Featured Poets

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...