An Incomplete Guide to the Poetry Books I Currently Have on Tap (or, When and Why Networks Work) April 29, 2013: All the “best of” or “holiday gift” lists come out in December and January, when books that had our attention in the early (still chilly, here in New Jersey) days of spring have gotten buried beneath . . . let’s say autumn leaves and winter snows.  Here’s a quick list of newish poetry books currently or very recently on my mind, for [...] by Evie Shockley

Yahoo! Commissions Alternative Inaugural Poems January 21, 2013: If you haven't been able to get enough of all the inaugural poem hoopla (we certainly haven't had our fill yet!) then surf over to Yahoo! News for five other inaugural poems by the likes of James Tate, Paul Muldoon, Brenda Shaughnessy, Kevin Young, and James Franco. What's it all about? This: Surveying the short history of presidential [...] by Harriet Staff

Interview with Brenda Shaughnessy September 24, 2012: Brenda Shaughnessy took part in this interview over at the Academy of American Poets website. Her newly minted book, Our Andromeda, was published last week by Copper Canyon. Here's a snippet: Poets.org: What do you see as the role of the poet in today's culture? Shaughnessy: Not that the poet's work makes it all the way out into [...] by Harriet Staff

Mother-Poet: The New Yorker reviews Brenda Shaughnessy’s Upcoming Book July 5, 2012: New Yorker reviewer Hilton Als all but gushes over Brenda Shaughnessy’s forthcoming collection, Our Andromeda. “It is a monumental work, and makes a hash of those tired superlatives that will no doubt crop up in subsequent reviews,” writes Als. In this collection, the reviewer explains, Shaughnessy struggles with her identity as an [...] by Harriet Staff