John Weir interviewed for Bay Area Reporter!
Date: April 7, 2022
If patience is a virtue, then fans of award-winning gay writer John Weir are among the most virtuous people you will ever find. Weir won a Lambda Literary Award for […]
Date: April 7, 2022
If patience is a virtue, then fans of award-winning gay writer John Weir are among the most virtuous people you will ever find. Weir won a Lambda Literary Award for […]
Date: April 4, 2022
Elizabeth Bradfield, professor of creative writing, is the author of five poetry books. When she isn’t publishing her stories or encouraging students to write their own, she can be found outside, leading whale […]
Date: March 31, 2022
Date: March 31, 2022
Kim Stafford’s archive at Lewis & Clark College isn’t about him. It’s about everyone else. In curating the collection of his life’s work — poems, essays, stories, songs, letters and […]
Date: March 29, 2022
Here’s the latest World Wide Work update on films, books, and music you may have missed.
Date: March 29, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Lemons to talk about his quartet series, Snake. Check out our first interview, where we talk about Gary’s background and book one in […]
Date: March 17, 2022
Date: March 8, 2022
Poetry Moment on WPSU is a program featuring the work of contemporary Pennsylvania poets. Host Shara McCallum is this year’s Penn State Laureate.
Date: March 3, 2022
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s poems were selected as part of the Poetry in Sound project from Navier records, a monthly contest that invites musicians worldwide to make a song inspired by […]
Date: March 1, 2022
THIS IS THE 56th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Carol Becker, professor of arts and dean […]
Date: May 14, 2009
By Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Special to The Courier-Journal, February 28, 2009Seed Across Snow, a lush collection of intelligent, elegant and very wise verse, is Louisvillian Kathleen Driskell's stunning second book. […]
Date: May 9, 2009
Bradfield's poems guide us alertly into this treacherous territory pocked with political pitfalls and theoretical quagmires. One hardly notices the perils that abound because Bradfield is such a deft naturalist, […]
Date: May 9, 2009
Bradfield depicts scenes commonplace and extraordinary alike, and her poetry touches on a variety of topics, yet despite this, there is nonetheless a common concern that unites many of this […]
Date: May 9, 2009
This fascination with naming necessarily leads to one of the book's recurring thematic questions: what do we really mean when we say nature and natural?…As the inaugural publication of Arktoi […]
Date: May 9, 2009
…the importance of the poems lies in their extraordinary awareness of so many different ways to engage the world. As the crises of the twenty-first century intensify, it is this […]
Date: May 9, 2009
Bradfield's poems are stocked full of unfamiliar words, statistically-improbable phrases, sonorous lines, shapely stanzas, endearing arguments and compelling personalities. Her recurring subjects wear much better than her recurring tropes. I […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Review by Nina MacLaughlin in The Boston Phoenix, June 21, 2008 In Safe Suicide, an assemblage of revealing, interrelated essays, DeWitt Henry ” Emerson professor, writer, and founding editor and […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Review by Chuck Leddy in The Boston Globe, April 21, 2008 A bountiful harvest of thoughts on life's journeyBy Chuck Leddy April 21, 2008 Safe Suicide: Narratives,Essays, and MeditationsBy DeWitt […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Review by John Domini in GENTLY READ LITERATURE, December 2008It's called creative non-fiction, and these days there's just no stopping it. More and more commercial publishing depends on the memoir, […]
Date: May 7, 2009
Safe Suicide reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper in AMHERST MAGAZINE, fall 2008In Safe Suicide, the Boston-based novelist, professor and editor DeWitt Henry has collected his autobiographical essays first published in […]