Tag: Kristina Marie Darling

Nonfiction Review: Karin Falcone Krieger Reads Kristina Marie Darling’s Essay Collection Look to Your Left

Prolific author and champion of experiment Kristina Marie Darling reveals a thriving culture of feminist poetics in this recent collection of critical essays, as well as using the lyric essay to expose the dark side of sexism in academic circles. In a spare 140 pages, this collection has many characteristics of a conventional academic text.…
“Inside Endless Epidemics in America” – Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic, a Tupelo Press anthology edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine, reviewed by Amy Strauss Friedman

As of this writing, over 420,000 Americans have died from Coronavirus, to say nothing of the suffering of millions of others. “They died breathing the country that failed them. They died without the hands that should have held them at the last breath. They died in nobody’s arms,” Rachel Eliza Griffiths tells us, a truth…
“A Look Forward”: Announcing the Inaugural Zachary Doss Memorial Fellowship Winners & Finalists

Hello Feathers. Ryan here. I am pleased to announce that our judges, Brandi Wells and Leia Penina Wilson, have chosen the four winners for the inaugural Zachary Doss Friends in Letters Memorial Fellowship! Before I commence with the winners, I just want to say thank you, first and foremost, to every single person who submitted…
“The Tension between Order and Chaos”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Shin Yu Pai

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and Scorched Altar: Selected Poems and Stories 2007-2014 (BlazeVOX Books, 2014). Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as…
“Night Songs”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Sally Deskins

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of sixteen books, which include Melancholia (An Essay) (Ravenna Press, 2012), Petrarchan (BlazeVOX Books, 2013), and a forthcoming hybrid genre collection called Fortress from Sundress Publications. Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as grants from the…
“I Thought Often of the Hem of a Skirt, Unraveling While Someone Runs, the Thread Creating Its Own Design”: An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess by Nathan Moore

Here I get the chance to talk to Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess about collaboration and their book X Marks the Dress: A Registry, forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2014. Our conversation takes place via e-mail over a period of about two weeks. Carol Guess is the author of eleven books: Seeing Dell…
“The House by the Sea”: Daniel J. Cecil Reviews Petrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling

In short-order three works by the same author, Kristina Marie Darling, landed on my desk. I feel a certain amount of hesitation when I decide to review another writer’s work. I almost get a bit itchy. I was initially inclined by gut reaction to pass on this one—reviewing the same author (Darling) within a few…
“Assembling in the Margins”: The Moon & Other Inventions by Kristina Marie Darling, reviewed by Daniel J. Cecil

Joseph Cornell was an American sculptor and a maker of assemblage, a recluse, and according to several biographical sources, rarely left his home in Flushing, New York. During his long career he constructed dozens of ornate boxes that related small narratives between the spaces of reason. According to the Oxford Dictionary,an assemblage is a collection…
Review: Melancholia, by Kristina Marie Darling

Kristina Marie Darling has created a true gem of a poetry collection with Melancholia (An Essay). Reminiscent of Anne Carson’s use of language and interpretation in Decreation and Natasha Trethewey’s narrative arc in Bellocq’s Ophelia, Darling utilizes language and imagery to create a flowing story told through poetry. Darling is incredibly adept at painting pictures…