Features and Interviews


Photograph by Kennen White for Temenos at Central Michigan University, October 2016.

“Q&A: Sandra Beasley, Writer-in-Residence,” in conversation with Matt Lee for Hood College: September 2023.

“Interview: Sandra Beasley,” in conversation with Rachna Singh for The Wise Owl: September 2023.

“Q&A with Sandra Beasley,” in conversation with Brittany LaPointe for UA Press Blog: May 2023.

“National Poetry Month 2023 with Sandra Beasley,”  for The UncommonWealth: April 2023.

“We Talked About Poetry with American Poet Sandra Beasley,” in conversation with Handan Tunç for Helezon: September 2022.

On the Margin,” in conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller for WPFW: April 14, 2022. [Audio]

“Interview with Sandra Beasley,” in conversation with Nikki Ummel and Michelle Nicholson for Bayou magazine: November 2021.

“Sandra Beasley & Chris Stuck,” Fall for the Book Podcast by Watershed Lit: September 2021. [Audio]

“The Poet and the Poem,” in conversation with Grace Cavalieri for Library of Congress: July 2021.

“Death by Chocolate” by Rebecca Foust for Women’s Voices for Change: July 4, 2021.

“Bearing the Unbearable: A Conversation with Sandra Beasley” with Nikki Ummel for The Adroit Journal: June 29, 2021.

“Sandra Beasley on Exploring White Privilege, Disability, and History in Her Poetry Collection ‘Made to Explode’,” with Ellis Elliott for the Southern Review of Books: June 14, 2021.

“12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sandra Beasley,” with Rob Mclennan’s blog: April 10, 2021.

“Faculty Flashback: Sandra Beasley,” with Daniel Roussel for 24 Pearl Street: April 2021.

“Poetry Today: Sandra Beasley and David Woo,” with Ruben Quesada for Kenyon Review Online: April 6, 2021.

“P&P Live! Sandra Beasley & Teri Ellen Cross Davis,” hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore: April 4, 2021. [Video]

“McNally Jackson Presents: Kim Addonizio and Sandra Beasley,” hosted by Maris Kreizman: March 18, 2021. [Video]

“Friends Old and New: A Poetry Session,” hosted by Beth Ann Fennelly for the Oxford Conference for the Book: March 11, 2021. [Video]

“Dinnerview: Sandra Beasley,” with Danielle Susi for Entropy: March 3, 2021.

“TBR: Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley,” for Leslie Pietrzyk’s Work-in-Progress blog: February 8, 2021.

“Sandra Beasley: My Writing Day,” for Rob McLennan’s “my (small press) writing day” blog: January 10, 2021.

“ENCORES: ‘Vinegar & Char’ Poetry Reading (March 2019),” for the Folger Shakespeare Library: November 27, 2020 [Video]

“Poets in Pajamas 97: Sandra Beasley,” for the Poets in Pajamas Reading Series: September 20, 2020. [Video]

Episode #479: “The Piano Speaks,” with Tracy K. Smith for The Slowdown: September 24, 2020. [Audio] [Transcript]

“Poetry Fridays with Sandra Beasley,” with Jason Crane for A Brief Chat #147: June 2020. [Audio]

“Faculty Spotlight with Sandra Beasley,” with Daniel Roussel for 24 Pearl Street: September 2019.

“Touring the FDR Memorial with Sandra Beasley,” with Jillian Weise for Tipsy Tullivan’s Tips for Writers series: August 19, 2019. [Video]

“Interview with Sandra Beasley,” with Anita Malhotra for Artsmania: June 5, 2019.

“Sylvia Plath: The Iconic Sad Girl,” with Tori Marchiony for Articulate: December 19, 2018. [Video] [Transcript]

“Count the Waves,” with Darrell Laurant for Snowflakes in a Blizzard: December 4, 2018.

“#TurnItUP: Q&A with Sandra Beasley, Editor of Vinegar and Char,” with Caitlin Sims for the UGA Press blog: November 14, 2018.

“Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance,” a GRAVY podcast: November 2018. [Audio]

“Local Author Interview: Sandra Beasley” with Emily Moses for 826DC: May 2018.

“Roundtable Discussion on Poetics and Disability” with Meg Day, Constance Merritt, Khadijah Queen, and Jillian Weise for Poetry International Online: May 2018.

Poetry Rx: Pleasure as a Means,” by Sarah Kay for The Paris Review blog: May 10, 2018.

“Write to Survive: Episode 15,” with Daniel Arndt for the Write to Survive Podcast: March 3, 2018. [Audio]

‘Writing Now, Reading Now’ series features poet Sandra Beasley, by John Darr for Wichita State University’s  The Sunflower: February 14, 2018.

Interview with Simge Çerkezoğlu: November 2017 [Video]

“The Writing Life with Laurie Frankel,” for HoCoPoLitSo: November 2017. [Video]

“Conversation with Karl Ove Knausgaard,” for Politics & Press: September 15, 2017. [Video]

“Bullies use a small but powerful weapon to torment allergic kids: Peanuts,” by Suzanne Allard Levingston for Washington Post: May 28, 2017.

