Interview: Alice Fulton

Alice Fulton is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including her first story collection, The Nightingales of Troy (2008). Her most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. Her collection Felt was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001. Her other books include Sensual Math, Powers Of Congress, and Palladium. She has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and others, and she's been included both in Best American Poetry and Best American Short Stories. She is presently the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University.

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Interview: Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997), Cascadia (2001), and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), all from Wesleyan University Press, and three chapbooks: Coffee, 3 A.M. (Penumbra Press, 1982), Autumn Sojourn (Em Press, 1995), and The Firecage (a+bend press, 2000). She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry for Shambhala Publications, and, with Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand Permisson: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (2003). She teaches poetry at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California.

Hillman read from her work on November 6, 2008, in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place the following day.

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