The poet Terrance Hayes is “bringing the National Book Award home to Pittsburgh,” as he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Hayes’ Lighthead beat out the works of four other poets, including established writers such as C.D. Wright. Watch Hayes read at the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert and read Sampsonia Way’s interview with the author.
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Lorin Stein enjoying Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Dots Mirrored Room at the Mattress Factory The Paris Review is also well known for author interviews. Starting with E. M. Forster in 1953, these conversations are a sort of […]
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Photo © National Arts Club Page Series, pageseries.wordpress.com New York, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Claremont, Los Angeles. Those were the cities in the whistle-stop tour of Lorin Stein. On his journey, the 37-year-old editor […]
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Organizing the exhibition “Queloides: Racism and Race in Cuban Contemporary Art” has been a mix of obstacles, audacity, and adventure. The Mattress Factory Museum exhibit was first shown earlier this year in Havana and the curator Alejandro de la Fuente was unable to attend. He was banned from Cuba and later expelled from the country when he tried to visit family in Havana.
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Pittsburgh-based poet Terrance Hayes has been nominated for a National Book Award for his collection Lighthead. He is one of five finalists for poetry along with C.D. Wright, Kathleen Graber, James Richardson, and Monica Youn.
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When Meena Kandasamy speaks about the contemporary issues of her native India, she incisively reveals the societal assumptions that assign specific roles to people based on caste or gender. When she turns her attention to the […]
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Photo: © Renee Rosensteel Writer Michael Nava said reading Francisco Aragón’s poetry was like “taking a bite of a perfectly ripened apple—a fresh, sensual…experience.” The sensuality of Aragón’s two poetry collections, Puerta del Sol and Glow […]
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