10. Kerrin McCadden: When Chapbook Meets Full-Length (pt. 1)

PART ONE OF TWO: Kerrin McCadden, author of KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF, makes a compelling case for the chapbook, even when many of the poems are headed into a full-length collection.

Ross & Noah sit down with poet Kerrin McCadden to talk about the intersections between her chapbook Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry) and her full-length collection American Wake (Black Sparrow Press). Keep This to Yourself is the 2018 winner of the Button Poetry Prize. American Wake is McCadden's second full-length collection. Her debut, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (New Issues Poetry & Prose), won the inaugural Vermont Book Award in 2015.

A recent National Endowment for the Arts fellowship awardee, McCadden’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and recently in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. McCadden teaches at Montpelier High School, serves as the Associate Director of the Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place, and is associate poetry editor at Persea Books. She lives with her family in Vermont. Visit McCadden's website here.

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