Win Bassett

About

Win Bassett’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Poetry Foundation, and Guernica. He lives in Nashville, where he teaches and coaches at a boys’ school.

Articles

SINGING FROM THE DEEP WOODS

An interview with Ansel Elkins. The Alabama landscape is so completely saturated in my soul that it’s hard to gain perspective of just how much it’s in these poems. Because the land is so rooted in...

By Win Bassett

STORY MUST SUCCEED

A conversation with Barry Moser . My relationship with my brother has haunted me all my life. When I see or read stories of brotherhood, the experience takes me into a state of reverie—a place...

By Win Bassett

THE SOUL OF THINGS GOES

A conversation with the poet Christian Wiman, whose latest collection, Once in the West —his first since leaving Poetry magazine, where he was editor for ten years—is a finalist for the 2014...

By Win Bassett