tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55756882011-04-21T19:14:47.490-04:00BANJO: Poets TalkingTRANSCRIPTIONS OF CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN POETS9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575688.post-1075227114929399632004-01-27T13:07:00.000-05:002004-01-27T20:24:25.920-05:00Interview With Poet GIL OTTGIL OTT is a poet and publisher of Singing Horse, a literary press, which has produced over twenty-five titles by emerging poets and writers in the past 27 years. The journal Paper Air, which the Press published from 1976 through 1990, was the recipient of an Editors' Fellowship from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses in 1985. He has thirteen books of poetry and prose, including The 9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575688.post-1075226535581756972004-01-27T12:55:00.000-05:002004-01-28T11:41:40.403-05:00CA: Something I've always wanted to ask you Gil-- Gil: --shoot! CA: Your magazine PAPER AIR, what was the inspiration for the magazine's name? Gil: That's very simple. I think I was inspired by the American Poetry Review, which is easy to say in that for most of the time before, I had lived on the West coast where American Poetry Review didn't have much of a presence. But on the East 9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575688.post-1071696798368969782003-12-17T16:29:00.000-05:002003-12-29T16:52:01.043-05:00BANJO: Poets Talking issue #3 ©2003 by Carol Mirakove & Kaia Sand To contact the editor: CAConrad13@AOL.com ------------- Carol Mirakove is the author of Occupied (Kelsey Street Press, 2004), and two chapbooks, temporary tattoos (BabySelf Press, 2002) and WALL (ixnay, 1999). She is a founding member of the subpress collective. Carol has lived and participated in poetry communities in 9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575688.post-1058902014704632382003-07-22T15:26:00.000-04:002003-07-22T15:26:54.770-04:00BANJO: Poets Talking  #2 © copyright 2002 text by Molly Russakoff & Jim Cory © copyright 2002 cover art by Candace Kaucher (printed magazine format only) Available from the address below for $1.08 an issue, or ask your local independent bookstore to stock it.  This is clearly not about making money, donations of any kind are much appreciated. BANJO: Poets Talking CAConrad, editor Mooncalf 9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575688.post-1058898899335841892003-07-22T14:34:00.000-04:002003-07-22T14:34:59.460-04:00MR:   (laughs)  Yeah!  My academic path was pretty funny because I started off with Stephen Dunn, who was my first workshop teacher.  He’d hover over you and tell you what makes a good poem and what makes a bad poem.  And he would take your bad poem and show you how to make it into a good poem, or he’d say “OH! don’t try that other thing until you’re 45!”  I have in my notes from that time, when 9for9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09780874987439591222noreply@blogger.com