Corresponding Authors: A Postal Interview with Amy Newman
Amy Newman, based in Illinois, is the author of Dear Editor (Persea Books, 2011), a collection of epistolary poems sent by a poet, “Amy Newman”, to nameless editors, with the hope that someone, somewhere, might take an interest in her poetry collection.
Anthony Michael Morena, based in Tel Aviv, is the author of The Voyager Record: A Transmission (Rose Metal Press, 2016), a meditation on a missive sent into the furthest reaches of outer space, in the hope that someone, somewhere, might take an interest in humankind.
The two authors surrendered their fates to Israel’s notoriously terrible postal system and exchanged letters on the nature of letter writing, who we become when we put pen to paper, Anne Sexton, the saints, and more.