Poetry PhD Student and Common Ground Coordinator, Derek Ellis in discussion with Curtis Chin about change and introspection in memoir as well as the societal need for authentic and diverse narratives in his new book Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.
Interview date: 11/13/2024 .
Interview by Derek Ellis// 3/15/2025
Fiction Editor Alycia Calvert in discussion with Tara Betts about intuitive craft, formal diversity in poetry, and her new collection Refuse to Disappear. Original Interview date: 2/24/2023 .
Interview by Alycia Calvert// 2/10/2025
Poetry Co-Editor Jordan Franklin in discussion with Drew Pisarra about his new book Fassbinder, His Movies, My Poems. They look at sensory nuances of poetic form in comparison to the visual and auditory experiences of film, where the line between the two exists, and where one might blend into the other. Original Interview date: 7/11/2024.
Interview by Jordan Franklin// 10/11/2024
Fiction co-editor Sam Corradetti talks editing, assertiveness, and cultivating joy with Aggeliki Pelekidis, author of the debut novel Unlucky Mel which follows PhD candidate Melody Hollings as she navigates the cutthroat final year of her creative writing program while stepping in as caretaker for her aging father.
Interview by Sam Corradetti // 9/1/2024
On March 20, 2024, Angie Cruz visited Binghamton University as part of the Distinguished Writer Series, hosted by the Binghamton Center for Writers. She read work from Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022), and discussed Dominican identity, motherhood, and the ways we, as humans, grapple with loss. In conjunction with that event, PhD student Joseph Heiland was able to talk with Angie about her work and process.
Interview by Joseph Heiland // 3/20/2024
On October 17, 2023, Victoria Chang visited Binghamton University as part of the Distinguished Writer Series, hosted by the Binghamton Center for Writers. She read work from Dear Memory and from her then-forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, and shared the poems’ connections to works of art and to the lives of artists. Before the reading, she sat down for a conversation about art, life, and poetry with PhD student AJ White.
Interview by AJ White // 10/17/2023
To commemorate John Gardner’s 90th birthday, Harpur Palate is thrilled to publish the following conversation between Binghamton University alumna Julene Waffle and Professor Liz Rosenberg.
Interview by Julene Waffle // July 21, 2023
Poetry Co-Editor Cole Depuy and winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize Natasha Rao discuss her poem “What It Was Like,” and the role of poetry in a luxurious present where environmental dread has begun its creep.
Interview by Cole Depuy // November 17, 2022
Poet and artist Bianca Stone sat down via Zoom to talk to Jane Alberdeston (Binghamton University Creative Writing faculty) about her work in the genres of poetry and poetry comics, her efforts in community development, and her grandmother, the late Ruth Stone. Her poetry collections, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Pleides, 2016), and most recently, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), have been critically lauded for what a reviewer marked as Stone’s ability to join the concrete and the abstract till there is “… vivid spark” (Connotations Press).
Interview by Jane Alberteson // Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Managing Editor Hannah Carr-Murphy discusses ekphrasis, the Midwest, and organizing the full-length collection with Beth McDermott upon the publication of her book Figure 1 from Pine Row Press.
Interview by Hannah Carr-Murphy // June 2, 2022
In connection with the Distinguished Writers Series at Binghamton University, EIC Sarah Sassone got the chance to interview Ada Limón. The two discuss sound, theme, and the importance of “this life [being] enough” in connection with Limón’s National Book Critics Circle award-winning collection The Carrying.
Interview by Sarah Sassone // November 11, 2021
Edgar Kunz sits down over zoom with HP poetry co-editor Cole Depuy to discuss Kunz’s collection Tap Out (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), poetry as a space for radical imaginative empathy, and much more. Kunz and Depuy also discuss the type of poems Kunz is working on now, moving forward from his debut collection.
Interview by Cole Depuy // October 18, 2021
Fiction co-editor Nic Kanaar interviews Nicklaus Rupert about his debut short story collection Bosses of Light and Sound (Willow Springs Press, 2021). The two discuss creating believable characters, absurdity, and the difficulty of beginnings in fiction.
Interview by Nic Kaanar // May 7, 2021
HP Poetry co-editor Macaulay Glynn interviews multidisciplinary artist Nick Flynn about his latest multimodal collection Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations (ZE books, 2020). In this interview, they discuss the poet as researcher, collaboration, and the understanding of the archive as a dynamic, living system.
Interview performed by Macaulay Glynn // December 17, 2020
On Thursday, November 12, 2020, the Distinguished Writers Series at Binghamton University hosted a virtual reading and Q&A by Carolyn Forché. She has graciously allowed Harpur Palate to publish a partial transcription of the Q&A, which was moderated by Binghamton English Professor Liz Rosenberg.
Transcription by Jamey McDermott
Nonfiction co-editor Jessica Femiani interviews poet Kimiko Hahn in connection to her class visit to Professor Tina Chang’s graduate poetry workshop. They discuss craft, teaching, and the life of a writer/teacher.
Interview by Jessica Femiani // October 28, 2020
Poetry co-editor Cole Depuy interviews Pulitzer prize-winning poet Jericho Brown, discussing the function of writing in the second person, the effect of the unanswered question, and the holistic preservation of the self over politics.
Interview by Cole Depuy // October 22, 2020
Poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths joins CNF co-editor Amy Suzanne Parker to discuss Griffiths’ collection Seeing the Body (W. W. Norton, 2020). This collection, a nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in Poetry, also incorporates images of the author’s own creation and largely deals with grief, both national and personal.
Interview by Amy Suzanne Parker // September 21, 2020