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The New York Times Reviews Time and the Tilting Earth
Veteran poet Miller Williams's latest collection, Time and the Tilting Earth, is reviewed in the February 22 issue of The New York Times Book Review. "In poem after poem, he mingles the low and the...
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Betty Adcock reviewed and interviewed
Betty Adcock's most recent collection of poetry, Slantwise, was recently reviewed by the online journal Cerise Press. Ms. Adcock also gave a wonderful interview in which she discusses her craft. You...
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Breach poet Cooley on “The Sound of Books”
Hear LSU Press poet Nicole Cooley read from and discuss her new collection, Breach, in this excellent interview on "The Sound of Books" (WWNO). Nicole Cooley's New Volume of Katrina-Inspired Poems,...
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Its Ghostly Workshop Searches for Truth across Time and Place
“Intellectual travelogue merges with literary tour in these intricate creations and re-creations.”—Betty Adcock, author of Intervale: New and Selected Poems “A compelling convergence of the near and...
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Kelly Cherry Examines the Domain of Language in The Life and Death of Poetry
“Unpretentious and stimulating, Kelly Cherry’s The Life and Death of Poetry, in exemplary fashion, extends the tradition of the Ars Poetica for the twenty-first-century reader: these poems instruct and...
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Daniel Hoffman (1923-2013)
With deep sadness, we must report the passing of Daniel Hoffman, an LSU Press author who was also one of America’s foremost men of letters. Primarily a poet, Dan published fourteen books of poetry,...
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Next to Last Words Showcases the Late Work of One of America’s Foremost Men...
“Next to Last Words shows Daniel Hoffman to be at the height of his long and distinguished career. He makes us see the world in a new way, compelling for his visual accuracy and consummate technique. ....
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The Glacier’s Wake Wins the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize
“Didden’s is a capacious voice, able at once to deliver both wit and wonder, canny insight and meditative mystery.”—Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected In her first...
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Matt Rasmussen’s Debut Poetry Collection, Black Aperture, Winner of the Walt...
“Black Aperture addresses, with meticulous balance, a single event from multiple directions. Autobiographical, speculative, imaginal, at times bitterly comic, often lyrically surreal, Matt Rasmussen’s...
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David Kirby Dramatizes the Artistic Mind in Latest Poetry Collection
Inspired by the carpenter’s biscuit joint—a seamless, undetectable fit between pieces of wood—David Kirby’s latest collection dramatizes the artistic mind as a hidden connection that links the mundane...
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Anna Journey Examines Personal and Imagined History in Vulgar Remedies
Poet’s Second Collection Available from LSU Press in August 2013 Anna Journey is the author If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have...
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LSU Press Author Ava Leavell Haymon Named Louisiana Poet Laureate
Ava Leavell Haymon LSU Press Poet Ava Leavell Haymon was recently selected as Louisiana’s new poet laureate. She will serve a two-year term from 2013–2015. “I’m honored and thrilled to be appointed...
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Fred Chappell’s new collection, Familiars, prompts LSU Press to reflect on poets and their feline companions Today at LSU Press, we’re celebrating the release of Fred Chappell’s newest poetry...
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Happy Release Day, Kelly Cherry!
LSU Press is delighted to announce the release of Kelly Cherry’s new book, Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer, which explores in verse the life of the Father of the Atomic Bomb. In celebration of its...
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Writing Girl after Girl after Girl: Women Poets, Permission and Risk
The poet Lucille Clifton once said that with her poetry, “I hope to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” When I wrote the poems in my new book Girl after Girl after Girl, I thought often...
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Finding Promise in Poetry
It’s rare that I write a poem that doesn’t in some way draw upon the work I have read by other poets, writers or artists, be they living or dead, famous or lesser known. Throughout the house, small...
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Tramp: On Poetry, Women, and Wanderers
When I first started writing what would become Tramp, I had no idea what it would grow into. Playing with late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century newspaper articles about women who blew into and...
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Click to view slideshow. The 2018 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference will take place from March 7-10 in Tampa, Florida. A number of our authors will be attending the conference to...
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Changing Perspective: Art’s Influence on Adam Vines’ Poetry
The poems in Out of Speech are an outgrowth of my fascination with the visual arts. Before I had ever written a poem, I sketched and painted. I was a full-time landscaper and part-time student then....
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