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Department of English College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

New Interviews

Joanna Pearson

Tuesday December 16, 2025

Interviewed by Naomi Silverman Interview Conducted on December 12, 2025 What started “Deviants”? Why did you need to tell us this story? Back when I was in grad school getting an MFA in poetry, one of the other poets shared this theory that everyone is either a deviant, a conformist, or a recluse, and yet […]

Reyumeh Ejue

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Yolanda Kwadey Interview Conducted on April 2, 2025 What prompted you to write “Natives”? I promise not to let this response get too longwinded because it’s a favorite chew-bone of mine, haha! I’m from Nigeria, but I now live in the US. When I was in Nigeria, I couldn’t wait to leave, just […]

Ernest Hilbert

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Chloe Cook and Taylor Light “Swimming South Off Key West” and “Unruled” exhibit a subtle and pleasant attention to sound, especially with internal rhyme. How do you employ prosody in your work? Do you actively reach for the rhymes, or do they subconsciously make their way into your poems? The sound of a […]

Brett Hymel Jr.

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Albertine Clarke In “Sweepstakes,” you have two ostensibly extraterrestrial characters, Glorp and Thoraxis. One of the things that interests me the most about this story is the role of the extraterrestrial, both within Dean’s internal world and outside of it. To phrase it as simply as I can—in writing, what is the role […]

Piotr Florczyk

Friday May 16, 2025

Interviewed by Jonathan Wolf You’ve said that your earliest poems (“doodles of thought and emotion”) arrived shortly after you moved from Kraków to California. What can you say about the urge to write? Was there any initial, galvanizing experience that set you chattering? And at what point—and how—did writing become more than a mere enjoyment? […]