Keri Marinda Smith grew up in Florida where she played in punk bands and never wore socks. In 2015, she moved to NYC to get her MFA in poetry from the New School. Her first book, Dragging Anchor, came out on Hanging Loose Press in 2018. She lives in Ridgewood and works as a bartender, and can usually be found at Rockaway Beach with her chihuahua and a book.
Writers
Catching Up With Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien is an internationally produced and published playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition in playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. O’Brien’s poetry collections are the newly published Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books), Our Cancers (Acre Books), Scarsdale (Measure Press & CB Editions), New Life (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), and War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), which in the UK received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Catching Up With Sharon Mesmer
Sharon Mesmer is a Polish-American poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing. Her poetry collections are Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books, 2015), Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997, published to coincide with a month-long reading tour of Japan sponsored by American Book Jam magazine).
Catching Up With Charles North
Charles North is an American poet, essayist and teacher. Described by the poet James Schuyler as “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2008), four Fund for Poetry awards, and a Poets Foundation award. Hanging Loose Press has published six of his twelve poetry collections. His What It is Like: New and Selected Poems headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year (2011), and his most recent collection, Everything and Other Poems, was named a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book.” He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City.
Catching Up With D. Nurkse
D. Nurkse is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently A Country of Strangers (2022) from Alfred Knopf. Hanging Loose published Nurkse's first collection of poems, Shadow Wars, in 1988. He's the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy...
Catching Up With Elinor Nauen
Elinor Nauen’s books include Now That I Know Where I’m Going, Snowbound, My Marriage A to Z: A big-city romance, So Late into the Night, CARS & Other Poems, American Guys (published by Hanging Loose Press), and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on cars & the road (Faber & Faber, 1997) and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women writers on baseball (Faber & Faber, 1994). Her work has appeared in New American Writing, FICTION, Exquisite Corpse, The World, KOFF, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon, Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine, American Book Review, Café Review and other magazines and anthologies.
Catching Up With Gerald Fleming
Gerald Fleming is the author of the poetry collections The Bastard and the Bishop, One, Night of Pure Breathing (all three published by Hanging Loose Press), The Choreographer (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013), and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers, 2005). His...
Catching Up With Terence Winch
Terence Winch’s latest book, That Ship Has Sailed, was published in 2023 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of eight earlier poetry collections. A Columbia Book Award and American Book Award winner, he has...
Catching Up With Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, three of which Hanging Loose published: Airpocket, Volatile, and Earshot which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. Foreign Bodies (W. W....
Catching Up With Indran Amirthanayagam
Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam talks with Hanging Loose Press about his past year. Amirthanayagam writes, translates, and publishes poetry/essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole, which means he is usually in the middle...
Talking Weird Girls, Monsters and Metamorphosis: A Conversation with Caroline Hagood, Hanging Loose Editor and author of Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster
Caroline Hagood's new book takes on the idea of women who are "too much" and not afraid to make you think twice. Published by Spuyten Duyvil and available now. Jiwon Choi and Caroline Hagood in conversation. Music credit: Matthew Beckerman. Caroline Hagood Jiwon Choi...
The Ritual of Care: Maureen Owen talks about caregiving
Maureen Owen talks with Jiwon Choi about the challenges of caring for her mother and her forthcoming book, let the heart hold down the breakage. Jiwon Choi: I am fascinated by the ritual of care that you describe in your book, the blanket struggles, the oxygen, the...