Interviews
“I fell in love with Helen, this demigod ill-suited to both the Sparta and Troy of Bronze Age Greece and of 1990s Tennessee.” — Poet Maria Zoccola in conversation with TLR’s Jessica Cuello
Our poetry editor Jessica Cuello interviews Maria Zoccola about her debut collection, which has received critical praise from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and many more. TLR published “helen of troy recovers at st. francis,” in Issue 23, Summer 2022. JC: Helen of Troy is the voice of the poems in Helen of Troy, 1993. She is …
“Translation is an art form in its own right” — Editor Jessica Cuello on Poetry and Translations
Our poetry editor Jessica Cuello is passionate about poetry translations, both reading and creating them, and she inspired us to start including them in TLR. We had a virtual round table discussion with her about this new (to us) submission category. (Read on our website) Why, at this moment, did you decide to add poem translations …
“My poems allow me to stay close to childhood”
