Katharine Coles is interviewed for KUER
Date: March 28, 2013
Katharine Coles chats with Doug Fabrizio from KUER radio about living in Antarctica and her new book The Earth Is Not Flat. To listen to the full interview, click
News & Reviews
News:
Eloise Klein Healy chats with Wendy C. Ortiz from The Rumpus
Date: March 23, 2013
Wendy C. Ortiz from The Rumpus asks Eloise Klein Healy about her writing process, Arktoi Books, and her plans as the poet laureate of Los Angeles.- To read the full […]
Jessy Randall interviews herself for The Nervous Breakdown
Date: March 21, 2013
Jessy Randall talks about her favorite literary magazines, the books that changed her life, and how it feels to have a new book come out in a self interview for […]
KPFA features Andrew Lam
Date: March 20, 2013
Andrew Lam chats with Dennis Bernstein from San Francisco's KPFA about Birds of Paradise Lost. To listen to the interview, click
Eloise Klein Healy is featured on KCRW
Date: March 14, 2013
Eloise Klein Healy reads selections from A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, and talks with KCRW's Michael Silverblatt about "what it means to be a poet of […]
KSER features a three part interview with Gary Lemons
Date: March 13, 2013
KSER Seattle's Democracy Now radio station hosts a three part interview with Gary Lemons, featuring readings from his latest book of poetry, Snake. To listen to the interview, click
The Nebraska Girls Lit Hour interviews Eloise Klein Healy
Date: March 13, 2013
The Nebraska Girls Lit Hour features an interview with Eloise Klein Healy in which she discusses being the Los Angeles poet laureate and her latest book A Wild Surmise: New […]
Andrew Lam chats with Hana Baba from KALW
Date: March 12, 2013
KALW radio's Hana Baba talks with Andrew Lam about the Vietnamese American experience in San Francisco and his book Birds of Paradise Lost.- To listen to the interview, click
Justin Bigos from 32Poems chats with Sebastian Matthews
Date: March 5, 2013
A weekly prose feature on 32Poems finds Sebastian Matthews discussing "mid-life songs" and the connection between dreams and writing. To read the full interview, click
Camille T. Dungy interviewed for Literary Magazine Mosaic
Date: March 5, 2013
Camille Dungy talks to Mosiac about the presence of her upbringing and jazz in her poetry. To see what else inspires her, please click
Reviews:
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.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Time Out London, April 24, 2008
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Michael Swagner reviews Earthquake I.D.
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]