This week Issue 30 Editor Dirk Marple asks Mary Ruefle for help with his colors and names. 

2/16/18

Editorial board member V. S. Ramstack chats with Lewis Mundt about finding pride in your poetry, the poems you invite to a collection, and Mundt's desert island playlist. Check it out!

We're up to something quite different today at CPR. After finding ourselves enmeshed in conversation with Olivia Cronk's ongoing, multimedia, multidimensional project Interro-Porn, we knew we had to get in touch with the author. Editorial board member Brandon Lee Vear had a conversation with Cronk that's fascinating and expansive. On this interview page, you'll also find new excerpts from the text of Cronk's Interro-Porn. Or click on the Twitter image below from Cronk's account, @InterroPorn, to read & experience.

Recently, CPR editorial board member Dan "Sully" Sullivan caught up with Muzzle Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Stevie Edwards and Poetry Editor Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. With Sully, they talk Muzzle, publishing, slam, aesthetics, and canon-busting. Inside, the editors also share picks of poems that they think exemplify their personal and collective visions.

CPR Editorial Board member David Fairbanks interviewed Chicago poet and conservationist Robbie Q. Telfer. Their conversation reflects on the potential of poetry's digital democratization, the significance of Louder Than a Bomb, and the importance of biodiversity. It's a fabulous conversation with some free prizes packed inside!

CPR was lucky enough to have a chat with the poet Michael Robins. At different points, the conversation veered toward the Neapolitan, living life with one B in your surname, the "grading of poems," and the importance of learning from the poets who left us this year. It's a wonderful read.

For our latest interview, former CPR Editor Natalia Kennedy sat down with our new Faculty Advisor, poet Tony Trigilio. Head over here for a brief excerpt and the full audio.

Dear readers, because of our prolonged absence, we thought we'd share a double-header with you this week. First up, CPR Editor Matthew DeMarco has a review of A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), by Caleb Curtiss (pictured above).




We're also quite pleased that Noelle Kocot (pictured above) agreed to grace us with a brief, and charming, CPR Interview. Kocot is the author of the forthcoming book Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, 2016).

After a string of reviews from the CPR Editors, we've decided to rest our analytical muscles and flex our conversational ones. Poet, performer, coach, and teacher Marty McConnell, whose poems "Patience" and "Supplication with Grimy Windowpane" conclude CPR no. 28, was gracious enough to share some thoughts with us.

McConnell's latest book is wine for a shotgun (EM Press, 2012).

Recently, CPR got the chance to chat with poet Dalton Day, and we were grateful for the opportunity. He cannot stop talking, he said, so we feel quite priviliged to be able to share some of his more choice words. Check out the interview over here.

Dalton Day is the author of the new chapbook Fake Knife, a collection of poems inspired by St. Vincent, the nom de band of songwriter Annie Clark. It is published by FreezeRay Press.