Miller has been a mentor to hundreds of poets through her years as a teacher at University of Arizona. The Boston Book Review compares Jane Miller’s “careening, associative” verse to the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. All are inventive, energetic, and risky. Miller was originally a painter. She sees the processes of painting and writing as much the same, but she found herself unable to paint and write poetry at the same time, so ...
"[ Shattered Sonnets ] breathes life into American verse . . . [an] urgent and unrepentant collection."—Rick Moody, Poetry "This convulsive book [ Shattered Sonnets ]—at times funny, at times sick at heart—refracts and defends a wondrous light."—Edward HirschOlena Kalytiak Davis's Shattered Sonnets has earned «cult classic» status and is an unremittingly electrifying collection brimming w ...
The hardback of Elegy Owed is nominated for the 2014 National Book Critic's Circle Award! Winner announced in March 2014. Bob Hicok is considered one of the most prolific poets writing today, publishing hundreds of poems in a wide variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, and The American Poetry Review Hicok has a dual appeal: He once owned his own automotive die design company, so has a real-world perspective and diction. Tod ...
poetry appears frequently in The New Yorker popular teacher at Princeton smart, approachable, generous work critics have compared him to Rilke and W.S. Merwin Georgia Review called him «one of the most exciting poets writing today.» ...
"Dean Young challenges the reader to hang on as he jigs from one poetic style to another and sets a wondrous course across a Duchampian landscape."— Chicago Tribune "In Young's work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."— The Sunday Star (Toronto)Dean Young escorts his transplanted h ...
"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane." ...
Heather McHugh is one of the country’s leading poets McHugh’s books earn national publicity, including New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” nods and reviews in major metro dailies, all the trade magazines, and academic journals previous titles have been National Book Award finalists and short-listed for the Pulitzer McHugh is very well connected within the poetry world, including eight years as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets ...
"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-dow ...
The New Yorker profiled brothers Michael and Matthew Dickman in “Couplet: A Tale of Twin Poets” (April 6, 2009) Both brothers’s poetry appear regularly in The New Yorker Natives of Portland, Oregon, the brothers logged many hours exploring Powell’s Books, where they acquired an obsession for contemporary poetry. They have a “poet family”—their mother’s step-sister is Sharon Olds, and they lived with Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar on-and-off whi ...
