Essays & Interviews – Alfred Nicol

My conversation with Gayle Heney about translating Julien Vocance’s One Hundred Visions of War, written in the trenches of France in 1916, was recorded at the HC Media Studio in Haverhill on January 23, 2023. Gayle has been producing her award-winning program “Write Now” for over ten years. Previous guests include Andre Dubus, Rhina P. Espaillat, Paul Harding, and Meg Kearney.

Emma Andrews Library Authors Series

In this video, recorded February 17, 2022, the delightful short-story writer and novelist Áine Greaney invites me to tell my “writer’s origin story” and speak a little about how I write my poems. Sometimes the best way to answer one of her thoughtful questions is to read a poem.

Alfred Nicol Interviews A. M. Juster

A poet with a background very unlike that of most contemporary poets, Juster talks about auspicious and inauspicious trends in contemporary poetry and his own approach to the craft of writing and translating verse. This interview appeared in Better Than Starbucks, July 2020

Write Now Television Program: Alfred Nicol

Gayle Heney talks with me about Animal Psalms on this program recorded in May, 2016.

Talking About Robert Frost

This talk was presented at The Frost Farm in Derry, NH, July 24, 2011

Alfred Nicol Interviewed by Amanda Mooers

This interview first appeared in the Cervena Barva Press Newsletter, May, 2009

Alfred Nicol Interviewed by Christine Yurick, editor of Think Journal

Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer Television Program: Alfred Nicol

I chat with Doug Holder and read several poems from Animal Psalms on this program recorded Aug. 10, 2016.

Alfred Nicol Interviewed by Doug Holder

This is an edited transcript of Doug Holder’s program, “Poet to Poet, Writer to Writer,” recorded in March, 2007.