Best American Poetry Blog Interviews Chard deNIord on "Sad Friends, Drowned poets, and Stapled Songs".

Best American Poetry Blog interviewed Chard deNiord on his new book of interviews, "Sad Friends,  Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs" (Marick Press, 2011)

Chard deNiord is the former program director and co-founder of the MFA program at New England College. The book is published by Marick Press.

This book of interviews with seven senior American poets-Jack Gilbert, Donald Hall, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Lucille Clifton, Ruth Stone, and Robert Bly- and essays on Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell’s correspondence, specifically her delicate outrage over his use of his wife’s and daughter’s letters in his 1974 book, The Dolphin, James Wright’s poem To the Muse, and Philip Levine’s poems The Simple Truth and Call it Music, presents a broad view of the bold and original epoch in contemporary American poetry following World War II. In their wise and always engaging responses and commentaries, deNiord's subjects reflect candidly on their careers and the unprecedented big tent of American poetry today.