Starrett Poetry Prize winner shares insight into hip hop
Nate Marshall, 2014 winner of UPP’s Agnes Starrett Lynch Poetry Prize for his forthcoming collection Wild Hundreds, is also among the editors of the new release The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. The book was recently highlighted in the Lambda Literary Review. The article includes comments from Marshall and his co-editors.
“I think the reality of hip hop is that women and queer people and a lot of folks who we think about being in the margins have always been at the center of the culture,” Marshall said.
Read the review/interview on the Lambda Literary Review website.
Leslie Pietrzyk writes about a grieving commuter in the Washingtonian
Our Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, Leslie Pietrzyk, whose collection This Angel on My Chest, deals with the sudden loss of a spouse, consoles a real life fellow commuter.
Jesse Lee Kercheval’s transalations of Circe Maia’s poems in Wax Wing Magazine
Jesse Lee Kercheval, translator for our forthcoming The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia, points us toward poems from the collection which have appeared in print in advance of publication. A bilingual edition, The Invisible Bridge makes a wide selection of Maia’s work available in English in the U.S. for the first time.
In the latest Los Angeles Review of Books, esteemed poet Rigoberto González praises Quan Barry’s Loose Strife as “excellent,” saying that at mid-career, she’s “reached a milestone that recognizes past accomplishments, and that generates excitement for the body of work yet to come.”
Read the review on the Los Angeles Review of Bookswebsite.
Novelist Matt Bell was invited by The University of Arizona Poetry Center to “curate” a shelf of favorite books, and his selections include two Pitt Poetry titles: Larry Levis’s The Selected Levisand Sharon Olds’s Satan Says.
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