Bianca Stone talking with the acclaimed Serbian American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review, about what life and in Covid, marital squabbles of crows, the dullness of growing up between his grandfather’s farm in rural Serbia, and the excitement of Belgrade; how nature and city works in his poems, and the wandering through the world and recording it. We discuss his process, love of the short line; the mix of autobiography and make believe in poetry; the importance of both in talking about our experience; religion—an atheist father from generations of priests; a love of churches and choirs in Rome; read some listener questions; and of course read poems.
Charles Simic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, is the author of, most recently, “Come Closer and Listen.”
