New York Times
Review of Jorie Graham’s [To] The Last [Be] Human: An eco-conscious poet whose real subject is consciousness itself.
Literary Matters
On writing, teaching, and defeating the “shitbird” of self-doubt in this conversation with Philip Schultz.
Griffin Poetry Prize
Nikola Madzirov and Natasha Trethewey among three named as judges for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.
The Center for Fiction
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s Big Girl included on The Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize Shortlist.
American Poets Prizes
Marilyn Nelson, Jericho Brown, and Mai Der Vang among winners of the 2022 American Poets Prizes.
National Book Awards
Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense and Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom among titles included on the National Book Awards’ longlists.
The Yale Review
Five questions with Jenny Xie on memory, migration, and poetry: “the poems [try] to thin the membrane between the living and the dead.”
Poetry Question
Review of Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex: “The Wet Hex is, at its core, a fractured narrative of becoming.”
NEA
Joy Harjo’s Living Nations, Living Words has been chosen for NEA’s Read Across America for November 2022.
New York Times
Read Beth Ann Fennelly’s essay, “I Love My Students, but I Won’t Use a Gun to Protect Them” here.