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Poet Jim Daniels can't get enough praise, as his new book Birth Marks-- which travels from one urban landscape to the next--receives yet another noteworthy review. According to Poets @ Work reviewer Liv Lansdale, "Jim Daniels’s Birth Marks is a deeply enjoyable read. Reading it, I remembered why his is the type of poetry my favorite poets try to emulate ... The poems feature characters with finely tuned emotions, and each are captured by unforgettable imagery, each rendered in a different galvanized voice." Daniels's honesty and boldness are what really set him apart from his fellow poets--he certainly knows how...

In a recent interview by Words Apart magazine, Jillian Weise, author of The Book of Goodbyes, talks in-depth about her experiences as a self-proclaimed "cyborg" poet. Known for her candid literary explorations of disability and sexuality, Weise uses her talents to advocate for writers with--though not defined by--disabilities. Here are some truly fascinating excerpts from the interview: Words Apart: Do you think contemporary poets, writers, novelists, playwrights, etc. have sincerely invested or fallen short in writing about disability issues? Should there be a greater literary focus on people with physical and/or mental disabilities? Jillian Weise: I'm not omniscient enough to...

BookTrib's Jamie Yourdon recently sat down with author Aurelie Sheehan to discuss the writing process and her new book Jewelry Box. The interview looks in-depth at Sheehan's own experiences as a writer, and how her new collection of stories came to be. "I wanted to write, but I had limited time to work with," says Aurelie Sheehan, on the origin of Jewelry Box. "Also, I was thinking about history: I wanted to find a way into the past and its stories. And so the project was born - a book of histories found within objects and, as the project went...

To kick off its new and anticipated relaunch, the Biblioasis International Translation Blog excerpted three poems from BOA's newest translation The World Shared: "Earthly Delights," "Monster," and "A Mouse in a Bucket." A bilingual Polish and English collection, The World Shared carries poetry by Dariusz Sosnicki, translated by Piotr Florczyk and Boris Dralyuk. "The World Shared... is a dream-catalogue of surrealist riffs and humble strangeness. 'Earthly Delights' previously appeared in New Orleans Review, 'Monster' previously appeared in The New Yorker, and 'A Mouse in a Bucket' appears here for the first time." Click here to read the Biblioasis feature, including...

Bruce Beasley's latest poetry collection Theophobia (Fall 2012) has been named one of Poetry Northwest's "Notable Books of 2014." According to Poetry Northwest reviewer Brandon Krieg, "The gods feared in Bruce Beasley's brilliant, ambitious new collection, Theophobia are the gods we have created to replace the pre-enlightenment pantheon. Science and Technology, those terrible deities whose bidding we do in our smallest daily observances--dialing customer service, looking something up on Wikipedia--are the gods we unwittingly cry out to in the wilderness they, in fact, have created." Along with his theological ideas, Krieg notes Beasley's use of language as art: "...Beasley's language in...