White Houses
Amy Bloom’s book White Houses, about Eleanor Roosevelt’s relationship with Lorena Hickok, slated for TV mini series.
USPL
Tracy K. Smith is appointed a 2nd term as US Poet Laureate to expand her outreach efforts to rural communities!
The Nation
Read Dunya Mikhail’s article “The Exodus”: Their pieces of clothing looked like white flags in a time of war, or like delayed dreams.
Washington Post
Review of Aminatta Forna’s Happiness: Each episode materializes as memories do, with sharp and fragile immediacy.
Newsweek
Interview with Amy Bloom on White Houses: “None of us, in our own lives, are the little tugboat. We are the center of the story.”
LA Times
Brenda Hillman’s latest collection Extra Hidden Life ponders how poetry can help us chronicle, engage, and grieve.
The Guardian
Review of Afterglow: This is no run-of-the-mill anthropomorphism – Myles prefers the reverse: the dog in us and in other people
Poetry Foundation
Read Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “Naming the Heartbeats” here!
SF Chronicle
Review of Amy Bloom’s White Houses: ““I loved being the brave and battered little dinghy. She loved being the lighthouse.”
Oxonian Review
Review of Jorie Graham’s Fast: a restless intelligence within the poems engages with the force of the world.