yvonne C. garrett

Tag: books

  • Notes on Her Color

    Oh, how I wanted to love this book! [“Notes on Her Color” Jennifer Neal, Catapult, May 2023] Centered on a young Black and Indigenous woman growing up in Florida, this debut novel has several strong plot elements and rises above in moments but ultimately isn’t sure what it wants to be: Queer love story? YA…

  • The Power

    In a recent seminar I attended, one participant was waxing enthusiastic about the “awesome” TV series “The Power” (2023) and how it’s all about how “young girls gain power!” While the series is certainly on my list to watch – and when I do, I’ll update this post – it’s based on Naomi Alderman’s 2017…

  • some book reviews.

    So…I wrote some book reviews & The Brooklyn Rail decided to print them. You can also find them online here [Monica Drake], here [Chris Offutt], and here [Kristin Hersh, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein].

  • AWP, activism, loss, and ugly monsters.

    This year’s AWP conference was in WDC and what with the current political climate & the crowds of deep-thinking humans attending, I had high hopes for “activist moments.” Perhaps there were some in the keynote(s) that I was too exhausted to attend or during something of the panels – too numerous to choose from. The…

  • Of writing, trauma and photography

    While I’m still slogging away at NaNoWriMo (and about now it DOES feel like a “slog”)…I’m also trying to get through the last of this semester’s course work and final papers, etc. As a Ph.D. student with more than one Master’s Degree behind me (I have 4 if you’re counting), I’ve learned to separate “emotional”…

  • best of halloween-things

    I meant to post these a few at a time over the past few weeks but as is often the case, life got in the way…So quickly and off the top of my head…Here are some of my favorite spooky reads: The Bloody Chamber/Angela Carter Dracula/Bram Stoker The Haunting of Hill House/Shirley Jackson Collected Ghost…

  • of halloween and crimson leaves and things that go bump in the night

    “The night was sweet with the dust of autumn leaves that smelled as if the fine sands of ancient Egypt were drifting to dunes beyond the town.” Although I first read it when I was very small, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes remains one of my favorite books. I recently gave a copy…

  • AWP or an ocean of words and no water

    I just got back to NYC from AWP 2015 in lovely Minneapolis, MN. It was a great experience aside from the total lack of drinking water (the only options – the yellow water coming out of the drinking fountains or $3.50 small plastic bottles of water available if you had time to stand in a…

  • Happy National Poetry Month!

    Happy National Poetry Month everybody! Another April means, I have another poetry chapbook out featuring poems written by myself and my poet friend Mary Ellen Sanger.  You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1511434120/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk If you want a signed copy, come see me at AWP in Minneapolis next week or hit me up via Facebook and we’ll…

  • review of “Belfast Noir” published in Irish America Magazine

    My review of “Belfast Noir” is in the current issue of Irish America Magazine. You can read it here: http://irishamerica.com/2014/12/review-of-books-44/