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…
Month: March 2025
LRR Interviews the 2012 Design Team (2012)
Interview by: 2012 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on April 9, 2012. Come and show your support for our talented artists at the senior art showcase Friday, April 27, 2012! This year’s team includes Rebecca Hawley, Dana Haddad, Daryl Wu, and Taylor Diglio. LRR: Favorite medium? Rebecca…
Interview with Diane Smith, Joseph Michael Owens, and Annam Manthiram, editors of “Grey Sparrow” (2011)
Interview by: Alyssa Palazzo Note: the following interview was originally published on April 4, 2011. 1. Universities and presses back several magazines, but this does not appear to be the case with Grey Sparrow. Where do you receive your funding? Diane Smith: I personally fund Grey Sparrow from a modest savings…
Interview with Alyssa Palazzo (2011)
Interview by: Lynnette Repellot Note: the following interview was originally published on April 4, 2011. Palazzo is a creative non-fiction panelist for the Long River Review. Q: You write poetry, creative non-fiction, and fiction. What appeals to you about writing in the poetic form? In the prose form? A lot…
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Nature’s Intelligence: Lessons from the Dung Beetle and Beyond
Written by: Kiara Korten It is as though I am constantly finding out some new, amazing facts about the complexities and intelligence of the natural world around me. For instance, legumes have the remarkable ability to fix nitrogen, ants and aphids share a mutualistic relationship, fungi are more closely related…
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I Co-Authored an Essay with AI – Here’s How it Went
Written by: Sky Cummings Imagine you’re the CEO of a small company and you just hired a new assistant. They’re certainly hard working – they get you coffee, organize your files, and draft emails all without being asked. However, they get your Starbucks order wrong, insisting you said you wanted…
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How Getting into Anime and Manga Helped Me Develop as a Writer
Written by: Sofia Tas-Castro Around the time I started watching anime and reading manga, I was in middle school and if you were a kid growing up in the early 2000s/2010s, then you know admitting you liked anime or manga was like a death sentence for your social life. Why…