael Bazzett
Michael Bazzett is a poet, teacher, and translator. His debut collection of poems, You Must Remember This, won the Linquist & Vennum Prize in 2014, and his fourth collection, The Temple, was published by Bull City Press in 2020. His fifth book, The Echo Chamber, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2021. His work has appeared […]