Essays and interviews

See below for a selection of Max's interviews and creative and critical prose essays.

Essays

Poetry Magazine
Zoo

Berfrois
Mortal Kombat

A Few Important Emails Between Max Ritvo and Sarah Ruhl

Blunderbuss
I Saw Such Horrible Things

Queen Mob's Teahouse
“The Jave Jive:" Three Meditations on Coffee

Parnassus: Poetry in Review
“Since the Day I Was Kicked by Master Ma, I Have Not Stopped Laughing”: Buddhism and Comedy in Philip Whalen

National Poetry Month Daily
Distraction

The Huffington Post
From One White Guy To Another: an Open Letter About our Privileges

Radio Interviews

KUT News
Carrie Fountain with Sarah Ruhl on Max Ritvo

The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Poet Max Ritvo is a Partisan for the Present

WNYC: Only Human
The Prank Your Body Plays on Life

Who Are You Calling 'Inspiring'?

Podcast One: Dr. Drew Podcast
Max Ritvo - August 15 2016

Max Ritvo - July 19 2015

Sirius XM: Just Jenny
regular guest

Written Interviews

Boston Review
The Dragons Were Blue Too Soon

Slate
“I’m Glad That I Don’t Have to Figure Out the Meaning of Life”

Plume
Featured Selection: Max Ritvo

Poets & Writers
The World Beyond: A Last Interview With Max Ritvo

New Republic
Max Ritvo: “It Takes a Ton of Chutzpah to Reincarnate.”

The Rumpus
The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo

Lit Hub
Death is Actually Very Funny: A Conversation with Max Ritvo

Divedapper
Interview: Max Ritvo

The Huffington Post
On the Holiness of Plastic: Interviewing Dorothea Lasky

Best American Poetry
Eleven Questions for Eleven Poets

Columbia School of the Arts Website
Alumni Spotlight: Max Ritvo

The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Smashing Fascist Heads”: Jazra Khaleed on Political and Poetic Crisis in Greece

Nature
"Cruel fusion: What a young man’s death means for childhood cancer"

TRANSLATIONS

The New Yorker
Greek Poetry In The Shadow Of Austerity