Samira Negrouche, author of The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems, and translator Marilyn Hacker discuss their collection with Pleiades Press intern Lauren Logan. In this stunning addition to the Pleiades Press Translation Series, published in February 2020, Samira Negrouche confronts a war-torn Algeria, amidst the Arab Spring, cataloguing, in her luminary genre-bending poetry, grief,…
Penelope Cray won the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose for her collection Miracles Come on Mondays (Pleiades Press 2020). Here, Cray discusses her new collection with University of Central Missouri student Ashley Herndon. Please visit LSU Press to order a copy of the book, or it will be available for purchase through Pleiades…
Pleiades interns Jessica Carnnahan and Katherine Gill interviewed Angela Voras-Hills, author of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize-winning poetry collection, Louder Birds, just out from Pleiades Press. JC/KG: We really enjoyed reading your new collection, Louder Birds. In poems such as “When All Around Us Sky And One Perpetual Flame” and “In Which I Hoard The Air Escaping,” you…
Activism, Poetry, and Crip Linguistics: An Interview with the Editors of the New Unsung Masters Collection, Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now, lesser-known American poet, who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights,…
Joshua Cobb interviews Heidi Czerwiec about her latest collection of essays from Pleiades Press, Winner of the Robert C. Jones Prize, Fluid States. Poet and essayist Heidi Czerwiec is the author of the recently-released lyric essay collection Fluid States, winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, and the poetry collection…
Ashley M. Jones is a poet, organizer, and educator from Birmingham, Alabama. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press, 2017) and dark / / thing (Pleiades Press, 2019). Her poetry has earned local and national awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver…
by Savannah Bradley JENNY MOLBERG is the author of Marvels of the Invisible, which won the 2014 Berkshire Prize (Tupelo Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry International, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Green Mountains Review, The Missouri Review, and other publications. She is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she…
by Monica Braun Amy Meng is a Kundiman Fellow and poetry editor at Bodega Magazine, as well as a 2016 Amy Award winner. Her debut collection Bridled dissects the the vulnerability of lovers as well as the limits of love in relation to happiness. Her poetry has appeared in Day One, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Narrative Magazine, and the New England Review, among…
by Tera Swearngin Benjamin Johnson is an associate professor at the University of Central Missouri. His articles on modern poetry and culture have appeared in venues including Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Arizona Quarterly, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. How did you get interested in the work of Beatrice Hastings? I stumbled upon her while doing research for…