PBS News Hour
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discusses why her accomplishment represents a “doorway of hope” for other indigenous people.
National Book Award
Congratulations to Carolyn Forche whose memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, is long listed for the 2019 National Book Awards!
National Book Award
Congratulations to Jericho Brown whose collection of poetry, The Tradition, is long listed for the 2019 National Book Awards!
LA Rev Books
Alicia Ostriker and Erika Meitner on the intersections of poetry, feminism, and Jewish identity: “yes, women poets write about the body.”
The Guardian
Dunya Mikhail’s In Her Feminine Sign included on this list of The Best Recent Poetry.
Post-Gazette
Review of Rick Moody’s The Long Accomplishment: “frustrating and fulfilling, linear and digressive, mundane and profound.”
Independent
Claudia Rankine and Simon Armitage included on list of booksellers’ top poetry books from last 25 years.
The New Yorker
Read “The Man Who Owned Me” by Tracy K Smith: ” I carried him/Like I carried my own children.”
LA Rev Books
Read this stunning review of Tina Chang’s Hybrida: “a book of kingdoms, forests, wolves, and witches.”
CNN
Read Deborah Landau’s piece “We are all soft targets”: “A failure of imagination may prove tragic for us now.”