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Slowly/Suddenly is presented as a diptych in the Table of Contents, perhaps mirroring Blevins’s commitments to other forms of art, but her poems’ progression from Part I to Part II is not a linear narrative, not a Before & After.
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If I didn’t already write poems, Lisa Dordal’s Water Lessons would make me want to write them.
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A review of BOOMERANG/BUMERÁN, a bilingual poetry collection from Achy Obejas available now from Beacon Press.
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Consider: My coming out story has been told, but coming out is constantly changing and shifting and needs retelling, and each telling has value for a particular audience.
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Julie Iromuanya discusses her debut novel, MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR.
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Combine multiple ingredients in a single stanza-bowl.
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Stacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.
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The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.
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Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.
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Poet Oliver de la Paz discusses art-making, hybrid forms, and his work.
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Joy Ladin discusses the new edition of THE BOOK OF ANNA.
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In other words: Larusso does some remarkably heavy lifting in this book.
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Laurel Nakanishi discusses her debut poetry collection, ASHORE.
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Julia Koets discusses her forthcoming poetry collection, PINE.
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Becka Mara McKay discusses her new poetry collection, THE LITTLE BOOK OF NO CONSOLATION.
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Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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Clifford Thompson discusses his work and art-making.
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Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
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Dawn Davies discusses her debut memoir, MOTHERS OF SPARTA.
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Narratives, reflections—“bright particulars,” every one.
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Rebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
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Poet Matthew Olzmann discusses his work with Julie Marie Wade.
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There are no line breaks here because there are no breaks here.
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See how visceral? Before I opened this book, I felt I was already inside it.
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Looking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
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Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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Your book is full of glorious limbos.
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