New poems & an interivew with Bill Berkson in ZOLAND POETRY

I have new poems in Zoland Poetry #5. They are "Darkroom Dairies" and "all day dance 1963." In the same issue I also have an interview with Bill Berkson entitled "The Education of Poetry."

Here is the opening/introduction of my Berkson interview:

That the critic and the poet should be the same person is not a surprise when it comes to the work of Bill Berkson. Both activities have fruitfully informed each other in the over five decades that comprise the poems in his new and selected Portrait and Dream (Coffee House Press, 2009). But what is surprising is how each poem and each essay continue to be so distinctively and affectionately rendered. In his “Critical Reflections” Berkson writes that he’s interested in “communicating the spontaneously dense, specific and often paradoxical events of consciousness in the face of contemporary works,” and that he desires “to tell the polymorphous story of the thing.”

Zoland Poetry : An annual of contemporary writing from around the globe, Zoland Poetry brings together original unpublished poems, translations into English, and interviews with featured poets. Published and edited by Roland Pease and issue #5 edited with Christopher Mattison.