Joshua Clover on HER BOOK:
“Éireann Lorsung’s Her book has something of the gurlesque to it: ‘The most gentle apocalypse in the world.’ But this will lead the reader, with remarkable sureness, not toward the viscera of the...
View ArticleHER BOOK reviewed in ZYZZYVA
There is an immensely tender and sensitive reading of Her book over at Zyzzyva and I am so grateful to the woman who wrote it. From the review: “Her book (Milkweed; 76 pages), the latest poetry...
View ArticlePoem featured on MPR’s ‘State of the Arts’
My poem “Bee summer” was on MPR’s State of the Arts this summer. Thanks to KV, who helped it get there, and to MC who put it there.
View ArticleThree Questions for PNCA
Marshall Astor kindly invited me to read in Portland this summer, and I also did a short interview about process. Thanks, Marshall!
View ArticleAbout keeping notebooks
Back in April, I wrote about my notebooks as part of the National Poetry Month (US) series on MetreMaids.
View ArticleSWEETBRIAR
My chapbook, Sweetbriar, is available from Dancing Girl Press. Afaa Michael Weaver writes that “Sweetbriar invites the reader to the poet’s childhood so we can share her discovery of a child’s...
View ArticleTHE CENTURY review, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2 October 2020
Very grateful to see The Century here alongside books by Heid Erdrich, Michael Torres, and Diane Glancy.
View ArticleTHE CENTURY reviewed in PLOUGHSHARES
Very grateful for this perceptive and lengthy review by Alicia Wright in Ploughshares.
View ArticleTHE CENTURY in the Boston Globe
Very grateful to see a review of The Century in the Boston Globe’s books page this weekend. Thanks to Nina MacLaughlin for reading and writing about my book.
View ArticleReading with Monica Ong and Timothy Otte, 2 December (7 Eastern)
Longfellow Books in Portland, ME, with the support of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, is hosting an online reading and conversation, moderated by poet and critic Timothy Otte. Poet and...
View ArticleConversation with Timothy Otte, THE RUMPUS
I’m late posting this here, but no less grateful for the time and energy Timothy Otte (a great reviewer and careful thinker on poetry) spent thinking about my book with me. (He has a newsletter where...
View ArticleConversation with Doireann Ní Ghríofa, 15 July, 3 US Eastern
Really, really looking forward to this conversation hosted by Books In Common NW. I loved A Ghost in the Throat, read it in one day after being given it for Christmas, taught it this spring. Register...
View ArticleReview of The Century in Cleveland Review of Books
Very grateful for this careful and thoughtful review of The Century which a friend brought to my attention this morning.
View ArticleConversation with Doireann Ní Ghríofa now online
You can watch our conversation on YouTube if you like.
View ArticleThe Century reviewed in the Portland (ME) Press-Herald
Such a thoughtful review in the Press-Herald. Thank you.
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