Bowman's interviews with authors, artists, spiritualists, and others.
Interview with my poetry professor at Eastern Oregon University, David Axelrod.
Axelrod has taught English and creative writing at EOU since 1988 and has won the Spokane Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award. He and his wife Jodi Varon are co-directors of the new, low residency master of fine arts in creative writing program at EOU. His most recent book of poetry is Folly in which he attempts to capture the beauty and terror of the finite human experience. |
Interview with up and coming local La Grande author, Heather Aquistapace. Self-published writer of the self-published biblical retelling of the passion, The Day the Devil Smiled, Acquistapace is currently working on her next books, a medieval trilogy Hearts of Glass.
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Interview with poet, professor, and animal savior Robert Wrigley. Six-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, awarded the Kingsley Tufts Award, The San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, Barrow Street, The New Yorker, and twice in Best American Poetry.
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Interview with Jennifer Boyden, nature poet and author of The Declarable Future. Boyden won the Brittingham Prize for her first poetry collection, The Mouths of Grazing Things. She has also been awarded the PEN Northwest Writers Residency Award and the Washington Artists’ Trust. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The Adirondack Review, The Beloit Poetry Review, basalt, and Ploughshares.
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