Alina Reyes on Desire, Class, and the Gulag for Writers contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Alina Reyes about eroticism and class, independence from the publishing world, and what it means to earn one’s freedom.
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Interviews
Conversations with writers, thinkers, and cultural workers — exchanges that take form, politics, and intellectual life seriously.
Thomas Fink on Difficult Poetry, Yinglish, and the Political contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Thomas Fink about difficult poetry, Yinglish syntax, and whether a poem can carry political force without becoming a slogan or a blueprint.
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Cathryn Shea on the Particular, Memory, and the Social Life of Things contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Cathryn Shea about the particular as a way of knowing, the ghost of memory, and whether a poem can make the social life of ordinary things visible.
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Sheila E. Murphy on Form, Listening, and the Not-Yet contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Sheila E. Murphy about constraint and freedom, the distributed poetic I, and whether experimental poetry can still refuse the language of exchange.
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Apoplexius: Interview with Louis Bourgeois contemporary
Aleksey Porvin talks with Louis Bourgeois about writing from the glands, class that enters the sentence, and the prison as the place where a bourgeois order shows its face.
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Ocean and Teat contemporary
Louis Bourgeois talks with Gabriel Gudding about waste, Menippean satire, Richard Wilbur, and the long poem written in a moving car.
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Adeena Karasick on Sonic Warfare contemporary
Daniel Morris talks with Adeena Karasick about AI, Language poetry, Kabbalah, and the war in words behind Sonic Warfare.
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