Traci Brimhall: mastery is the beginning of a practice and poetry… it loves you back

Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), winner of the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Read More

The Poetry World Series: of litquake and the literary death match

(Evan Karp) As Litquake approaches and the air brings us memories of what’s to come (soon we will turn into pumpkins), it’s a perfect time to reflect on what makes San Francisco such a beautiful place for literature. It’s not the festival that makes us what we are, but the spirit of the festival (here’s Read More