Vulture
Review of Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast Poetry Unbound: “Listening to the podcast is like descending into a bubble bath.”
The New Yorker
Review of Daniel Borzutzky’s latest: Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 does more than bear witness for posterity; it speaks of, and to, our moment.
NY Times
Interview with Elizabeth Acevedo: “People read like they eat. Sometimes we want comfort, sometimes we want to crack something open.”
BK Reader
Watch: Mahogany L. Browne reads at Ruth Bader Ginsburg statue unveiling in Brooklyn, NY.
Audie Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo whose Clap When You Land, read by the author and Melania-Luisa Marte, won the 2021 Young Adult Audie Award.
Vanity Fair
United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s latest album, I Pray for my Enemies, arrives as a witness to the emotional undertow of the moment
The Times
Read this interview with Bernardine Evaristo: “I once tried to drive to Australia in a Lada. It didn’t end well.”
LA Times
Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies named finalist for for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Hudson Review
Read “The Punch Line” a new poem from Marilyn Nelson: I lay there smiling and musing, wondering / If death is the punch line, and life the joke.
Crooked
Listen to this episode of You Don’t Have to Always Be Right featuring Mahogany L. Browne.