The Industry of Verse
Summer 2007. Vol. 30 No.1
A. J. Levin talks with Carla Funk and Alison Calder, as well as Kitty Lewis and Barry Dempster from Brick Books, and Coach House Books’ editor-in-chief, Alana Wilcox, about the ins and outs of the industry of verse.
Online content from this issue
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you tell me your happiest childhood memory
by Carla FunkIn a house without a toybox, everything felt like something. Your mother’s tweezers, a plastic fork, the lens from a... -
the word for rain
by Coreen BoucherSaturday morning, the air smelled of sticky rice, glutinous to the skin, steaming me slowly. By noon, the sky crackled... -
weather
by John Wall BargerHolding a spade in moonlight behind the café where we ate lunch this afternoon. Silver. Silver garbage cans and clotheslines... -
the nectarine room
by Jamella HagenBranches like fingers trace dark patterns across the bright walls of that room, I wonder at their boldness, sheer guts... -
from a height
by Shane NeilsonWhat vantage but depth? Barefoot, You took your place at the balcony edge and looked out: the dewed city slept;... -
An Interview with Carla Funk
Interviewed by CV2CV2: What is your process for preparing a manuscript for submission? What is most important about creating a package of... -
An Interview with Alana Wilcox, Editor-in-Chief of Coach House Books
Interviewed by CV2CV2: What got you interested in book publishing, and why have you chosen book publishing as a career? Alana Wilcox:... -
An Interview with Alison Calder
Interviewed by Sharon CaseburgSharon Caseburg: If you could be something other than a university professor, what would you be? Alison Calder: If I... -
An Interview with Di Brandt
Interviewed by CV2CV2: How can technology, which seems to so many writers and poets to be the antithesis to the natural creative... -
An Interview with Kitty Lewis and Barry Dempster of Brick Books
Interviewed by Sharon CaseburgSharon Caseburg: Brick must receive a considerable number of unsolicited poetry manuscripts each year. What process must a writer go...