Journalism — Interviews & Essays

Interviews and essays published in Chiron Review, newest first — 260 pieces across 86 issues. Click a cover or “Get this issue” to open that issue in the catalog, where you can buy it and where every name is linked to the contributor’s other appearances.

Issue #142 · Fall 2026 · Get this issue →

Lloyd Schwartz: The Chiron Interview

Interview with Lloyd Schwartz, by John Wisniewski

Book reviews

Essay by Aloysius Flyte on Laurier Tiernan, Beth Brown Preston, Gary Metras, Kirby Olson, Aaron D. Weigert, Thaddeus Rutkowski

Issue #141 · Summer 2026 · Get this issue →

Poets in America

Essay by John Macker on Stuart Z. Perkoff, Tony Scibella

Entropy, the Boltzmann Brain, and the Spectral Mandala: on Sadegh Hedayat

Essay — M. Zaman

Six book reviews

Essay by Aloysius Flyte on Wally Swist, Sara Youngblood Gregory, Linda Lerner, Shirley J. Brewer, Richard Stimac, Oyindamola Dosunmu

Issue #140 · Spring 2026 · Get this issue →

Robert Yarra

Interview with Robert Yarra, by John Wisniewski

Review of Trying to Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the World

Essay by John Brantingham on Steve Henn

Book review

Essay — Linda Lerner

Issue #139 · Winter 2025 · Get this issue →

Larry Beckett

Interview with Larry Beckett, by John Wisniewski

Review of Thin Places

Essay by Aaron Belz on Edward Nudelman

Reviews of Read This When I’m Gone and American Duende

Essay by Aloysius Flyte on Dan Grote, Jay Griswold

Issue #136 · Spring 2025 · Get this issue →

The Words Come First

Interview with Koss, by Hannah Grieco

A Conversation with Eric Michael Lally

Interview with Eric Michael Lally, by John Wisniewski

Review of In Inheritance of Drowning

Essay by Beth Brown Preston on Dorsía Smith Silva

Review of On the Other Side of Goodbye

Essay by Thaddeus Rutkowski on G Emil Reutter

Review of Maze

Essay by Linda Lerner on Jennifer Juneau

Issue #135 · Winter 2024 · Get this issue →

17 Gods and a Hammer

Essay by Wayne F. Burke on Charles Bukowski

Issue #133 · Summer 2024 · Get this issue →

Confinement as Liberation

Essay by Ali Shehzad Zaidi on Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Review of Safe Colors

Essay by John Brantingham on Thaddeus Rutkowski

Issue #132 · Spring 2024 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 7: Unmute Gaza

Interview with Unmute Gaza, by Anthony Lucero

Voice of the Forgotten

Essay by Ali Shehzad Zaidi on Ahmed Faraz

Review of Body Be Sound

Essay by Jonathan Frey on Georgia Tiffany

Issue #128/129 · Winter 2022 / Spring 2023 · Queer · Get this issue →

An Interview with Charles Henri-Ford

Interview with Charles Henri-Ford, by Felice Picano

Felice Picano: The Chiron Interview

Interview with Felice Picano, by Robert Peters

Issue #127 · Fall 2022 · Remembering Gerald Locklin · Get this issue →

Reflections of a Literary Maverick

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Gerald Haslam

Gerald Locklin Interview

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Rita Mitzner

Locklin: The Chiron Interview

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Mark Weber

Gerald Locklin: The Interview (introduction by Charles Harper Webb)

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Scot D Young

Of dying cats and literary luminaries: Remembering Gerry

Essay by Michael Hathaway on Gerald Locklin

A Tribute to Gerry Locklin

Essay by Edward Field on Gerald Locklin

untitled tribute

Essay by Ron Koertge on Gerald Locklin

Lock Man

Essay by Catfish McDaris on Gerald Locklin

Meeting a Famous Poet

Essay by Norman Olson on Gerald Locklin

Notes from a Fan

Essay by D.A. Pratt on Gerald Locklin

For Gerry

Essay by Ron Terranova on Gerald Locklin

Lookin’ at Locklin

Essay by John Yamrus on Gerald Locklin

Respects for Toad

Essay by Zack Kopp on Gerald Locklin

Gerald Locklin – a memory

Essay by Wendy Rainey on Gerald Locklin

Photographs

Essay by Linda Lerner on Gerald Locklin

Issue #126 · Summer 2022 · Echoes of Vietnam · Get this issue →

Reprinted: Thích Nhất Hạnh essay and poems

Essay — Thích Nhất Hạnh, introduced by Anthony Lucero

Looking at Gary Goude (reprinted from #53)

