Last week, poet Julia Lisella visited Peter Covino’s poetry class to talk about her work. She read from her book, Terrain, and chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima, and talked with the class about the rhythms of her work, how she revises, and themes of motherhood, miscarriage, and friendship that run through the collection.

She and Covino talked about their connection as Italian-American writers, and her scholarship on modernists, in particular her recovery Genevieve Taggard’s work.

Also in the news this week is OSR contributor Sharon Dolin, who gave a reading to celebrate the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. Hoorah, and congratulations to Sharon and the other contributors! Also included in the anthology is Jacqueline Osherow, whose work we’re honored to get to publish in the upcoming issue of the OSR. Stay tuned!