Taxi Driving, Poetry Book Prizes, and First Person in the Digital Age

Poet Sean Singer discusses how and why he turned his experience driving a taxi into a book of poems, plus thoughts on his publishing journey

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing poet Sean Singer about the development of his most recent book, Today in the Taxi.

Sean Singer is the author of Discography (Yale University Press, 2002), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Honey & …