“What’s the Deal with Writing Residencies?” by Elisa Gabbert for Electric Lit: March 2017

“Episode 6: Poetry” with Neal Pollack for Audible’s “Extra Credit” podcast series: February 2017.

“Interview with Sandra Beasley, Part 1: The Personal on the Page,” by Zachary Riddle and Regan Schaeffer for Temenos: November 2016.

“Interview with Sandra Beasley, Part 2: Becoming the Jukebox,” by Zachary Riddle and Regan Schaeffer for Temenos: November 2016.

“Interview with Sandra Beasley, Part 3: Echoes and the Poetic line,” by Zachary Riddle and Regan Schaeffer for Temenos: November 2016.

“Sandra Beasley Interviews Marie Howe,” for HoCoPoLitSo’s “The Writing Life”: October 2016.

“An Interview with Sandra Beasley,” by Lenea Grace and Brookes Moody for The Mackinac: August 2016.

“Writing on the Wall: Author Sandra Beasley’s Lines are Worthy of Scribbling Down,” by Corbie Hill for Creative Loafing Charlotte: June 1, 2016.

“The City and the Writer: In Washington, D.C., with Sandra Beasley,” by Nathalie Handal for Words Without Borders: February 24, 2016.

“Form, Desire, Closure & the ‘Love Poem,’” by Sarah Marcus for Gazing Grain Press. February 2016.

“An Interview with Sandra Beasley, MFA Graduate and Writer,” for American University’s Graduate Program Blogs, January 2016.

“Count the Waves: An Interview with Sandra Beasley,” by Morgan Davis for Wraparound South: January 2016.

“Book Notes: Sandra Beasley / Count the Waves,” for David Gutowski’s Largehearted Boy: September 15, 2015.

“Interview with Sandra Beasley” with Andrew Tonkovich for Bibliocracy/KPFK in Los Angeles, CA: September 2015.

SBeasley in Oxford

Portrait by Lauren Wood for Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, August 2015

“Beasley Finds Home, Poetry in Oxford,” by Emma Crawford for Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: August 27, 2015.

“What It’s Like Dining Out With Extreme Allergies and Dietary Restrictions,” by Jessica Sidman for Washington City Paper: July 29, 2015.

“A Conversation with Writer and Poet Sandra Beasley,” by Abriana Jetté for Stay Thirsty Magazine: Summer 2015.

“Favorite Poem Project: Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” for Tate Street: June 2015.

“Writers’ Corner: Sandra Beasley,” National Endowment for the Arts: June 2015.

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Portrait by Greg Powers for DC Modern Luxury, December 2014

“Arts and Power” feature profile, by Sallie Lewis, for DC Modern Luxury: December 2014.

“Sandra Beasley: Poetry in Motion,” by Richelle Putnam, for Southern Writers: June 2013. [PDF]

Southern Writers on SBeasley

“Life Stories: Sandra Beasley” with Ron Hogan for Beatrice.com: May 2012.

“Writing on the Wall: Sandra Beasley,” by Deveron Timberlake, for Virginia Living: March/April 2012.

SB in Virginia Living

“Focus: Sandra Beasley” with David Inge for WILL AM 580 in Urbana, IL: March 2012.

“Interview: Sandra Beasley,” by Andrew Keating for COBALT: February 2012.

“Profile of a DC Poet: Sandra Beasley,” by Joshua Gray, for Examiner.com: December 2011.

“MFA Creative Writing Alumna Transitions from Poetry to Prose,” by Abbey Becker, for American University’s College of Arts & Sciences: September 2011.

“Wordy Birds: Sandra Beasley” with Liz Humes for WRIR 97.3 in Richmond, VA: September 2011.

“Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley,” for “Poets in Place” on Southern Spaces: September 2011.

“The Diane Rehm Show: Sandra Beasley” with Diane Rehm for WAMU 88.5/NPR: August 4, 2011.

“Book Talk: Sandra Beasley” with Stephen Usery for FM89.3 WYPL in Memphis, TN: July 2011.

“Sandra Beasley says allergies can bring out insensitivity in others,” by Zosia Bielski, for The Globe and Mail: July 2011.

“Interview with Sandra Beasley” with Andrew Tonkovich for Bibliocracy/KPFK in Los Angeles, CA: July 2010.

“Well Versed: Sandra Beasley,” by Gretchen Cook, for Washingtonian: March 2010.

SBeasley Credo

“Credo: Sandra Beasley,” by Leah Fabel, for DC Examiner: November 2008. [PDF]

“The Poet and the Poem” with Grace Cavalieri, for the Library of Congress: September 2008.

“Meet Your Neighbor: Sandra Beasley,” by Andrew Lightman, for DC North: November 2007. [PDF]