The Guardian calls Klam “a deft hand at juxtaposition” and praises his ability to “evoke a sense of absurdity, but without resort to exaggeration.”

Mask calls Pico’s newest book-length poem – about topics ranging from Janet Jackson to right-wing politicians – “his most formally and thematically impressive work yet.”

Chee talks about how writing characters for fiction and nonfiction differs, and what inspires him to write about difficult aspects of his life.

"There is a sense in this volume that our better angels will need to become rowdier. They will need to know how to handle themselves in a brawl," writes Dwight Garner. He goes on to call the collection "scorching." 

A new poem by Brown explores a father-son bond through both men’s relationship to a daughter: “We stand together on our block, me and my son,/ Neighbors saying our face is the same, but I know/ He’s better than me.”

Vollman talks about drones, drinking with pro-nuclear power plant engineers, and what gives him hope for the future.

The Poet Laureate, recently elected to a second term, discusses bringing poetry to “rural areas where most writers are unlikely to visit” and how poetry can provoke honest conversation.

William T. Vollman doesn't own a cellphone, once submitted a 3,800-page long manuscript, and sleeps with Sacramento's homeless community under the stars. Sactown Magazine profiles the writer and calls his new work about climate change "a discursive masterpiece.”

The Whiting Foundation regrets the passing of exceptional writer Joan Chase, Whiting 1987, "an archaeologist of our recent past and present, reading our traces back to us, showing us to ourselves freshly discovered and understood." (Russell Banks)

In the Times, fellow poet Craig Morgan Teicher remarks “few poets write like Li-Young Lee these days, facing the biggest and broadest questions head-on,” praising Lee’s “enormous sensuality.”