Left Lion Magazine
In the summer of 2010 a good friend and remarkable poet, Éireann Lorsung, organised a seven-month project and poetry exchange "I am an American Poet: This is American Poetry" in Nottingham. I was fortunate enough to be able to interview two of the visiting poets, Zachary Carlsen and Laressa Dickey, and published both interviews in Nottingham's arts and culture magazine Left Lion.
You can find the interviews here:
"An Interview with American Poet Zachary Carlsen" (8 July 2010)
"An Interview with American Poet Laressa Dickey" (19 June 2010)
As well as being a poet, Zachary Carlsen is the founder and publisher of the very stylish Gendun Editions, a fine art press in the United States, and he has published poems in a wide range of journals; including Poesy, Camas, Dislocate, The Cimarron Review and Cerise Press. He recently spent two years living in France during which time he translated the complete works of Blaise Cendrars. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Montana-Missoula, where he teaches Creative Writing and will be holding a workshop at I’m An American Poet. This is American Poetry.
Laressa Dickey is similarly multi-talented and, in addition to writing and teaching poetry, is a dancer. Her search for new ways of poetic expression has seen Dickey write in the form of the prose poem, as well as incorporating nonverbal methods of communication into the fabric and process of her work: including dance practices, painting and horticultural techniques. Laressa currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her partner – the playwright and author Ali Gharavi.
Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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