Prose for Poets

The library is open--to prose the queens find indispensable for poets!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

You can find John Hollander's Rhyme's Reason here.

Check out an excerpt in the NYT from Michael Schmidt Lives of the Poets. 

Here's an NPR review of Olivia Laing's Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. For more about Agnes Martin by Olivia Laing, check out this interview. Maggie Nelson engaged in this conversation with Laing about Laing's book Everybody. 

Check out this reading and conversation between Adam Moss, the author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, and two of his subjects: Marie Howe and Michael Cunningham. 

Purchase Rebecca Brown's The Gifts of the Body, which Publisher's Weekly called "beautifully controlled, immensely affecting." It is 176 pages.

You can get Brown's What Keeps Me Here (stories) here.

Read this review of Annie Ernaux's The Use of Photography, which includes some excerpts from the book.

Read James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son."

For more about Kevin Killian's Selected Amazon Reviews, click here.

Here's an NPR "Fresh Air" interview with Toni Morrison about writing Beloved. 

Watch Wayne Koestenbaum's "Why I Make Mini-Movies"