A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema edited by Poshek Fu (August 11, 2008) –“Baad […]
Category: poetry
Spring on the roof
Oni Buchanan, a poet whose new collection Spring will be published by the University of Illinois Press this autumn, will be reading from the rooftops in New York City on August 5. […]
Some Houses by Maura Stanton
When I was a child growing up in the Midwest—in a suburb of Peoria, Illinois to be exact—my favorite time of week was Saturday morning. That’s when my father, a salesman […]
Peter Cole guest column in the Seattle-PI
Peter Cole, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia, contributed a guest column to today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “On Thursday, […]
Poetry Foundation features Colleen McElroy
Colleen McElroy’s new poetry collection Sleeping with the Moon is featured at PoetryFoundation.org. “She will happily give the MFAs a headache with her unfashionably clear statements and heartbroken admissions and the bold […]
Book Sense recommends Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison appears in Book Sense’s April picks list for her new book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Amistad/Harper Collins). The University of Illinois […]
“Lost” on tour
Following Oprah’s reading of David Wagoner’s poem Lost, the poet updated us on the varied apperances of this popular verse. “The poem has had a very strange history in addition to David Whyte‘s […]
Out of the blue
Yesterday we received word of two positive events: The New York Post requested Karen McNally’s When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity for an April review date and […]
7.5 stars and a picked-scab reference for “Tongue & Groove”
Coldfront, an online poetry magazine, gives Stephen Cramer’s Tongue & Groove 7.5 stars. “Imagine a man in the subway who removes his shirt and starts picking a scab. Would you […]
Steve Gehrke interview
A1 Poetry Post features an interview with Steve Gehrke, author of the recent poetry collection Michelangelo’s Seizure. […]
Good Medicine by Laurie Clements Lambeth
We had just returned from a doctor’s appointment when I got the call telling me Veil and Burn was a winner of the National Poetry Series. At one moment my […]
Poetry reviews Illinois poetry
The March 2008 issue of Poetry includes a rave review (scroll to the bottom) of Sandra McPherson’s Expectation Days. “This book is a knockout. Sandra McPherson is fully aware of […]