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A Conversation with Carl Phillips on the 100th Anniversary of the Yale Younger Poets Prize
“From the start, I had a diversity of submissions, and this seems to have been the result of my having been announced as the judge. As soon as that happened, there was a lot of conversation among writers of color and queer writers, suggesting that they felt the Yale series was becoming more open.”
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Food, Drink & Poetry: A Conversation with Emily O’Neill
“I think of the emotional connection between big life events and food, like — what was I eating when my dad died? Was I eating when my dad died? Or what do you eat when you break up with someone, or what do you eat when you’re depressed?”
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“The Mystery of Persistence” // a Conversation About Poetry with G. C. Waldrep, curated by Victoria Chang
“When I was at Iowa in the MFA program, I was surprised by how many of my peers weren’t waiting to be astonished. As readers, they went to literature for something else.”