Poems by Terese Svoboda - a recent Guggenheim fellow, author of 18 books of poetry, fiction, translation, memoir, and biography. Her most recent book of poetry is Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear 2016). 

An excerpt from Terese Svoboda's biography of radical feminist Irish-American poet Lola Ridge, ahead of Svoboda's talk and reading at the James Joyce Cultural Centre in Dublin, presented by New Dublin Press. 

'Ladies and gents you are here assembled
To hear why earth and heaven trembled
Because of the black and sinister arts
of an Irish writer in foreign parts.'

"I believe that the world moves, and I believe that the weight of the rolling planet is going to bring freedom to Ireland." - James Stephens

Eleanor Hooker is an Irish poet and writer living in North Tipperary. Her debut collection of poems, The Shadow Owner's Companion, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012. Her second collection will be published this year. 

Poet and critic Gerald Dawe on Joyce's A Portrait: "Maybe this is why it is still easier to fall for the image of ‘Joyce the artist’, rather than read the lesson according to Joyce, squinting at his country with the tolerance of one who knows how to hate it and why he cannot."

As we launch our series, Modern Portraits - reflections on James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man by 21st century writers and artists - NDP's Marty Gilroy writes about Joyce's personal, artistic rebellion in 1916. 

[chronosequence] by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, a bilingual poet writing both in Irish and in English. 

Poet and scholar Kimberly Campanello on the poetry of Susan Howe, H.D. and Etheridge Knight: "I wish to suggest that the idea of ‘finding one’s voice’ is also a placeholder for its own demise."

The third and final instalment of our epic interview with poet Ernest Hilbert: "People confuse having a well-paid MFA teaching job with being “a poet,” which is why Poet turns up on those lists of the most competitive jobs. It’s actually the least competitive, if you look at how much lackluster poetry gets published." 

Interview with Lois More Overbeck, general editor of The Letters of Samuel Beckett series from Cambridge University Press. Stefano Rosignoli focuses the conversation on the most recent collection, covering Beckett's correspondence from 1957 - 1965. 

Dr. Gillian Groszewski interviews Swedish playwright Ann Henning Jocelyn, whose latest play, Doonreagan, comes to Dublin's Samuel Beckett Theatre January 28 - 31. 

NDP's Jonathan Creasy interviews Brooklyn-based poet Quincy R. Lehr. Plus - new poems by QRL.