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Reb Livingston Reveals Her Poetry Crush
“Poets on Poets” is another new essay series, parallel to the recently launched “Selling Shorts,” only this time, as you’ve probably guessed, I’ve invited poets to talk about their favorite poets. I...
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Rebecca Lindenberg on the Magic of Craig Arnold’s Poetry
Love, An Index is the first collection of poems by Rebecca Lindenberg, and it depicts her relationship with another poet, Craig Arnold, who disappeared in 2009 while hiking on the Japanese island of...
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Renato Rosaldo: Poetry in Plain Language
photo via NYU In The Day of Shelly’s Death, the anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo writes about the death of his wife, Michelle Rosaldo, in 1981 just after they had arrived in the Philippines for...
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Diana Raab & the Power Poet Couple of Santa Barbara
Diana Raab’s latest poetry collection is Lust, including recent verse like “The Wave” and “Shivering.” In this guest essay for Beatrice, she recalls two of her friends and colleagues, and the love...
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Sara Wallace: Smoke in Streams of Light
photo: Rose Ann Franklin Sara Wallace writes poems with vivid details, immersing you in her scenes, whether it’s a walk through the narrator’s grandparents’ farm in “Take This Old Coat” or the...
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Tyler Knott Gregson: When I Heard Walt Whitman
photo via Tyler Knott Gregson Every day, Tyler Knott Gregson writes a haiku on an old typewriter, and then shares it with fans online. And there’s a lot of them: hundreds of thousands spread out...
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Jordan Zandi: Borrowing Szymborksa
photo courtesy Jordan Zandi Jordan Zandi is the winner of the 2014 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, on the strength of his debut collection, Solarium. When you read a poem like “Chamber Music,” or...
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John Koethe and the Poetic Sentence
photo: Tom Bamberger The poems in John Koethe’s The Swimmer are like personal essays, a mixture of autobiographical anecdote and layered references to literature, art, science, and philosophy. And one...
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Amelia Martens & the Year of the Snake
photo: Emily Margaret Okerson Each of the poems in Amelia Martens’s The Spoons in the Grass are There to Dig a Moat is a surreal scene, just a paragraph in length. (Well, okay, some of them are a few...
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Michael Homolka’s Room Full of Rilke
photo:Tamara Arellano Michael Homolka’s Antiquity is the recipient of the 2015 Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. (Longtime Beatrice readers may recognize the Morton Prize, as a previous winner,...
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