Interview with Gary Goude, by Oberc

Looking at Bill Shields (reprinted from #53)

Interview with Bill Shields, by Oberc

Review of A Band of Brothers (reprinted from #26)

Essay by Jerome Gold on Walter McDonald

Review (reprinted from #26)

Essay by Andrew Gettler on Steve Mason

Review of Hit Parade (reprinted from #26)

Essay by David A. Willson on Jabiya Dragonsun

Review of The Thousand-Yard Stare (reprinted from #52)

Essay by Edward J. Rielly on James Soular

Review (reprinted from #26)

Essay by Jon Forrest Glade on B.D. Trail

Issue #122 · Summer 2021 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 6: From Gaza

Interview with Malak Mattar, by Anthony Lucero

Gary Soto: Not Sitting Still

Essay by Ron McFarland on Gary Soto

Issue #120 · Winter 2020 · Get this issue →

A Conversation with klipschutz

Interview with klipschutz, by Sarah Daugherty

Review of Beat Scrapbook

Essay by Jonah Raskin on Gerald Nicosia

Review of Making Landfall

Essay by Ron McFarland on Paul Lindholdt

Issue #117 · Winter 2019 · Get this issue →

The Poem as Sacred Ground

Essay — Rachel Custer

Issue #116 · Summer 2019 · Get this issue →

The Artistic Power of Silence: On Letting Art Speak for Itself

Essay — Rachel Custer

Deaf Republic and Twitter Noise: A Call to Radical Silence

Essay by Rachel Custer on Ilya Kaminsky

Issue #115 · Spring 2019 · Get this issue →

Marc Zegans

Interview with Marc Zegans, by Kareem Tayyar

Kareem Tayyar

Interview with Kareem Tayyar, by John Brantingham

Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie

Essay — Rachel Custer

Issue #107 · Spring 2017 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 5: Where’s Sombath Samphon

Interview with Shui Meng Ng, by Anthony Lucero

Issue #105 · Fall 2016 · Get this issue →

Conversation with Alexis Rhone Fancher

Interview with Alexis Rhone Fancher, by Ellaraine Lockie

Walking with Saroyan

Essay by Brenda Najimian Magarity on William Saroyan

Issue #104 · Summer 2016 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 4: Cuba

Interview with El Sexto, by Anthony Lucero

Issue #103 · Spring 2016 · Get this issue →

Reprinted: John Trudell interview

Interview with John Trudell, by Bob Doran

Issue #102 · Winter 2015 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 3: Thích Nhất Hạnh essay and poems

Essay — Thích Nhất Hạnh, introduced by Anthony Lucero

An Interview with Doug Holder

Interview with Doug Holder, by John Wisniewski

Issue #101 · Fall 2015 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 2: Afghanistan

Interview with Lt. Col. Jason Amerine, by Anthony Lucero

Introduction to “Escape”

