Recent news featuring Copper Canyon Press poets.
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze on New Mexico PBS with Lou DiVizio
Arthur Sze sits down with Lou DiVizio at NMPBS for a discussion about his work as a poet and translator, as well as the relationship between his art and New Mexico.
Watch the full interview here.
“The Baboon of the Past,” an interview with Pádraig Ó Tuama on Ask the Poet
Pádraig Ó Tuama joins Kathryn Petruccelli for a conversation on authenticity in ritual, time, and the presence of the past.
Listen to the full interview here.
Cocklebur: New and Selected Poems by Erin Belieu receives starred review from Publishers Weekly
“Spanning her four-decade oeuvre, the sparkling sixth collection from Belieu (Come-Hither Honeycomb) captures her propulsive lyricism and trademark imagistic dynamism. Here is Belieu’s fully realized poetic voice singing clearest and most poignantly in self-proclaimed ‘early dotage’—’a savage trick.’ One example is ‘In the Red Dress I Wear to Your Funeral,’ a tour-de-force paean to divorce disguised as a dead husband’s elegy: ‘I root through your remains,/ looking for the black box// …my personal Zapruder film—// …Is my hair not coiffed like the monster’s bride,/ lightning bolts screeching at my temples?// …I’m a borscht-belt comedienne/ working the audience from behind/ your headstone.’ But Belieu’s poems are not all ironic artillery (‘I must change/ what I cannot accept’ the speaker admits in ’12-Step’). The section of new poems pairs vivid metaphor with hard-won insight: ‘The stories we’re told/ as children reside/ permanently inside us// Like measuring cups// one fear sits snugly/ inside the next, teaching/ us to tidy our darkness// into the smallest/ amount of space.’). Readers will find this scintillating and memorable.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Egrets, While War reviewed in the Compulsive Reader
“Tishani Doshi juxtaposes violence with timeless endurance, patient resolution with destruction, almost like a manifestation of Shiva, the creator/destroyer god of Hinduism. She writes about the ongoing ‘dirge of loss recovery / loss loss loss,’ but assures us that ‘Our task is to march on.’”—Charles Rammelkamp, Compulsive Reader
Richard Siken Reads Jorie Graham on The New Yorker: Poetry podcast
Richard Siken joins The New Yorker: Poetry podcast host Kevin Young to read his poem “Piano Lesson” and discuss Jorie Graham’s poetry.
Listen to the full episode here.
2026 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading with Marianne Boruch
September 29 | 7:00 pm | New York, NY
Poets & Writers hosts Marianne Boruch, winner of the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize, and Pádraig Ó Tuama for a reading and conversation at The Greene Space in New York City. This event will also be livestreamed.
Live Wire with Paisley Rekdal and Eliot Glazer
September 17 | 7:30 pm PT | Portland, Oregon
Paisley Rekdal, winner of the 2024 Kingsley Kate Tufts Award, and Eliot Glazer, comedian and writer, sit down for a wide-ranging conversation on the variety show, Live Wire.
A Masterclass on Heartbreak in Poetry with Richard Siken
September 8 – 29 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm ET on Tuesdays | Virtual
This fall, study the poetry of Richard Siken and its changing representations of heartbreak as his concerns move from the loss of love, to war, and then to identity itself. This four-part seminar meets weekly on Tuesdays and will be led by Richard Siken.
Reserve your place in the seminar.
Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass at City Lights Bookstore
September 16 | 7:00 pm PT | San Francisco, CA
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass joins celebrated poet Brenda Hillman for a celebration of their new collections. Hass will read from his latest book, A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World.
“Any Younger” by Natalie Shapero in The New Yorker
“Only some of me / is here on Earth. / Like when I close my / coat in the car door— / the rest is outside.”—from “Any Younger” by Natalie Shapero
“Five Murders” by Randall Mann on Poets.org
“I memorized the names / of my fit dormitory friends: / they stirred, like the trees, / my desire for the unknown.”—from “Five Murders” by Randall Mann