On Being
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ poem “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” featured on the Poetry Unbound podcast. Listen here.
CLMP
Congratulations to Douglas Kearney and Jenny Xie who are finalists for the 2023 Firecracker Award in nonfiction and poetry. Peruse other authors here.
Poetry Foundation
Laura Glenum on Deborah Landau’s Skeletons: “Landau mobilizes the female libido as a site of resistance to her own mortality.”
The Millions
Camille Dungy discusses Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden: “gardening offers me a space where I see patience pay off.”
Vulture
How the poet Jorie Graham — living with cancer, reeling from her mother’s death — wrote the best book of her long career.
NPR
Best-selling fiction writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars.
Washington Post
In Chain-Gang All-Stars, prison fights have corporate sponsors – read this review of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming novel.
McSweeney’s
A short conversation featuring Deborah Landau: “Deborah Landau is a poet of the urban body, the urbane.”
Esquire
Excerpt from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s forthcoming Chain Gang All-Stars: “She noticed her own steadiness… Strange. She’d counted herself wretched for so long.”
BOMB Mag
Nuar Alsadir interviewed by Cathy Park Hong: “Racism is a form of perversion.”