Pas de Deux

Thanks for stopping by to check out the last poetry Pas de Deux of the season: our second interview between poets and 10.2 contributors Kathryn Nuernberger and Shara Lessley. Below, Nuernberger asks Lessley about her poem “They Ask Me to Send,” one of a series of narrative-lyrics that explore Lessley’s time living in Jordan. Scroll …

Team Alcalá -Kirby strikes again with this rematch Pas de Deux interview in which David Kirby spars with Rosa Alcalá, administering his questionnaire regarding—appropriately—her poem “Questionnaire” (10.2). Stay tuned to read the incomparable Alcalá’s ruminations on the care-taking of an elderly parent, domestic doppelgängers, and the philosophy of the Q&A. David Kirby: I’m a sucker …

Welcome to our third installment of Pas de Deux in which Rosa Alcalá interviews fellow poet and 10.2 contributor David Kirby about his poem “Is Spot in Heaven?” Scroll down to discover the secrets behind Kirby’s characteristically staggered (and staggering) stanza patterns, to read Kirby’s thoughts on the popular-versus-high-culture debate, and to finally learn whether heaven—or …

Christa Romanosky and Jennifer Murvin are having a literary party, and you’re invited. Sit down with a glass of wine or beer or ginger ale (just drink something, even if it’s morning) and listen in on the conversation in another edition of Pas de Deux, a two-part exchange between contributors. This time, Romanosky is slinging the …

The feast continues with the second course in our feature Pas de Deux, in which Jennifer Murvin turns the tables on fellow 10.2 contributor Christa Romanosky and asks how in the heck she came up with her ironic, biting, and heartbreaking story “Assets.” In what follows, Romanosky reveals her secret recipe: one part biography, eight …

Welcome to the second part of our inaugural double-interview feature Pas de Deux, in which Melanie McCabe asks fellow poet and 10.2 contributor Claire Wahmanholm about how she conceived and executed her playful, moving, and sonically-rich near-sonnet “Glitch.” Remember that beautifully understated “fluster/ of lost door keys” at the beginning of Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”? …

Ever wonder how to know the dancer from the dance? Well, wonder no more! Welcome to our new blog feature, Pas de Deux, a two-part exchange between contributors in which: 1) a recent contributor interviews another about his or her poem, story, or essay that originally appeared in our pages; and 2) the interviewee interviews the …