The queens play poetry matchmakers and nine months later, boom, there's a poetry baby!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Robyn Schiff's most recent book is Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024).

Read more about Karyna McGlynn's book I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl

Check out Randall Mann's latest book, a new and selected, from Copper Canyon.

Do yourself a favor and buy Laura Newbern's book A Night in the Country (also available on the awful conglomerate) and check out Newbern's website.

Watch this tribute to Eavan Boland.

You can find many poems of Richard Siken's on his website.

Watch this half-hour interview with Mark Strand (from when he was Poet Laureate).

The gals talk foundational poems--and they might just surprise you!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Quan Barry's "The 1986 Apple Super Bowl Commercial as Intervention" refers to this iconic 1984 Apple Computer commercial aired during the SuperBowl.

The Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem we mention is "Three Cows and the Moon" was originally published in New England Review in 1993. You can hear Kelly read the poem here (~10 minutes). It's fucking worth it!

William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark" was the title poem of Stafford's 2nd book, published in 1962, which won the 1963 National Book Award. To look at some drafts of this poem, check out the Stafford archive online. Hear him read it here.

Read more about Kevin Killian's Selected Amazon Reviews. And check out this brief (~1min) Instagram post of Killian reading from it here.

The poem by Linda Gregg that James mentions (with women standing in the trees knocking down figs) is "The Poet Goes About Her Business."

You can read Kate Daniels "War Photograph" here. For more about the photograph and the people in it, read this article.

Read Nazim Hikmet's "On Living" and learn more about Hikmet here.

The library is open--to prose the queens find indispensable for poets!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

You can find John Hollander's Rhyme's Reason here.

Check out an excerpt in the NYT from Michael Schmidt Lives of the Poets.

Here's an NPR review of Olivia Laing's Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. For more about Agnes Martin by Olivia Laing, check out this interview. Maggie Nelson engaged in this conversation with Laing about Laing's book Everybody.

Check out this reading and conversation between Adam Moss, the author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, and two of his subjects: Marie Howe and Michael Cunningham.

Purchase Rebecca Brown's The Gifts of the Body, which Publisher's Weekly called "beautifully controlled, immensely affecting." It is 176 pages.

You can get Brown's What Keeps Me Here (stories) here.

Read this review of Annie Ernaux's The Use of Photography, which includes some excerpts from the book.

Read James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son."

For more about Kevin Killian's Selected Amazon Reviews, click here.

Here's an NPR "Fresh Air" interview with Toni Morrison about writing Beloved.

Watch Wayne Koestenbaum's "Why I Make Mini-Movies"