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Meet the Editors.Feb 20, 2016

Meet the Editors: Poetry

The Missing Slate’s poetry editors talk about time, love and everything in-between in our Meet the Editors series.

By Constance Dunn
Alone in Babel.Oct 7, 2015

Submission

“I really wanted to argue with Houellebecq, so much so that I had to scribble little notes in the margins to formulate my dissent…” Audrey Ryback on ‘Submission’, Michel Houellebecq’s latest succès de scandale.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Jun 27, 2015

Poet of the Month: Daniel Voskoboynik

“Poetry can play a crucial role in finding a language of vulnerability, in holding out a mirror to our world’s blemishes…” Continuing our Poet of the Month series, Daniel Voskoboynik talks to Audrey Ryback.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Nov 5, 2014

Poet of the Month: Jan Wagner

“I love to write most: in a simultaneous state of presence and absence… When silence fills the room and darkness lurks outside the window.” Jan Wagner, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, interviewed by Audrey Ryback.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Nov 5, 2014

Poet of the Month: Jan Wagner (German version)

Original German text of Audrey Ryback’s interview with Jan Wagner.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Apr 20, 2014

Tsunami Woman

The Missing Slate’s Audrey Ryback talks to Sonia Pressman Fuentes.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Mar 28, 2014

Poet of the Month: Rowland Bagnall

“A friend of mine told me recently that Jonathan Franzen used to blindfold himself daily, touch-type for 6 hours and then get drunk on vodka with his wife. I don’t do this.” Rowland Bagnall, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for February, talks to Audrey Ryback.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Sep 19, 2013

Poet of the Month: Ágnes Lehóczky

Audrey Ryback talks to Poet of the Month Ágnes Lehóczky about the challenges of writing in two languages, and the difficulties of defining poetry.

By Jacob Silkstone
Articles.Aug 12, 2013

Dose of Humanity: A Young Syrian Doctor’s Remedy

Audrey Ryback writes of heroism in the face of possible imminent death in war-torn Syria…

By Mahnoor Yawar
Alone in Babel.Jul 22, 2013

The (Anti-)Poet’s Home

Audrey Ryback travels to Chile in search of two of the twentieth-century’s greatest poets

By Jacob Silkstone