Melville House Books

Stephen Dunn is about to publish his first book since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Different Hours in 2001. In an interview with Elissa Wald for Poets & Writers magazine, Dunn talks about his writing habits, what makes a good poetry teacher, and how winning the Pulitzer impacted his life: “It was very sweet, really. And it tends to precede you wherever you go. The other side, of course, is that I likely have more enemies now.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.