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 […]
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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 […]
Just Landed: Books on Chicago sports, Hong Kong cinema, and Illinois outlaws
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 […]
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 […]