Essay by Ianthe Brautigan on Richard Brautigan

Issue #100 · Summer 2015 · Get this issue →

War Series, Part 1: Breaking the Silence

Interview with Avner Gvaryahu, by Anthony Lucero

An Interview with Ed Nudelman

Interview with Ed Nudelman, by John Wisniewski

Review of Out of Time, Running

Essay by Dale Cottingham on Edward Nudelman

A Letter to Son — an Impression about War

Essay — Iwona Partyka

Issue #98 · Winter 2014 · Get this issue →

John Thomas Menesini

Interview with John Thomas Menesini, by John Wisniewski

An Interview with Ron Padgett

Interview with Ron Padgett, by John Wisniewski

Issue #97 · Fall 2014 · Get this issue →

An Interview with Eckhard Gerdes

Interview with Eckhard Gerdes, by John Wisniewski

My Belated Love Letter to Bukowski: Our Chance Encounter at the Racetrack

Essay by D.D. Wood on Charles Bukowski

Issue #81 · Winter 2005 · Get this issue →

Edmund White

Essay by Edmund White

Issue #80 · Autumn 2005 · Get this issue →

Denise Duhamel

Interview with Denise Duhamel, by Karla Huston

Edward Field

Interview with Edward Field, by Karla Huston

Laurie Graziano

Interview with Laurie Graziano, by Karla Huston

Issue #79 · Summer 2005 · Get this issue →

Wanda Coleman

Interview with Wanda Coleman, by Jeff Jensen

John Henry “Jack” Hathaway

Essay by John Henry “Jack” Hathaway

Ouida Elizabeth Bryan

Essay by Ouida Elizabeth Bryan

Todd Moore

Essay by Todd Moore

Issue #78 · Spring 2005 · Get this issue →

Harry E. Northup

Interview with Harry E. Northup

Michael Hathaway

Interview with Michael Hathaway

Robert Sward

Interview with Robert Sward

Ronald Baatz

Essay by Ronald Baatz

Issue #77 · Winter 2004 · Get this issue →

Ed Ochester

Interview with Ed Ochester

Robert L. Penick

Interview with Robert L. Penick

Jack Micheline

Essay by Jack Micheline

Issue #76 · Autumn 2004 · Get this issue →

Ed Galing

Interview with Ed Galing

Henry Denander

Interview with Henry Denander

Issue #75 · Summer 2004 · Get this issue →

Sheila Heti

Interview with Sheila Heti

Steve Kowit

Interview with Steve Kowit

Alvah Bessie

Essay by Alvah Bessie

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Issue #74 · Spring 2004 · Get this issue →

Rochelle Lynn Holt

Interview with Rochelle Lynn Holt

Vivian Shipley

Interview with Vivian Shipley

Bob Kaufman

Essay by Bob Kaufman

Marge Piercy

Essay by Marge Piercy

Issue #70 · Autumn 2002 · Get this issue →

Ian Griffin

Interview with Ian Griffin

Jon Edgar Jr Webb

Interview with Jon Edgar Jr Webb

Patricia Cherin

Interview with Patricia Cherin

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Jack Kerouac

Essay by Jack Kerouac

Karl Koweski

Essay by Karl Koweski

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Essay by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Issue #69 · Summer 2002 · Get this issue →

Gypsy Lou Webb

Interview with Gypsy Lou Webb

Vivian Shipley

Interview with Vivian Shipley

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

D.H. Lawrence

Essay by D.H. Lawrence

Henry Miller

Essay by Henry Miller

Kenneth Rexroth

Essay by Kenneth Rexroth

Issue #66 · Autumn 2001 · Get this issue →

Dave Newman

Interview with Dave Newman

Antler

Essay by Antler

Issue #65 · Summer 2001 · Get this issue →

Felice Picano

Interview with Felice Picano, by Robert Peters

Issue #64 · Spring 2001 · Get this issue →

Lyn Lifshin

Interview with Lyn Lifshin, by Dancing Bear

Jay Dougherty

Essay by Jay Dougherty

ave jeanne

Essay by ave jeanne

Catherine Lynn

Essay by Catherine Lynn

Joan Jobe Smith

Essay by Joan Jobe Smith

Carl Miller Daniels

Essay by Carl Miller Daniels

Issue #62 · Summer 2000 · Get this issue →

David Meltzer

Interview with David Meltzer

Michael C. Ford

Interview with Michael C. Ford

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Roy Pomeroy

Essay by Roy Pomeroy

Issue #61 · Spring 2000 · Get this issue →

Dannie Abse

Interview with Dannie Abse, by Gary Pacernick

Lesléa Newman

Interview with Lesléa Newman, by Gary Pacernick

Anais Nin

Essay by Anais Nin

James Valvis

Essay by James Valvis

Jane Hathaway

Essay by Jane Hathaway

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Essay by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Issue #60 · Winter 1999 · Get this issue →

Denise Duhamel

Interview with Denise Duhamel, by Matt Mason

Issue #59 · Autumn 1999 · Get this issue →

Nilda Cepero

Interview with Nilda Cepero

Rick Lupert

Interview with Rick Lupert

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Interview with Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Essay by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Issue #58 · Summer 1999 · Get this issue →

