#interviews

HS: I think that idea of writing with a muse is about absorbing the complexity of their being. You’ve talked about Keats.

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INTERVIEWER What did you mean when you said that a poem should act like an empty suitcase? KAY RYAN It’s a clown suitcase:...

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Oh, I love music. I think that, together with syntax, music is the DNA of the poem. Poems come to me in various forms,

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In Bosnian, there are no words that are equivalent to “fiction” and “nonfiction,” or that convey the distinction between

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“First of all, I never thought that I’m good at dancing. But I began to like dancing when I was young. It was my friends

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I was a refugee in the for eleven years before becoming a permanent resident. I did not go back to Libya for 20 years,...

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I see the world through the lens of the person I am, and two major components of that are my gender and my faith. I don’t

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