Elizabeth
Cantwell is the guest. Her new poetry collection,
All the Emergency-Type Structures, is available from
Inlandia Institute.
Cantwell lives in Claremont, CA, where she teaches Humanities at
The Webb Schools. She has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D.
in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern
California. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals,
including DIAGRAM, The Cincinnati Review, The Los Angeles
Review, Hobart, and The Missouri Review.
Her first book of poems, Nights I Let The Tiger Get
You (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), was a finalist for the
2012 Hudson Prize; she is also the author of a chapbook,
Premonitions (Grey Book Press, 2014).
In today's monologue, I respond to some listener mail.