Laurel Ann Bogen

Interview with Laurel Ann Bogen

Antler

Essay by Antler

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

James Broughton

Essay by James Broughton

Issue #57 · Spring 1999 · Get this issue →

Janice Eidus

Interview with Janice Eidus

Jay Marvin

Interview with Jay Marvin

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

James Broughton

Essay by James Broughton

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Sharon Olds

Essay by Sharon Olds

Tim Wells

Essay by Tim Wells

Issue #56 · Winter 1998 · Get this issue →

James Broughton

Interview with James Broughton

Michael McNeilley

Interview with Michael McNeilley

Ruth Moon Kempher

Interview with Ruth Moon Kempher

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Issue #55 · Autumn 1998 · Get this issue →

Charles Henri-Ford

Interview with Charles Henri-Ford

Erskine Caldwell

Interview with Erskine Caldwell

Paul Agostino

Interview with Paul Agostino

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Issue #54 · Summer 1998 · Get this issue →

Grant Vecera

Interview with Grant Vecera

Guy Aitchison

Interview with Guy Aitchison

Lyn Lifshin

Interview with Lyn Lifshin

Carol Muske

Essay by Carol Muske

Jack Micheline

Essay by Jack Micheline

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Vytautas Pliura

Essay by Vytautas Pliura

Issue #53 · Spring 1998 · Get this issue →

Bill Shields

Interview with Bill Shields

Jack Micheline

Interview with Jack Micheline

Jack Micheline

Essay by Jack Micheline

Issue #52 · Winter 1997 · Get this issue →

Charles Harper Webb

Interview with Charles Harper Webb

Marvin Malone

Interview with Marvin Malone

Bruce Embree

Essay by Bruce Embree

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Fred Voss

Essay by Fred Voss

Issue #51 · Summer 1997 · Get this issue →

Elisabeth Belile

Interview with Elisabeth Belile

Gregory Courson

Interview with Gregory Courson

Robert Peters

Interview with Robert Peters

Rachel Brower

Essay by Rachel Brower

Issue #48 · Autumn 1996 · Get this issue →

Gina Bergamino

Interview with Gina Bergamino

Kell Robertson

Interview with Kell Robertson

Kell Robertson

Essay by Kell Robertson

Terri L. Jewell

Essay by Terri L. Jewell

William Burroughs

Essay by William Burroughs

Issue #44/45 · Autumn/Winter 1995 · Get this issue →

Sherman Alexie

Interview with Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie

Essay by Sherman Alexie

Tony Moffeit

Essay by Tony Moffeit

Issue #43 · Summer 1995 · Get this issue →

Antler

Interview with Antler

Joan Jobe Smith

Interview with Joan Jobe Smith

Issue #42 · Spring 1995 · Get this issue →

Gerald Locklin

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Mark Weber

Tony Moffeit

Interview with Tony Moffeit, by Mark Weber

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

s banks-richardson

Essay by s banks-richardson

Issue #41 · Winter 1994 · Get this issue →

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Emile Fischer

Essay by Emile Fischer

Joe Singer

Essay by Joe Singer

Issue #40 · Autumn 1994 · Get this issue →

Albert Goldbarth

Essay by Albert Goldbarth

John Paul Deley

Essay by John Paul Deley

Ron Androla

Essay by Ron Androla

Issue #37/38 · Winter 1993 / Spring 1994 · Get this issue →

Faith A. Senior

Essay by Faith A. Senior

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Issue #35 · Summer 1993 · Get this issue →

Todd Moore

Interview with Todd Moore

Issue #34 · Spring 1993 · Get this issue →

Joseph Cowles

Interview with Joseph Cowles

Judson Crews

Interview with Judson Crews

Todd Moore

Interview with Todd Moore

Seymour Krim

Essay by Seymour Krim

Issue #29 · Winter 1991 · Get this issue →

Martin Bax

Interview with Martin Bax, by Gerald Locklin

Issue #28 · Autumn 1991 · Get this issue →

John Ashbery

Essay by John Ashbery

Marijane G. Ricketts

Essay by Marijane G. Ricketts

Issue #22 · Spring 1990 · Get this issue →

Gerald Locklin

Interview with Gerald Locklin, by Gerald Haslam

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #17 · Winter 1988–1989 · Get this issue →

