Charles Wright

Celisa Steele Interview Part I: Carrboro Poet Laureate

November 19, 2014

On Thursday October 30, 2014, Tate Street High Society Managing Editor, Abigail Browning met with Celisa Steele, the current Carrboro, North Carolina Poet Laureate, at a local coffee shop, The Looking Glass. Bright, articulate, and thoughtful, Celisa Steele spoke with a welcoming and focused [...]

Should Poetry Be ‘More Playful’?

June 29, 2012

Noah Berlatsky of the Atlantic claims in this article, “As verse becomes increasingly dry, it’s getting more and more irrelevant.” Agree or disagree? And..if you agree, is it, as Berlatsky says, “all the fault of the MFA program professionalization of highbrow lit” [...]

The Great Joyful Swamp

November 20, 2010

From Charles Wright’s introduction to The Best American Poetry 2008 telling us we’d better hop to: Everyone talks about the “great health” of American poetry nowadays. And it’s hard to fault that. There are very few bad poems being published, very few. On the other [...]