Keith Ekiss is the Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University for 2007 to 2009. He is the recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Petrified Forest National Park. His poems and [...]

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Enrique Chagoya is a professor of Art at Stanford University. His work ranges many media, and is currently in the collections of the country’s most major museums. The exhibition “Borderlandia” which surveys his work of the past twenty five years will be visiting the Berkeley Art Museum from February 13 – May 18, [...]

“The aim is to find a form of speech that touches the common denominator. Find poems that speak deeply and then animate them clearly for the common reader. I’m trying to hammer every bit of pretense out of my writing, make it sharp and intense.”
LELAND QUARTERLY: Okay, to start: in your article for the American [...]