Tom Harrison, back row, center; Joanne Landy, second row, right This interview was originally published in Left History. This version is reposted from New Politics, where it was republished in 2018. Joanne Landy died in 2017. See here for a brief obituary. Introduction
The most intense recent experience I’ve had writing poetry was composing a piece called “People Without Names,” a long poem recently published in Eileen Myles’s Pathetic Literature anthology (Grove Press, 2023). I wrote it in January 2021, still living in Alphabet City during the endlessness of the global pause.
An exploration of girlhood and womanhood, Lost on Me, which has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024, stands out for its humour and solid punch lines