An Interview with GC Waldrep
Interview by LISA TALLIN Black Warrior Review: So first of all I just wanted to ask you—you had a reading last night, and how do you feel reading your work out loud? GC Waldrep: How do I feel? I like to read my work out loud. I trained as a singer and the idea that...
An Interview with Noy Holland
Interview by JUAN CARLOS REYES Black Warrior Review: There is no particular way to get this started. I usually start with an icebreaker question… How are you enjoying Tuscaloosa so far? Noy Holland: It’s good. I met a lot of nice people. Yeah, I like the trees. I...
An Interview with Sabrina Orah Mark
Interview by JUAN REYES Black Warrior Review: How does setting play into your writing? Sabrina Orah Mark: I generally like the sleepy towns, the quietness. I’m living in Athens, Georgia, now, which is filled with ghosts, so that becomes inspiring. I lived in Iowa City...
An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Interview by J. KIRK MAYNARD Joan Houlihan’s latest book of poems, The Us (Tupelo, 2009), revives the poet as storyteller with a tale of primitive tribesmen known as the “us,” surviving outside civilization. The story is told from the collective viewpoint of the Us,...