Douglas Goodwin

Interview with Douglas Goodwin

W.S. Merwin

Essay by W.S. Merwin

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #6 · 1984 · Get this issue →

Matt Dennison

Essay by Matt Dennison

Issue #73 · Winter 2003 · Get this issue →

Peter Money

Interview with Peter Money, by David Oliveira

Issue #72 · Autumn 2003 · Get this issue →

Linda Rocheleau

Interview with Linda Rocheleau, by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Todd Moore

Essay by Todd Moore

Issue #71 · Summer 2003 · Get this issue →

Daniel Crocker

Interview with Daniel Crocker

Sam J. Pierstorff

Interview with Sam J. Pierstorff

Timothy Liu

Essay by Timothy Liu

Issue #68 · Spring 2002 · 20th Anniversary Issue · Get this issue →

Edward Field

Interview with Edward Field

Virginia Love Long

Interview with Virginia Love Long

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Issue #67 · Winter 2001 · Get this issue →

Charles Henri-Ford

Interview with Charles Henri-Ford

Marc Awodey

Interview with Marc Awodey

Steven McDaris

Interview with Steven McDaris

Todd Moore

Interview with Todd Moore

Issue #63 · Winter 2000 · Get this issue →

Ian Parks

Interview with Ian Parks, by Jules Smith

Jay Dougherty

Essay by Jay Dougherty

ave jeanne

Essay by ave jeanne

Catherine Lynn

Essay by Catherine Lynn

Joan Jobe Smith

Essay by Joan Jobe Smith

Issue #49 · Winter 1996 · Get this issue →

Todd Moore

Interview with Todd Moore

Vytautas Pliura

Interview with Vytautas Pliura

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Dennis Doherty

Essay by Dennis Doherty

Marvin Malone

Essay by Marvin Malone

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Essay by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

Issue #46/47 · Spring/Summer 1996 · Get this issue →

Carl Miller Daniels

Essay by Carl Miller Daniels

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

Issue #39 · Summer 1994 · Get this issue →

Gerald Locklin

Interview with Gerald Locklin

Issue #36 · Autumn 1993 · Get this issue →

Karla Debes

Essay by Karla Debes

Issue #30 · Spring 1992 · Get this issue →

Terri Crawford

Interview with Terri Crawford, by Margaret Shauers

Issue #27 · Summer 1991 · Get this issue →

Janice Eidus

Interview with Janice Eidus

Lyn Lifshin

Interview with Lyn Lifshin

Gil Scott-Heron

Essay by Gil Scott-Heron

Keith A. Dodson

Essay by Keith A. Dodson

Marijane G. Ricketts

Essay by Marijane G. Ricketts

Issue #25 · Winter 1990 · Get this issue →

Lorri Jackson

Essay by Lorri Jackson

Issue #24 · Autumn 1990 · Get this issue →

Ezra Pound

Essay by Ezra Pound

John Ashbery

Essay by John Ashbery

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #16 · Summer 1988 · Get this issue →

Todd Moore

Essay by Todd Moore

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #15 · Spring 1988 · Get this issue →

Merritt Clifton

Interview with Merritt Clifton

Richard Wilbur

Essay by Richard Wilbur

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #13 · Autumn 1987 · Get this issue →

Alan Catlin

Essay by Alan Catlin

Rane Arroyo

Essay by Rane Arroyo

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #12 · Summer 1987 · Get this issue →

Alan Catlin

Essay by Alan Catlin

Charles Bukowski

Essay by Charles Bukowski

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #10 · Winter 1986 · Get this issue →

Sibilia Hershey

Essay by Sibilia Hershey

Tennessee Williams

Essay by Tennessee Williams

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #9 · Fall 1986 · Get this issue →

Stacey Sollfrey

Essay by Stacey Sollfrey

The Kindred Spirit — Issue #1 · February 19, 1982 · Get this issue →

Connie Edwards

Essay by Connie Edwards

Issue #20 · Autumn 1989 · Get this issue →

Charles Harper Webb

Interview with Charles Harper Webb, by Gerald Locklin