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A Poetic Toolkit: Meaning and Mystery with Brenda Hillman
Brenda Hillman is the 2021 Kapnick Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Virginia. Hillman has authored ten full-length collections, the most recent of which is
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). Her poems have also been collected in three chapbooks
The Firecage (A+Bend Press, 2000);
Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995); and
January 22, 2021
For the next installment in his series of interviews with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler corresponded with Martín Espada. Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator, including
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist
The Republic of Poetry. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn, he now lives in western Massachusetts.
Espada’s latest collection of poems,
Floaters, is available now from W.W. Norton & Company.
Peter Mishler: Could we begin by talking about the first poem in