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.”
New York Times
Review of Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise: celebration, crisis, brokenness and healing.
Washington Post
Reviews of new, stunning collections of poetry including Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise and Tina Chang’s Hybrida.