Talks About Nothing

1 6 Marie Howe and Christopher Potter Are words enough to talk about nothing? Poet Marie Howe and writer Christopher Potter look for answers in a dialogue about Bible stories; the challenge of filling the nothingness in one’s work; proteins as three-dimensional poems; the transparency of the physical world; the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, and Emily Dickinson; and Howe’s own writing.