Interviews
“We are certainly in one of those periods now, maybe the most dangerous one in my lifetime. As poets, translators, and publishers, when we bring other voices of the world into English for an audience of the United States, we help open the eyes of readers to a wider world."
– Dennis Maloney
Interview with The Madrid Review
Interview with Connie Post
“I have often found it difficult to write social, political poetry with the need to avoid the traps of cliché, sentimentality, and propaganda. I was struggling to find a way into a poem and the light bulb went off in my yoga class when the teacher spoke about the central importance of breath and the refrain 'I can't breathe' kept resonating over and over in my mind.”
"The act of translation is the deepest reading you can do into another poet's work."
– Dennis Maloney
– Dennis Maloney
Interview with Pacific Rim Review of Books
"Poetry should be your avocation rather than your vocation."
– Dennis Maloney
Ian Haight in Conversation with Dennis Maloney
Reviews
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Empty Cup - Full Stop
"Language, poetry, and the act of translation are, then, inherently communal acts because they all involve ways of knowing one's self, sharing that self, and as a result, eliminating a sense of otherness among communities."
Johannes Bennke and Ian Haight
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Listening to Tao Yuan Ming - The Rumpus
"Maloney quietly and conscientiously demonstrates how one poem may listen to another. Even as they are speaking, his poems are listening. They reach back centuries and across continents to the life and philosophy of Tao Yuan Ming."
Julie Marie Wade
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Listening to Tao Yuan Ming - The Cloudy House
"When starting a project, you need to be open to the possibilities that will emerge as you write and allow the project to develop without having a firm conclusion in mind."
Dennis Maloney
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Listening to Tao Yuan Ming - Chris Rice Cooper Blog
"I often carry parts of poems around in my head or write ideas on scraps of paper or in a notebook. I usually set a new poem aside for a month or two and then go back to it with a fresh eye and make final adjustments and changes."
Dennis Maloney
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Finding the Way Home - The Middle Way
"Good poetry contains the kind of knowledge we search for, the kind which resonates in the heart as well as in the mind."
Dennis Maloney
