Allison Peters – Michigan Quarterly Review

Allison Peters

Allison Peters is the Creative Coordinator/Copywriter at Mane Content, and she writes the weekly column Experiencing Northern Michigan for 9&10 News. Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, Allison earned an honors BA in English and creative writing with a minor in film from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and has been awarded scholarships to the Bear River Writers’ Conference as well as artist residencies with the Grin City Collective and Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology. Her poetry has been published in The Collagist, Dunes Review, Hobart, Birdfeast, Mixed Fruit, and elsewhere. She interviews authors for Michigan Quarterly Review and teaches writing classes at Up North Arts and Northwestern Michigan College through College for Kids and the National Writers Series. Allison is also a professional copyeditor and voiceover artist, founder/director of the indie publishing studio Green House Press, and founder/editor of the literary journal Orange Quarterly. She loves acting, architecture, making music, and living in Cadillac, Michigan.

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Deep Love, Deep Sorrow in the Same Body: An Interview with Gala Mukomolova

“I’m excited by the nature of genre, like gender, to eschew formula and boundaries. I think since the world is on fire, our words are getting hotter, more urgent, more unrepentant.”

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“I’m excited by the nature of genre, like gender, to eschew formula and boundaries. I think since the world is on fire, our words are getting hotter, more urgent, more unrepentant.”

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Little Shrines: An Interview with Lauren Clark

“Poems are personal devotional devices. They’re little shrines—places you touch again and again, in editing, arranging and rearranging the contents until you have them just right, just so beautiful or compelling that god / God can’t ignore them.”

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“Poems are personal devotional devices. They’re little shrines—places you touch again and again, in editing, arranging and rearranging the contents until you have them just right, just so beautiful or compelling that god / God can’t ignore them.”

On “Psalms for the Wreckage”: An Interview with Joshua Young

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“You don’t need an MFA to be a good writer, but you need readers who understand what you are trying to do, and won’t let you get away with not doing that.”

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“You don’t need an MFA to be a good writer, but you need readers who understand what you are trying to do, and won’t let you get away with not doing that.”

A List of Further Possibilities: An Interview with Chen Chen

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“Poems are often these very strange moans. These very impossible efforts toward the innermost pangs. Somehow, the trying to go there gives me hope. To reach down and into. To make your whole language and your whole body move that way.”

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“Poems are often these very strange moans. These very impossible efforts toward the innermost pangs. Somehow, the trying to go there gives me hope. To reach down and into. To make your whole language and your whole body move that way.”

On “Floating, Brilliant, Gone”: An Interview with Franny Choi

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“I think so much of engaging in poetry (and in all art, at least art that’s not terrible and designed to preserve structures of power and oppression) is an exercise in empathy. Maybe at its base, poetry is paying close attention and then putting intentional language to communicate to another person what you’ve found.”

On “Floating, Brilliant, Gone”: An Interview with Franny Choi Read More »

“I think so much of engaging in poetry (and in all art, at least art that’s not terrible and designed to preserve structures of power and oppression) is an exercise in empathy. Maybe at its base, poetry is paying close attention and then putting intentional language to communicate to another person what you’ve found.”

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