Karl Zuehlke (KZ): Dear Martin, there is something I cannot quite quantify about how you put words together into such solid lines. I don't know that I want to know. Your lines and sentences just...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2014/02/ill-remind-you-that-all-books-are-made.html
Many thanks to all of you who entered our 2013 American Literary Review Awards. We are thrilled to announce this year's winners: Short fiction, judged by Matt Bell: Winner: Tori Malcangio fo...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2014/01/american-literary-review-awards-results.html
KIRK NESSET is the author of two books of short stories, Paradise Road and Mr. Agreeable , as well as a book of translations, Alphabet of the World , a nonfiction study, The Stories of Raym...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/12/sitting-radar-sidney-thompsons.html
Clint Peters (CP): Visiting writer Poe Ballantine stopped by Denton in early November this year, where he read at the University of North Texas and we rustled up breakfast at the Old West Caf...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/11/glad-you-enjoyed-your-biscuits-clint.html
Karl Zuehlke (KZ): Your book, Long Division , uses the motif of fables to allow fantastical moments simultaneously invested in a kind of logic and the moral of the story. “Moral,” here, s...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/10/mean-thrice-interview-with-alan-michael.html
Karl Zuehlke (KZ): When I read your poems in Tongue Lyre , I find myself constantly intrigued in the most enjoyable way by how you negotiate your subject matter. Greek myth, classical music, wr...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/10/an-interview-with-tyler-mills.html
American Literary Review is now open for submissions! Please send us your best fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. We are now also accepting photography. See our website for submission...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/10/general-reading-period-open-today.html
It's that season again, ALR readers: the ALR Literary Award s are open for submissions and we are reading away! We are proud to announce that the following writers will be working with Am...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/09/alr-literary-awards-contest-judges.html
AprilJo Murphy (AJM): Welcome, Tara, to our humble little webspace at American Literary Review. I was so impressed – dazed even – with your essay “Writing Memoir and Writing for Therapy �...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/09/an-interview-with-tara-dapra.html
Greetings ALR blog readers, Like all literary journals, our staff has shifted and settled in for an exciting year of reviewing, reading, and hopefully publishing your work: EDITOR: Ann McCut...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/09/alr-2013-2014-masthead-and-call-for.html
JUSTIN BIGOS: The poems in your new collection, The Real Cause for Your Absence (C&R Press, 2013), create forms for suspense, suddenness, danger. The poems often give the immediate sense (to...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-interview-with-curtis-bauer.html
The American Literary Review's 2013 Literary Awards are open for submissions as of June 1! Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2014 online issue of the American Literary Rev...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/06/american-literary-reviews-2013-literary.html
Dear ALR readers, Right now we're experiencing some technical difficulties with the blog, and you may be unable to access some of the interviews and posts properly. We're hoping to have the iss...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-technical-difficulties.html
MEZZANINES, by Matthew Olzmann Alice James Books. $15.95. Matthew Olzmann’s debut collection of poems, Mezzanines, reminds me of the poet-critic James Longenbach’s retort to Robert...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-review-of-mezzanines-by-matthew.html
ERIN STALCUP: Sincere thanks for your visit to UNT this semester. The students and I loved listening to you read your work and answer questions about it. And thank you for extending your generos...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/05/an-interview-with-tiphanie-yanique.html
JUSTIN BIGOS: In the poem “Notes for a Novice Flâneur,” from your debut collection, Taste of Cherry, the speaker says, “Try to think of all this as a seduction.” This imperative ...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-interview-with-kara-candito.html
This Friday, please join us for this public event at the UNT Denton campus: UNT Creative Writing Faculty Reading Bruce Bond Bonnie Friedman Corey Marks Ann McCutchan Miroslav Penkov Ba...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/unt-creative-writing-faculty-reading.html
2013 Rilke Prize winner Paisley Rekdal will be giving a public reading on the UNT campus April 9th, and another public reading April 10th at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Plea...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/rilke-prize-winner-paisley-rekdal-april.html
Please join us Friday, March 29th, for our second to last Graduate student reading of the year. The reading features poetry by Kyle McCord, Kara Dorris, Chelsea Wagenaar and Katy Brizendine,...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-literary-review-spring-student.html
Join us Tuesday, March 26th, as visiting writer Lisa Russ Spaar visits the UNT campus. Her reading will be in the Willis Library Forum and begins at 7pm. Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of many c...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/03/visitng-writer-lisa-russ-spaar.html
Please join us tonight, Tuesday March 19th, for Two Artists + Three Disciplines: Notes From a 20-Year Collaboration, a presentation by writer Ann McCutchan and visual artist Pat Alexander. The e...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-artists-three-disciplines-notes.html
Please join us this evening, March 2nd, at 7:30 for an American Literary Review Graduate Reading, featuring poetry by Nate Logan and Jenny Molberg, fiction by Andy Briseño, and non-fiction b...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/03/american-literary-review-graduate.html
JUSTIN BIGOS: First, I’d like to thank you for visiting UNT last week as part of our Visiting Writers Series, and reading poems from your tremendous book, Sky Burial, as well as some new...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-interview-with-dana-levin.html
THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS YEAR'S AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW LITERARY AWARDS. WE READ MORE THAN OUR FAIR SHARE OF EXCELLENT PROSE AND POETRY AND THE FOLLOWING WRITERS CAME OU...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/02/2013-alr-literary-awards.html
Dana Levin’s first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive nearly every award available to first books ...
http://americanliteraryreview.blogspot.com/2013/02/poet-dana-levin-reading-at-unt-february.html