NPR

An interview with Meghan O’Rourke where she discusses how a mystery illness cost her a decade of her health.

Ninth Letter

An interview with Major Jackson: “ultimately I believe in the transformative powers of art and poetry.”

Interview Magazine

Interview with Claudia Rankine: “[Racism is] your understanding of who you are and who I am, and my understanding of who you are and what I want.”

The New Yorker

In her memoir, Bernardine Evaristo describes how she was excluded from the halls of literary power, and how she finally broke in.

NPR

Author Bernardine Evaristo speaks with NPR about her new memoir, Manifesto, and about perseverance.

NPR

In this interview, USPL Joy Harjo reflects on her new memoir, finding her voice, and using it.

Joy Harjo

NPR

Joy Harjo speaks with All Things Considered on the inspiration behind her most recent memoir Poet Warrior.