Writing About War
NPR explores the literature of war with Brian Turner and others who were involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iseman Professor
Claudia Rankine named the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale.
Becoming Jericho
Read Jericho Brown‘s personal journey: how he endured a violent childhood, got a new name—and a Guggenheim.
PBS Newshour
Peter Balakian explains to Newshour’s Jeffrey Brown how poetry helped him cope as he discovered the trauma of his history.
Armenian Award
Peter Balakian is awarded Armenia’s 2015 Presidential award for significant contribution to the process of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Open Source Radio
Christopher Lydon talks to Eileen Myles about the democratic virtue of individualism: in gender and sexuality, politics and aesthetics.
Lambda Literary
Eileen Myles will receive the Lambda Literary Arts Pioneer Award on June 6th.
NYT Book Review
NYT Book Review applauds Young‘s Blue Laws, saying “The formal economy of Young’s best work attunes us to the grammar of living and sorrow alike.”
Lust and Wonder
“It’s an odd thing, watching a memoirist grow up on the page,” writes NPR on Augusten Burroughs‘ newest book.
NPR
NPR interviews Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Peter Balakian.