Inside the Blanket Fort Published July 2, 2021 at 3:53 PM CDT Listen • 5:29
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Inside The Blanket Fort as we begin a new conversation with Poet Jehanne Dubrow about her collection, Dots & Dashes, published in 2017 as part of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
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Blanket Fort Radio Theater.
Blanket Fort Radio Theater is a storytelling initiative of SIU Press in collaboration with the SIU Creative Writing Program and WSIU Radio.
The Writer’s Chronicle, and
The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
INTRODUCTION
Being a poet has taught me the value of practice and patience. I have learned that my next poem will reveal itself to me if I simply follow language by engaging with it through my (mostly) daily reading and writing practice and if I wait for that small, persistent thing a scrap of language, an image, a question that won’t leave me alone that opens a door in my mind. I’ve also learned that for me, at least poetry is slow. I often work on poems for several years before they’re finished. This morning, I think I finally found the right form for a poem I’ve been working on for four years. Last month, I finished a poem I started working on in 2010. My poems spend a long time resting, waiting for me to come back around and try again to get it right. I’m not a particularly patient person in other
Arthur Solway’s poetry and essays have appeared in The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, BOMB, The London Magazine, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He was cited among the 2018 finalists for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, finalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Award in 2019, and the 2020 finalist for Anhinga Press-Robert Dana Prize
Arthur Solway’s poetry and essays have appeared in
The Antioch Review, Barrow Street, BOMB, The London Magazine, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. He was cited among the 2018 finalists for the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, finalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Award in 2019, and the 2020 finalist for Anhinga Press-Robert Dana Prize for Poetry. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, his critical reviews, profiles, and cultural essays have also been featured in Artforum, Frieze, and Art Asia Pacific magazines. Winner of the 2019 Tupelo Press Third Annual Broadside Competition, he presently lives in Santa Cruz, California.