I know Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for her fiction, but I’m all about her essays and her poems. I’m particularly obsessed with her womanist essays from the 1970’s. She is rad for so many reasons that I can’t begin to mention here, if you’re curious about the amazing life she has led go to [...]
Category Archives: Poetry
Nox by Anne Carson
May 5, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Anne Carson’s new book Nox, about her brother who died in 2000, is more like an object when you first look at it- it is done in an accordion style printing that unravels out of a box. I can’t lie, normally if something looks like it has a gimmick to me I tend to think [...]
Rebecca Keith
April 18, 2010 – 9:35 pm
Rebecca Keith’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared most recently in Best New Poets, 2009, The Laurel Review, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She was a semi-finalist for the 2010 “Discovery”/Boston Review poetry contest and has received honors from the Atlantic Monthly and Bomb magazine. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College [...]
Literary Death Match
April 12, 2010 – 10:19 am
Opium’s Literary Death Match (billed as a blend of Def Poetry Jam, American Idol and Double Dare) comes to NYC this week. It’s a mix of emerging and famous authors who perform a piece of writing in under seven minutes before an audience and a panel of judges. This Wednesday, Dossier contributor Emma Straub performs [...]
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
April 2, 2010 – 10:07 am
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review Online, Drunken Boat, Verse Daily, Salt Hill, Hayden’s Ferry, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and an editor for DIAGRAM and poemmemoirstory.
Sharon Olds Reading
March 3, 2010 – 10:14 am
Sharon Olds reads with the Dickman twins this Thursday. Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry including The Dead & the Living, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book is One Secret Thing. Matthew Dickman is the author of All American Poem, which won the 2008 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize [...]
