Won’t you join Karen Eileen Sisk (five poems in nov. issue) as she tells us why preserving a room full of a bunch of dead people and Judy Blume while unleashing the concentrated blabbermouth of anger at the lush from a living room couch is the only way to live.

1) If you could create a room with any 3 people who’ve ever existed in there. Would you make a room you’d want to visit or destroy? and why?

I would create a room I would visit. I think because my instinct is always to preserve rather than destroy. I love museums, antiques, collections that have been carefully collected and preserved. So it seems natural to build collections of good and/or important people. My room would sort of be a museum preserving say Jim Henson, Mr. Rogers, and Judy Blume. Or I’d have one with Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and H.D. It would be a museum to people that I’d want to visit regularly. Poor Judy Blume, I lumped her in with a bunch of dead people.

2) Name a poet no one reads but should?

Even though I’ve spent the last 7 years in graduate school, I never feel like I have a good sense of who people read and who they don’t. I guess I would recommend Lynn Emanuel because I get the sense that not enough people read her books. She really crafts a book. Continue reading →