Anne Coray's newest title A Measure's Hush, published by Boreal an imprint of Red Hen, was given a shining review in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:

"But really great poets take ordinary things and make them poetic . . . with words that lift the mundane, the normal, the frightening and the ugly to those heights at which we can view them as imponderables. It's different, and very difficult. But not for Anne Coray."

If you don't have access to a Fairbanks newspaper, check out the article online through the link here.

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Congratulations to Camille Dungy, whose Suck on the Marrow has won the Northern California Book Award! Against some pretty tough competition, might we add. Full list of nominees here.

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William Trowbridge's Spring 2011 poetry collection Ship of Fool has a featured poem of the day on Verse Daily.

To check out the website and see the poem, "Foolproof", click on the link here.

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Write On Online has a great new interview with Veronica Golos talking about her poetry, including her newest collection Vocabulary of Silence. She talks about her career as a writer and offers advice as well as inspirations for her poetry.

"In terms of influences, I think they are the 'poets of conscience' 'witness poets' 'poets of resistance.' Mahmoud Darwish, for example, especially for Vocabulary of Silence."

To see the full interview, click on the link here.

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The "High Plains Reader" has a great new interview with Red Hen author and Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason. He talks about his inspirations and gives a bit of advice, as well as hopes for his own body of work.

"I feel like my soul is bursting with voices, and I just want to let them out as gracefully as I can. I also know that the real life is never the life a stranger will find in my poems or stories. That’s okay. I want that stranger to find some eloquence in my work, perhaps even some delight. If I’m really lucky, perhaps some readers will find passages they cannot forget."

For the remainder of the interview, click on the link here.

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Chapter 16 (a forum of Tennessee writers, readers, and passerby) posted a fantastic interview with Gaylord Brewer regarding his 8th collection of poems Give Over, Graymalkin. Gaylord discusses his residences abroad and his inspirations for his new collection.

"Ive been lucky to travel a lot and have a lot of residencies, and it so happens that the majority of poems in this book were indeed written in India, Spain, and France, thanks to the enduring patience of a number of kind and odd folks. Lord, how I suffer. Wonderful experiences and inspirations, but also those attendant moments of dislocation, darkness, exhaustion bought and paid for."

To see the rest of the interview, click on the link here.

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Summer Brenner was on West Coast Live! on February 19th with host Sedge Thomson. Check out the link to the website here.

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Read it at this link: here.

Check out this great new interview with Janice Eidus for her new book The Last Jewish Virgin:

Fiction Writers Review interview

As well as a guest blog:

Madam Mayo

And be on the lookout for future interviews at Planetgreen.com and Monstrous.com!

PBS NEWSHOUR ART BEAT'S Weekly Poem: "She Is Awakened by a Hair" by Kim Dower. To view click here

You can listen to them on the internet! Link is here.

Rob Roberge conducts an interesting and hilarious self-interview over at The Nervous Breakdown. Check it out here.