Online Video Series: Anna Zarra Aldrich with “Spring Cleaning” LRR, March 18, 2025 Note: the following blogpost was originally published on April 25, 2018. Thank you to WHUS for letting us use their space, and of course to Anna for reading! Filming: Elizabeth Sankey Editing: Daniela Doncel Interviewer: Amanda McCarthy Spring Cleaning The cherry tree bursts open pink the scarred, twisted trunk gives way… Continue Reading
Online Video Series: Christine Byrne with “After Angela” LRR, March 18, 2025 Note: the following blogpost was originally published on April 24, 2018 Thank you to WHUS for letting us use their space, and of course to Christine for reading! Filming: Elizabeth Sankey Editing: Daniela Doncel Interviewer: Amanda McCarthy Poem: After Angela Let’s be literal, a moment, talk about how no one disturbed… Continue Reading
Online Video Series: Theresa Persico with “The Nature of A River is to Run LRR, March 18, 2025 Note: the following blogpost was originally published on April 23, 2018 Thank you to WHUS for letting us use their space, and of course to Theresa for reading! Filming: Elizabeth Sankey Editing: Daniela Doncel Interviewer: Amanda McCarthy Poem: The Nature of A River is to Run It’s not that I don’t… Continue Reading
Online Video Series: Veronica Schorr with “Killer” LRR, March 18, 2025 Note: the following post was originally published on April 17, 2018 Thank you to WHUS for letting us use their space, and of course to Veronica for reading! Filming: Elizabeth Sankey Editing: Daniela Doncel Interviewer: Amanda McCarthy Poem: Killer You’re all smoke and jazz deep kiss and dark hair whiskey-burned bright… Continue Reading
On Reading More Slowly, Child’s Play, and Understanding Languages: An Interview with Susan Stewart (2015) LRR, March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 Interview by: Nikki Barnhart Note: the following interview was originally published on February 7, 2016. Susan Stewart – American poet, Princeton professor, Genius Award recipient – visited UConn as our 2015 Wallace Stevens poet on April 1st. I had the opportunity to ask her a few questions on her work and… Continue Reading
Journal Feature: The Blueshift (2015) LRR, March 6, 2025 Interview by: 2015 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on April 28, 2015. I had the pleasure of speaking with Tyler Tsay, the editor-in-chief, of the profound new literary journal The Blueshift Journal. This journal features young, relatively undiscovered writers and artists, hoping that great art will provide an… Continue Reading
An Interview with Asinine Poetry Editor Shay Tasaday (2015) LRR, March 6, 2025 Interview by: 2015 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally published on April 23, 2015. Over the past few weeks, my fellow editors and I have been working on a journal project. We selected two literary journals, one of mine being Asinine Poetry, did some research and presented on them…. Continue Reading
An Interview with Rattle Magazine Editor Timothy Green (2015) LRR, March 6, 2025 Interview by: 2015 LRR Staff Note: the following interview was originally posted on April 21, 2015. About a week ago, I had the pleasure to interview Timothy Green, an editor for Rattle. For those who don’t know, Rattle is a literary magazine based out of Los Angeles and founded in… Continue Reading
An Interview with Timothy Stobierski (2013) LRR, March 6, 2025 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… Continue Reading
Interview with Melissa Watterworth Batt (2012) LRR, March 6, 2025 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,… Continue Reading