The Write Question team for this episode was Lauren Korn, host, co-producer, and editor and Jake Birch, co-producer and editor and Chris Moyles, sound engineer. The Government Lake and Dome of the Hidden Pavilion by James Tate (Ecco Press) ![]() In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011 by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press) The Cloud Corporationby Timothy Donnelly (Wave Poetry)įort Not by Emily Skillings (The Song Cave) ![]() “Why Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina” by Dara Barrois/Dixon ( Action, Spectacle)ĪMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibrationand A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics by CAConrad (Wave Poetry) ![]() Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina and You Good Thing by Dara Barrois/Dixon (Wave Poetry) The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctionsby Peter Brannen (Ecco Press)ĭon't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams (Crown Publishing Group) Pathetic Literature edited by Eileen Myles (Grove Atlantic) Iggy Horse by Michael Earl Craig (Wave Poetry) She was the 2005 Louis Rubin Chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She lives and works in factory hollow in Western Massachusetts. She’s been poet-in-residence at the University of Montana, University of Texas Austin, Emory University, and the University of Utah. Poems can be found in Granta, Volt, Conduit, Incessant Pipe, Biscuit Hill, blush, can we have our ball back, Itinerant, American Poetry Review, Octopus, Gulf Coast, and The Nation. The Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council have generously supported her work. With James Tate, she rescued The Lost Epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke, published by Waiting for Godot Books. Other titles include In the Still of the Night(Wave Books, 2017), You Good Thing(Wave Books, 2014), Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005), Hat on a Pond (Verse Press, 2002) and Voyages in English (Carnegie Mellon, 2001). She has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, American Poetry Review, and The Poetry Center Book Award. Here, with emotional exactitude, is a collection of poems that is unafraid to express “love humor despair loving kindness love humor empathy/humor joy sympathy love kindness courage.”ĭara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) is the author of Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina(Wave Books, 2022). Barrois/Dixon brings profound attention to the things we love-be they animals, books, skyscapes, movies, poems, or other human beings-and to the stories that shape our worlds. ![]() With the same tender honesty found in all of Dara Barrois/Dixon’s (née Dara Wier) poetry, the poems in Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina are curious about the world we inhabit and the worlds we create. This week on The Write Question, Lauren speaks with poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) about the ethics of art-making and how her latest book of poetry, Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina (Wave Poetry), both elucidates and confounds those ethics-particularly as it’s read alongside Barrois/Dixon’s essay titled almost identically, “Why Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina” ( Action, Spectacle).
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