News:

Late Night Library interviews John Van Kirk

Date: August 16, 2013

"The Rookie Report" from Late Night Library features a microinterview with John Van Kirk about his new novel Song for Chance. To read the full interview, click

Antarctic Sun interviews Katharine Coles

Date: August 9, 2013

Peter Rejcek from the Antarctic Sun chats with Katharine Coles about her writing process, homesickness, and how the experience of living in Antarctica has changed the way that she writes […]

Tess Taylor interviewed for The Common

Date: August 5, 2013

Diana Babineau from The Common chats with Tess Taylor about her research process and the ancestry that she discusses in her new collection The Forage House. To read the full […]

AROHO chats with Jessica Piazza

Date: August 1, 2013

AROHO talks with Jessica Piazza about the challenges facing a creative woman today, and about the women who have influenced her own creativity. To read the full interview, click

Jessica Piazza featured on TNBBC

Date: July 19, 2013

Jessica Piazza guest blogs on TNBBC's "Books and Booze" column where she pairs her poetry with some inspired cocktail concoctions. Read the full article

The Chicago Tribune interviews Mary Evelyn Greene

Date: July 17, 2013

Bonnie Miller Rubin from the Chicago Tribune chats with Mary Evelyn Greene about the difficulties of raising a child with Fetal Alcohol Sydrome. To read the interview, click

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Reviews:

Library Journal Issue 5/Arts and Humanities

Date: May 2, 2009

"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]

Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran

Date: April 22, 2009

Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]

The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship

Date: April 19, 2009

Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]

One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review

Date: April 18, 2009

http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]

Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register

Date: April 16, 2009

"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]

Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram

Date: April 16, 2009

"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]

Ely Shipley, Quarterly West

Date: April 16, 2009

"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]

Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report

Date: April 16, 2009

"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]

Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review

Date: April 16, 2009

"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]

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