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Brian Tierney

… Brian Tierney Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float , which was selected by Randall Mann as the winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry … Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float , which was selected by Randall Mann as …

Jason Schneiderman

… Jason Schneiderman Jason Schneiderman’s fifth collection of poems, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire, is forthcoming in fall 2024. He is the editor of the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers and … numerous journals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in …

Beth Piatote

… Perce scholar, playwright, poet, and associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Beadworkers , which was longlisted for the PEN /Bingham … professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The …

Jennifer Willoughby

… Jennifer Willoughby Jennifer Willoughby is the recipient of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry for her debut … Jennifer Willoughby is the recipient of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry for her debut …

Podcast

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Poetry

Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind

— 05/19/2022

… Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … Today’s guest Ada Limón discusses her latest collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, whose poems ask and explore what … director of Travel + Leisure. During this time, her first book of poetry, Lucky Wreck—which was also the name of her …

Authors

Many Maxes: Performance as Legacy and an Invitation for You

Milkweed Staff

… an Invitation for You Authors Essay by Elizabeth Metzger The night we met in Dorothea Lasky’s workshop at Columbia, Max Ritvo and I shared a taxi across the park where we were both living. I had recognized Max’s … I remember having trouble reconciling my impressions of him as an ebullient, whimsical life force breaking into …

Max Ritvo

Leila Wilson

… Leila Wilson Leila Wilson is the author of The Hundred Grasses . Her poems have appeared in Poetry , A … Leila Wilson is the author of The Hundred Grasses . Her poems have appeared in Poetry …

Authors / What Matters Most

On K Iver’s Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco—an elegy, an ode, an opening

… elegy, an ode, an opening Authors / What Matters Most “In the beginning, yes, a garden. As lush as you’re imagining.” … tender and heart-wrenching debut; what follows is a coming of age story of creation and demise, a love story upended by suicide. The collection’s fleeting first images of doting parents (a …

LGBTQ

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Fiction

Scott Sparling : Wire to Wire

— 06/30/2011

… debut novel, Wire to Wire , from Tin House Books. A pick of the week by Publisher’s Weekly , they call Wire to Wire … and railroads with an expert sense of timing and plot. The world he has created is both overwhelming and … novel, Wire to Wire , from Tin House Books. A pick of the week by Publisher’s Weekly , they call Wire to Wire …

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Fiction / SF/F

David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks

— 10/01/2014

… David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, … with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience . . . In his sixth novel, he’s brought together … the visionary one as Mitchell does.”— The New York Times Book Review Read more about David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks …