Interview by: 2013 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on April 1, 2013. After graduating UConn in 2011, former Long River Review editor Timothy Stobierski went on to publish his first book of poetry, Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer (River Otter Press, 2012). Several poems in Chronicles of…
Day: March 6, 2025
In Defense of The Substance: My Pick for Best Picture
Written by: Emily Sharkis The 2025 Oscars were held on March 2, 2025, and for the third year in a row, I challenged myself to watch all of the Best Picture nominees…and failed. I did, however, watch four of the Best Picture nominees: Wicked, The Substance, A Complete Unknown, and…
An Interview with Bruce Cohen (2013)
Interview by: 2013 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on March 15, 2013. Bruce Cohen has written three volumes of poetry: Placebo Junkies Conspiring With the Half Asleep (2012), Swerve (2011), and Disloyal Yo-Yo (2009). He teaches creative writing at UConn. The following interview was conducted by Long…
Interview with Melissa Watterworth Batt (2012)
Interview by: 2012 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on May 3, 2012. During these past two semesters, I have worked as an intern in the archives at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, first blogging for the SideStream section of the Fresh Pickin’s blog and, more recently,…
An Interview with Kay Ryan (2012)
Interview by: Devin O’Hara Note: the following interview was originally published on April 15, 2012. On April 9 and 10, Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan visited the University of Connecticut as the 49th annual Wallace Stevens poet. Amanda Norelli wrote an introduction for Ms. Ryan on the…

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