Poet of the Month: Simon Perchik
“The subconscious is a gold mine, all you need is a pen in your hand.”
Simon Perchik, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Julie Haasova.
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Poet of the Month: Lauren Camp
“With writing, I have so much engagement inside of me: the breath and music of the words as they fill the page, the themes, and the urgency of what must be caught before it disappears…”
Lauren Camp, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Katy Lewis Hood.
Poet of the Month: Nathalie Handal
“It’s important our works are read beyond the wreckages of where we come from…”
Nathalie Handal, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Pratyusha Prakash.
Poet of the Month: Kim Yideum
“I don’t want to have an identity. I am just one of the regular people who carry wounds and sadness with them, but try to recover and live. I believe in the dignity of ordinary life.”
In our August Poet of the Month interview, Kim Yideum talks to Katy Lewis Hood (via translator Ji Yoon Lee).
Poet of the Month: Julia Rose Lewis
“Travelling back and forth is a privilege, but I’ve developed a sort of chronic homesickness. So I use writing about the place I’m longing for as an antidote; I see islands as stories and stories as islands.” Julia Rose Lewis, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for June 2016, in conversation with Katy Lewis Hood.
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Poet of the Month: Kadija Sesay
“Britain is a small island, and (it thinks) it can only handle one successful Black artist at a time…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Kadija Sesay talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Poet of the Month: Theophilus Kwek
“Form appeals to me as an open-ended conversation with the history of language…” Our Poet of the Month series returns with a conversation between Afshan Shafi and Theophilus Kwek.
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Poet of the Month: Priya Sarukkai Chabria
“Yours is a large question to which I provide partial answers, like fireflies going off…” In our February 2016 Poet of the Month interview, Priya Sarukkai Chabria talks to Pratyusha Prakash.
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Poet of the Month: Nancy Anne Miller
“…every poet writes from exile. For myself, it took me a long time to acknowledge I was an immigrant.” Nancy Anne Miller, The Missing Slate’s November 2015 Poet of the Month, talks with Afshan Shafi.
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Poet of the Month: Vicki Husband
“I got the sense that poetry is much more a part of life in Pakistan than it is in the UK…” Vicki Husband, The Missing Slate’s October Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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