Follow These Weird Tweets! May 10, 2013: NYU Local lists its favorite "weird tweets" by NYU creative writing professors and wouldn't you know it: A few of our faves are Harriet regulars. Yes, "The Weirdest Tweets from NYU Creative Writing Professors" list includes tweets from poets, Eileen Myles, Sharon Olds, Dorothea Lasky and Charles Simic. Their cyber thought-bubbles range [...] by Harriet Staff

Dorothea Lasky / Thunderbird / Wave Books / 2012 April 23, 2013: Thunderbird is a fairly seamless collection of lyrics / integrated around recurring themes and values. Beginning perhaps twenty years ago / the I-poem came under attack – for being egotistic / for failing to take advantage of the objective correlative / for being self-centered / for trying to dominate the sensibility of the reader as it [...] by Alan Davies

Dorothea Lasky Talks About Thunderbird and I, Violet (!) at BOMBLOG November 29, 2012: Dorothea Lasky talks about Thunderbird at BOMBLOG! There's not much better. "The flavor of sensate mortality is thick on these pages," writes Jonathan Aprea. "...[F]lip through them and read windswept sadness and world-hurt. Read good and evil, confusion and acuity. Read also a howling authority, a life grabbed by its gnarled horns and shown [...] by Harriet Staff

At Austinist: Dorothea Lasky Talks Persona, Confessionalism, Democracy of 7-Eleven, ++ November 6, 2012: An interview with Thunderbird author Dorothea Lasky has just been published at Austinist. Lasky talks about, among other things, how 7-Eleven is "a more democratic space than a Whole Foods," and the troublesome terms and suitability of confessionalism. More: At one point in the book you mention that you’re more comfortable in a [...] by Harriet Staff

Poetry Education or Educating the Poet October 23, 2012: Over at the Rumpus, David Biespiel is being inundated. "All of a sudden my inbox is filling up with links from friends to two essays related to poetry that have almost everything and nothing in common at once, and whose implications say a lot about how the art of poetry gets re- or de- artified." And what essays is he talking about, pray tell? [...] by Harriet Staff

Dorothea Lasky on Using Poetry to Teach the True Importance of Language in Early Education Classes October 16, 2012: Check out this essay by Dorothea Lasky, "What Poetry Teaches Us About the Power of Persuasion," in The Atlantic, in which Lasky writes about the importance of teaching poetry to students early in their lives. She writes: A few years ago, I was working for a science teacher professional development program. My job was to go into [...] by Harriet Staff

At VICE: Blake Butler Cowers Before Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird October 3, 2012: Blake Butler puts Dorothea Lasky in a VICE grip and doesn't know whether to kneel or cover his ears. No, really! It's a review of Thunderbird (ahem—we hear the hardcovers are sold out)! MORE about this "WILD-ASS SHOUT-BRAIN": Her poems often feel this way: like an extremely powerful child has been taken over by a shitload of wild [...] by Harriet Staff

Take a Color Workshop with Dorothea Lasky October 2, 2012: From Brooklyn Poets: Our fall workshop with Dorothea Lasky. If you like what the fall does with color, well, you’ll really like this workshop. 5 weeks, Nov 4 to Dec 2, Sundays 2-5 PM. Classes will meet in the poet’s home in Bed-Stuy. A steal at $275. Apply by October 21! Only room for 4-8 students. Hurry up and apply! by Harriet Staff

Spenser Davis Reviews Thunderbird September 21, 2012: Over at The Rumpus, Spenser Davis reviews Dorothea Lasky's new collection Thunderbird. Here he talks about a particular favorite, and it's "biting commentary." Oh, an Frankenstein movies: Again, some of the themes in this collection were simply brilliant, and I love how Lasky keeps coming back to some of them. In a great example of [...] by Harriet Staff

Watch a Video for Dorothea Lasky’s “Why Go In Cars” September 18, 2012: Poet Zachary Pace made this video for Dorothea Lasky's poem "Why Go in Cars" from her forthcoming (and currently on sale) collection, Thunderbird. http://youtu.be/pODVfrvrOd8 by Harriet Staff