Station to Station, Poet to Poet! For the Plume 9 anthology, Danny Lawless, editor of Plume, enlisted forty-nine guest editors, who offered a poem of their own, then selected, introduced and presented a poem from another poet. With this series, we bring you these pairings for a multi-session Spring celebration of poetry. Join our editors at Plume for the second in this five-part series (followed by April 10, May 16 & June). The series is moderated by Plume editors Nancy Mitchell & Leeya Mehta.
Session 2
Moderated by Nancy Mitchell
Featuring
Alberto Rios & Irena Praitis
Dorianne Laux & Ariel Francisco Henriquez
Alberto Ríos’s latest collection of poems is Not Go Away Is My Name (Copper Canyon Press). A National Book Award finalist, he is Ari- zona’s inaugural poet laureate and a recent chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Irena Praitis is the author of six books, most recently Rods and Koans (Red Mountain Press, 2018). Her awards include a Fulbright Fellow- ship, a Lithuania translation grant, and the Red Mountain Press Poetry Prize. Having taught creative writing for more than 20 years, she’s currently a professor of creative writing and literature at California State University, Fullerton, and lives in Fullerton with her son, Ishaan.
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, W.W. Norton.
Ariel Francisco Henriquez is the Author of A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020) and All My Heroes Are Broke (C&R Press, 2017). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami. He lives in Brooklyn.
Moderators for this series
Nancy Mitchell, Associate Editor of Plume Poetry, is the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut and The Out-of-Body Shop and, with Danny Lawless, co-edited Plume Interviews I. A Pushcart Prize recipient, she is the Poet Laureate of Salisbury, Maryland and hosts the Poets on the Plaza Reading Series, currently on Zoom.
Leeya Mehta is Associate Editor at Large, Plume Poetry. She is a prize-winning poet & fiction writer. She is the author of A Story of the World Before the Fence and The Towers of Silence. She writes column on the reading and writing life: The Company We Keep. Discover her latest work here: leeyamehta.com
