My Next Heart: In Conversation with Buffalo Spree

In late February, Buffalo Spree invited Justin Karcher, Noah Falck, and me to discuss our yearlong process of producing My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry ( Blazevox, 2017), an anthology that captures many of the most prominent and exciting young voices making noise in the city's poetry scene today — what Spree called a "younger generation of poets writing about how Buffalo has left its stamp on them — and vice versa."Noah encapsulated the project, and our experience working together, beautifully during the interview:

Because we’ve got such different poetics, and Justin also has a theater background, there are so many different microcommunities that we were able to bring under this one project. This project is an opportunity to build bridges within the Buffalo literary community. It’s also a wonderful way to highlight a great number of energetic and creative young people writing in this city. I think this project acts as a conduit to future conversations about the work happening here.

Read the full interview online:http://www.buffalospree.com/Blogs/Be-There/April-2018/An-anthology-of-Buffalo-poets/Buy My Next Heart:http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/new-releases/my-next-heart-new-buffalo-poetry-eds-noah-falck-and-justin-karcher-505/