Claire Luchette

Sep 8, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Benjamin Voigt |Alice Notley |Nick Sturm |Claire Luchette

Alice Notley has become one of America’s greatest living poets. She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of the self and the social and cultural importance of disobedience. The artist Rudy Burckhardt once wrote that Notley may be “our present-day Homer.” Notley was born in Arizona and grew up in Needles, California.

Apr 20, 2023 | nytimes.com | Claire Luchette

Books|These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Taleshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/books/eoghan-walls-the-gospel-of-orla-jade-song-chlorine-chrysalis-anna-metcalfe-american-mermaid-julia-langbein.htmlIn Eoghan Walls’s THE GOSPEL OF ORLA (236 pp., Seven Stories, paperback, $16.95), the flinty 14-year-old protagonist runs away from home and finds God — in the form of a “mad hairy” guy wrapped in a blanket who steals her bike. Enraged and afraid, she pulls a pocketknife and demands his name.

Feb 19, 2023 | nytimes.com | Claire Luchette

HOMESTEAD, by Melinda MoustakisWhen Melinda Moustakis’s engrossing debut novel, “Homestead,” begins, it’s 1956, and the vast territory of Alaska is open for the taking. If Lawrence, a 27-year-old tenderfoot from Minnesota, can make a go of it on the 150 acres he’s claimed, the land is his. “Fell the trees and clear 20 acres of land to seed a crop, raise a cabin with nails and timber, and weather the seasons,” Moustakis writes.