Landau is a prominent figure in poetry and well-connected within the academic world – she is the Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.She has close connections with New York-based media contacts (Oprah.com, New York Times)Her last collection was reviewed in nearly all the major trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist ...
Jeffrey Brown is an acclaimed PBS journalist and news anchor with a recognizable name, and has garnered media coverage through interviews with recognized artists and poets.Over the course of a year, 90% of all U.S. television households, which are comprised of 217 million people, watch PBS.Specifically, the NewsHour, the program that features Brown, is broadcast by more than 300 PBS stations, reaching 98% of the nation’s television households, a ...
Current (and inaugural) Poet Laureate of Arizona Host of «Books & Co.,» a highly-regarded television show featured on a PBS-affiliate station in Arizona Recently elected (2014) as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets ...
"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."—The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine's thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhoo ...
• Siken is a huge hit on the literary blogopshere and Tumblr.• Much-anticipated second book, almost ten years after his widely-acclaimed Yale Younger first-book award winner, Crush• Siken is loved and admired by the gay community• Siken has a devoted following through his work at the literary magazine spork ...
"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself."—The New York Times Book Review"Hicok's poems are like boomerangs; they jut out in wild, associative directions, yet find their way back to the root of the matter, often in sincere and heartbreaking ways."—Publishers WeeklyIn Sex & Love &, Bob Hicok attempts the impossible ...
Perillo's previous books of poems have earned: 100 Notable Books of 2012, The New York Times Book Review. It was one of only 2 poetry titles to make the list. 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associations Award for Poetry 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Full-page reviews in New York Times Book Review and The Nation Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009 Winner of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress Macarthur “Genius” Fe ...
"To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern and repetition."—Mark Jarman, American Poe ...
Belieu is one of the poets that Copper Canyon has been invested in since the beginning of her career Fourth Belieu book published by Copper Canyon Belieu’s debut volume was selected the Washington Post Book World as one of the top 5 poetry books of the year Belieu’s last book was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Her work has appeared in many major publications including New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly Belieu has taught h ...
