May 3, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Cradle Song, C&R Press, 2009. Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at Emory University, Oxford University, and The University of Oregon, where she received
April 11, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Breakfast with Thom Gunn, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Randall Mann is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. He is also the author of Complaint in the Garden,
April 6, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
The Heart’s Traffic, Arktoi Books/ Red Hen Press, 2009. Ching-In Chen is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Fellow. She has been a community organizer in the Asian
March 30, 2009
By Rigoberto Gonzalez
The Date Fruit Elegies, Bilingual Press, 2009. John Olivares Espinoza’s first book is The Date Fruit Elegies, which inaugurated Bilingual Press’s new poetry series Canto Cosas in 2008. Espinoza has
March 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is the newest installment in the National Book
March 30, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
The following essay by Emily Warn on Anne Winters’s “The Key to the City,” a 1986 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry, is part of the
March 11, 2009
By Lizzie Skurnick
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Lizzie Skurnick discusses Elizabeth Strout’s
March 11, 2009
By Oscar Villalon
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Oscar Villalon discusses Dexter Filkins’s
March 10, 2009
By Eric Banks
Each day leading up to the March 12 announcement of the 2008 NBCC awards, we highlight one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Eric Banks discusses Patrick French’s
February 20, 2009
By Jane Ciabattari
PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, is the publication of PEN American Center, winner of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award for lifetime achievement. PEN America