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Christian Barter Q&A talks about how he became interested in poetry

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, talks about about how he became interested in poetry.

19 years ago

Christian Barter Q&A talks about the first poem he ever wrote

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, talks about about the first poem he ever wrote.

19 years ago

Christian Barter Q&A talks about his greatest obstacle in becoming a poet

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, talks about his greatest obstacle in becoming a poet.

19 years ago

Christian Barter Q&A talks about the most pleasurable and most painful aspects of writing

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, talks about the most pleasurable and most painful aspects of writing.

19 years ago

Christian Barter Q&A talks about his special writing time

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, talks about his special writing time.

19 years ago

Christian Barter Q&A with some advice for other young poets

Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer, with some advice for other young poets.

19 years ago

Author’s Prayer

If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and over, for an empty page is the white flag of their surrender. If I speak for them, I must walk on the edge of myself, I must live as a blind man who […]

19 years ago

In Praise of Laughter

Where days bend and straighten in a city that belongs to no nation but all the nations of wind, she spoke the speech of poplar trees— her ears trembling as she spoke, my Aunt Rose composed odes to barbershops, drugstores. Her soul walking on two feet, the soul or no soul, a child’s allowance, she […]

19 years ago