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Living Everywhere: On Adam Zagajewski’s “True Life”
Kathleen Rooney reviews Adam Zagajewski’s “True Life.”...
Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. The author of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (2017) and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (2020), her latest poetry collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, was released by Texas Review Press in fall of 2022. Her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union in fall of 2023.
Articles
Inspired, Polyvocal, Joyful: On Warren Ellis’s “Nina Simone’s Gum”
Kathleen Rooney explores Warren Ellis’s “Nina Simone’s Gum.”...
Alice Duer Miller’s Evergreen Question in “Are Women People?”
Kathleen Rooney considers “Are Women People?” by Alice Duer Miller....
No Firm Fortress, No Retreat: Reading, and Mourning, “Moby-Dick” on the Cusp of Climate Catastrophe
Reading Melville’s “Moby-Dick” on the author’s 200th birthday, Kathleen Rooney mourns all that climate catastrophe will take from us....
“Why Do You Feel Comfortable”: On Morgan Parker’s “Magical Negro”
Kathleen Rooney considers “Magical Negro” by Morgan Parker....
Parenting in the Age of Fear: An Interview with Kim Brooks
Kathleen Rooney interviews Kim Brooks about her new book on parenting in the age of fear and the anxieties that attend modern motherhood and fatherhood....
Grand Finale: On “The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence”
Kathleen Rooney reviews John T. Irwin’s “The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence.”...
Working in a Castle Turns You Into a Romantic: An Interview with Victor Lodato
Kathleen Rooney talks to Victor Lodato about his new novel, "Edgar and Lucy."...
All the Stream That’s Roaring By
Fanny Howe continues to unsettle and compel in her new collection "The Needle's Eye."...
Unmapped Realms: Sun Yung Shin’s “Unbearable Splendor”
Kathleen Rooney on “Unbearable Splendor” by Sun Yung Shin....
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