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Live Wires: A Conversation with Sumita Chakraborty
Jonathan Farmer interviews Sumita Chakraborty about her new book, “Arrow.”...
Jonathan Farmer
Jonathan Farmer is the author of That Peculiar Affirmative: On the Social Life of Poems and the poetry editor and editor in chief of At Length. He teaches middle and high school English, and he lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Articles
“Somebody Told Me My Body’s Not Mine to Hold”: An Interview with Erica Dawson
Jonathan Farmer interviews poet Erica Dawson about her new book, “When Rap Spoke Straight to God.”...
Loose and Double: A Conversation with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Jonathan Farmers interviews Gabrielle Calvocoressi about her new collection, "Rocket Fantastic."...
In Ruins
David Baker's 10th collection of poems is itself strikingly ambivalent about science, cherishing the insights it offers into the nonhuman world....
“Writing and Holding”
On Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts."...
Signifying Nothing
Thoughts on Confidence, Depression, and Shakespeare...
How Much Does “Does Poetry Matter” Matter?
This weekend, The New York Times asked, "Does Poetry Matter?" Today, Jonathan Farmer asks, "Do Questions Like This Matter?"...
“A Ravishing Mind”: On the Pleasures of Linda Gregerson’s Poems
IT SEEMS RIGHT that the titles of Linda Gregerson’s last three books, combined, take up just five words. Gregerson loves the pun-ish potential of language, the way the entangled accidents of time, circumstance, want, and will make meaning possible, and ...
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