three VERSeFest interviews: Alice Burdick, Manahil Bandukwala + Armand Garnet Ruffo,

I've been working a trio of interviews with poets as part of this weekend's VERSeFest "Fall into VERSeFest" mini-festival (that starts TONIGHT), all of which I've been posting recently over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (there was also a sequence of interviews for our spring festival, if you recall: Chris Turnbull, Klara du Plessis, Laila Malik, Jason Christie, Sandra Ridley, Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi + AJ Dolman). The three new interviews posted include: Alice Burdick (she has a new title with Anvil Press, and reads tonight at RedBird: have you tickets yet? she's also doing an in-person poetry workshop on Saturday!), Manahil Bandukwala (who also reads tonight, and has a new title with Brick Books) and Armand Garnet Ruffo (who has a new award-winning title with Wolsak and Wynn, and reads on Saturday). I actually interviewed Ruffo prior, ten years ago for Jacket2: do you recall? Why not read and compare? Did I ask him the same questions? Did he provide the same answers?