Michael talks with Hilary Plum about small presses, the recent news around Catapult and Elizabeth Koch, her first three books, her essay collection HOLE STUDIES, editing, writing about illness, pop culture as entrance into larger ideas, form as content, form as container, returning to poetry after four prose books, and more.
Hilary Plum (she/her) is the author of several books, including the forthcoming poetry collection Excisions (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), the essay collection Hole Studies (Fonograf Editions, 2022), and the novel Strawberry Fields (Fence, 2018), winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program, and she serves as associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich she edits the Open Prose Series at Rescue Press. Recent work has appeared in Astra, The Rupture, Granta, American Poetry Review, Cleveland Review of Books, College Literature, and elsewhere.
Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.
Get Hole Studies (Fonograf Editions, 2022) here.
Check out the catalog at Autofocus Books here.