Brenda Hillman
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Poems from Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire :
  • “The Elements are Mixed in Childhood"
  • “Summer Mountain Lightning & Some Music"  

also by Brenda (online)
  • “The Mostly Everything That Everyone Is," Emergence Magazine 
  • “To Mycorrhizae Under our Mother's Garden," Poem-A-Day (poetry.org)
  • “The Trance Method" (essay excerpt), The Drunken Boat 
  • Ana Cristina Cesar translation, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art
  • “Estero afternoon: on the left side" and “During a Suite by Gaspard Cassardó," Taos Journal of Poetry and Art 
  • “November Moon," “Little Philokalia: A Beauty Makeover,"  “The Bat" and “world-axis," Electronic Poetry Review
  • Review of Nathaniel Tarn, Jacket Magazine 
  • Review of Juliana Spahr's Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism,  How2 Journal
  • “On Song, Lyric, and Strings,” New American Writing #25
  • “A Quiet Afternoon at the Office" and an interview for “Red White and Blue: Poets on Politics," Poetry Society of America
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interviews
  • “A Conversation: Brenda Hillman and Frances Richard," for Studio One Reading Series
  • The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Brenda Hillman
  • “Imagining Ecopoetics: An Interview with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Evelyn Reilly, Jonathan Skinner" by Angela Hume, Oxford Journals: ISLE
  • Interview with Kevin Larimer for Poets & Writers Magazine
  • Pablo Lopez interviews Brenda Hillman, for Studio One Reading Series
  • “Our Very Greatest Human Thing is Wild” from Rain Taxi 

audio/visual
  • Brenda Hillman reads “In a Subcommittee Hearing on Electronic Surveillance" at the Squaw Valley Benefit reading
  •  KCRW Bookworm interview with Brenda Hillman on Practical Water, with Michael Silverblatt
  • Brenda Hillman reading “After A Very Long Difficult Day,” Slate magazine
  • Brenda Hillman on A Voice Box, Pegasus Books, Berkeley, 2007​
  • Poetry Live: The Voice That Is Great Within Us," dialogue with Brenda Hillman, Graham Foust and Matthew Zapruder at Walnut Creek Public Library, 2009



Reviews: 

Extra Hidden Life, among the Days
  • “Some Kinds of Forever Visit You" by Amanda Ogea for Freeverse 
  • “Hillman...in her 10th and most lavish collection..." by ​Publishers Weekly
  • “Brenda Hillman has never gone gentle into any good night" by Forrest Gander for New York Journal of Books
  • “Her work is fierce but loving, risk-taking and beautiful" by Andrea Syzdek for Harvard Review
  • “Brenda Hillman's Extra Hidden Life, among the Days  ponders how poetry can help us chronicle, engage, grieve" by Craig Morgan Tiecher for Los Angeles Times​
  • “The Unconscious of Earth" by Elizabeth Metzger for Boston Review
  • “Top Spring Poetry" by Barbara Hoffert for Library Journal
  • “Unknowing Beauty Among: Brenda Hillman's Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days" by Chris Stroffolino for Entropy Magazine
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
  • “This Consciousness So Outside My Own" by Michael Morse for Tikkun
  • “Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire" by Karen An-Hwei Lee for The Iowa Review
  • “An Ecstasy of Now: Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire," by Ashley Colley - Drunken Boat
  • “Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire" by Charles Altieri for Feedback - Open Humanities Press
  • “Two poets, one couple, to read their works in St. Helena" by Rosemarie Kempton for Napa Valley Register
  • “What Poetry Can Do: Brenda Hillman & Geoffrey G. O'Brien" by Dean Rader for The Huffington Post
  • Review  from Publisher's Weekly 
  • “Why I Chose Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works ... for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club" by Camille Dungy for The Rumpus
Practical Water
  •  Craig Morgan Teicher for Boston Review
  •  “On Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water” Kristina Marie Darling for Kenyon Review
  •  “The Natural Infuses the Municipal” by T.M. De Vos for Cerise Press
Pieces of Air in the Epic 
  • “Geometries of the Turn: Fulke Greville and Brenda Hillman” by Jonathan Weinert for Voltage Poetry
  • Pieces on “Pieces of Air in the Epic” by Barbara Claire Freeman, etc. from Jacket Magazine
  •  “Pieces of Air in the Epic by Brenda Hillman” review by Christine Hamm on Galatea Resurrects #4
  •  “A Broken Place” Amy Newlove Schroeder for Boston Review
  •  Tara Gorvine for Verse Magazine
  •  Rob McLennan’s Blog 
  • “Voice Loops Through Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic: Articulating the Social Lyric” by Beth Staley for Jacket Magazine 
  • “Platonic Oxygen: On Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic”  by Susan McCabe for Denver Quarterly
Cascadia ​
  • “The Only Constant is the Page Number: Brenda Hillman’s Cascadia” by Kevin Arnold in Valparaiso Poetry Review
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