Three Promising New Voices at the Identity Crossroads
Three new poetry collections mark auspicious beginnings for three poets: Derrick Austin, Michael Prior, and Phillip B. Williams....
Three new poetry collections mark auspicious beginnings for three poets: Derrick Austin, Michael Prior, and Phillip B. Williams....
An introduction to the scope of Juan Felipe Herrera's oeuvre...
Rigoberto Gonzalez on the fourth books of three mid-career poets: Ada Limon, Kyle Dargan, and Quan Barry....
If a Mexican restaurant can channel the rich yet double-edged nature of Mexican/Chicano culture, then why not a Mexican icon?...
The incubator for great African American poets: Cave Canem...
Tim Z Hernandez, Alex Espinoza, Mario Alberto Zambrano — the next generation of Chicano writers confronts, once again, the question of Mexico....
THE POETRY CONTEST CONTINUES TO BE one of the few opportunities for early-career poets to publish their first books. This avenue doesn’t come without serious challenges to young writers, like the suspicion that such contests are money-making schemes, or, even ...
THE AUTHOR OF 13 BOOKS of prose and poetry, including a translation (with Mark Statman) of Federico García Lorca’s Poet in New York (2007), Pablo Medina has slowly nurtured an unassuming but distinguished career in letters. He identifies proudly ...
Each new episode more outlandish than the one before....
Hagedorn's lean, quick chapters and impressionistic scenes have the effect of sound bytes, and perfectly complement the tone of her world....