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Nate Mackey Interview, Part 3

I interviewed Nate Mackey a second time on August 24, 2012, via Skype. The first two segments of that interview are summarized here. In segment three, our discussion of his latest book Nod House continues. I asked him specifically about a quote in the book from Max...

Nate Mackey Interview, Part 2

In the first part of my latest (8.24.12) interview with poet, editor, essayist and novelist Nate Mackey, he discussed the serial poem, the open nature of it and how the poem itself guides the composition. In part two he discusses one of the main themes of his latest...

Interview with Nate Mackey

Ominous Animacy: Notes on an interview with Nate Mackey Interviewing Allen Ginsberg in 1994 introduced me to a deeper sense of Open Form. Interviewing Michael McClure in 1995 introduced me to Projective Verse. Reading the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Denise...

Nate Mackey

Nate Mackey – The Serial Poem Nathaniel Mackey, American poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor, is Professor of English at Duke University and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. The editor and publisher of Hambone since 1982, he won...
Lesley University COS 24 Talk

Lesley University COS 24 Talk

Lesley University COS 24 happens March 29, 2024 and I will give a talk on my graduate education and what has developed since then. COS stands for Community of Scholars and I am proud to be one, proud of what I did at Lesley and delighted with where it has led me. You...