Brian Blanchfield interviewed on Between the Covers
On the literary podcast, Blanchfield discusses why he describes his collection Proxies as “braver” than he is and the concept of being “radically candid.”
News and Reviews
"A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Nothing to the Bird” by Chris Offutt
In The Oxford American, Offutt tells a tale of luck and shares his recipe for roast wild duck.
Prodigal interviews Dana Levin
Levin divulges which poet she is secretly addressing with her latest collection and discusses the intrigue of the word “doom."
Kent Haruf receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Haruf family accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book, on the author’s behalf.
Literary Hub interviews Tyehimba Jess
Jess discusses his first mentor and the risks of voyeurism in poetic work.
“Let’s Talk About Skin”
On The Paris Review, Daniels and fellow writer Mike Nagel deconstruct Didier Anzieu’s theory of the skin as “psychic envelope.”
This Blog Will Change Your Life interviews Alan Heathcock
On the literary blog’s podcast, Heathcock talks about Saturday Night Fever, Oprah, and the film production of his story “Smoke.”
The Mitchell S. Jackson Scholarship for Writers of Color
Local Portland law firm NW Injury Law Center honors Mitchell S. Jackson with a $1,500 scholarship for an incoming college freshman student of color who wishes to pursue a degree in writing.
“From the Peninsula” by Ishion Hutchinson
On Poets.org, Hutchinson’s narrator muses over the “window’s tiger slates” and “nitrate stars” he sees from a distance.
The Blueshift Journal interviews Sherwin Bitsui
In online publication The Blueshift Journal, Bitsui describes his writing process as an act of capturing daily moments of inspiration, and each poem he writes as "sunlight one minute, a shadow on a wall the next.”