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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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
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
Date: February 27, 2013
Radio host Michael Krasny from KQED talks with Andrew Lam about Birds of Paradise Lost. To listen to the full interview, click
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.' […]
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 […]
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 […]
