Split Lip Press/Magazine is excited for Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and her new chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars, a Split Lip Press release forthcoming on November 1st, 2014.
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He is the man, myth and legend, folks—Ed Harkness, runner-up of the Split Lip Press 2014 Uppercut Chapbook Awards. With his new chapbook, Ice Children, set to release in late November, we thought we'd chat with the poet on poetic matters.
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Interview: Lullskull, Ltd.
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Robert Wrigley is an institution. Besides being a decorated poet—a former Guggenheim Fellow, a two-time NEA fellow, winner of six Pushcart Prizes, author of ten collections of poetry, etc.—he is a dedicated teacher and all-around interesting person. Wrigley was generous enough to sit down with me to talk about his most recent collection of poems, Anatomy of Melancholy, and his most recent honor, a PNBA (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award).
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After checking out Georgia Kreiger's review of The sea with no one in it, I thought I'd see if the author would like to chat with Split Lip for a little while. The Canadian-Australian poet agreed, and we are grateful.
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Sometimes when you want new music, you’ve got to dig yourself out of whichever decade you’re stuck in (don’t nobody touch my precious ’90s!) and open your ears up to something fresh & new, and nothing is more as such than Liza Anne, Nashville Tennessee’s newest young lady of verse and melody. Liza was kind enough to chat with Split Lip for a while since I am a man of questions. I want to know her secrets, to know where she gets all of those wonderful toys.
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I was at a concert in Detroit and Cameron McGill was on the bill. I was fortunate to meet the talanted singer-songwriter, but my jaw dropped when our conversation shifted to poetry. He asked if I had checked out the latest Sharon Olds book, and I was all, “Somebody else in the rock circuit knows Sharon Olds?” So we talked shop, both music & poetry, and I couldn’t help but to invite him to spend some time with Split Lip for a chat about the arts.
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A single mother rents a fundamentalist preacher’s carriage house. A pop star contemplates suicide in the hotel room where Janis Joplin died. A philandering ex-pat doctor gets hooked on morphine while reeling from his wife’s death.
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