Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois and author of the new book of poems Sufficiency of the Actual, was featured in the January 24, 2009, edition of the Chicago […]
Category: poetry
Jim Barnes appointed Poet Laureate of Oklahoma
Jim Barnes, author of the recent book of poems Visiting Picasso, was appointed Poet Laureate of Oklahoma by Governor Brad Henry. From the January 15, 2009, press release: The Oklahoma Humanities […]
Follow the links home
A January 8 post on Bookslut points to VQR‘s top 10 poetry books of 2008, which led me to a comment below that refers to this ZYZZYVASPEAKS post, which mentions our own […]
Origami Poetry
It’s great when I learn something about one of our recent books from a blog via a Google alert. From littlegyroscopes: Class: The origami pictures were pretty Poet: They are poems […]
Mark Doty wins National Book Award
Last night Mark Doty won the National Book Award for his Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems. Doty has a long history with the University of Illinois Press. In […]
Time Out New York reviews Oni Buchanan’s “Spring”
The October 16-22, 2008, issue of Time Out New York includes an enthusiastic review of Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring. “Buchanan writes poems that are deeply sensitive, precisely […]
David Wagoner featured on The Writer’s Almanac
“A Woman Feeding Gulls,” a poem from David Wagoner’s book Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems, was featured on the October 5, 2008, edition of Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. David […]
Rigoberto on Oni
Writing for Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, Rigoberto González includes Oni Buchanan’s Spring in his roundup of recent poetry books published with an […]
Publishers Weekly reviews “Spring”
Oni Buchanan’s new book of poems, Spring, receives praise in the September 15, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly. “In this adventurous mix of taut lyrics, dramatic monologues and free-ranging typographical experiments, Buchanan, who is […]
National Book Festival invites Michael Harper
Frost Medal recipient Michael Harper has been invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the National Book Festival in Washington D.C., on September 27, 2008. His […]
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, […]
What UIP poet was “Obama’s bitter muse?”
Mike Chasar posted an interesting piece (originally published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen) on his Poetry and Popular Culture blog regarding Barack Obama’s relationship with poet Frank Marshall Davis. “Of the potential […]