LUCKY FISH named a finalist in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards

please consider voting? pretty, pretty please with a slice of mango on top? xo

2011 Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Best Poetry

Vote now for LUCKY FISH!

The Origin of the Whale Shark: An Ars Poetica

from the incredible poetics series, ABOUT A WORD.

(Be sure to read amazing essays from Patrick Rosal, Sarah Vap, Oliver de la Paz, and Ross Gay, too!)

LUCKY FISH review in Orion Magazine

“…You could say that this charming and buoyant book is “about” a lot of things—finding a home, love—but really, these poems point toward the importance of attentiveness as a path to joy, however fragile. And while the poems are lucid (read more…)

California Poetics reviews LUCKY FISH

thanks so much to Gina Bernard!

“…Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a poet who delights readers with her keen view of the world, which is often influenced by her insatiable wonder and her travels; this year, she gives us the gift of (read more…)

Poetry Foundation review

with dear thanks to the inimitable Rigoberto Gonzalez at the Poetry Foundation:

“…Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s third book, recently released by Tupelo Press (which also published Miracle Fruit and At the Drive-In Volcano) affirms

her reputation as one of the master miners of the (read more…)

HTML GIANT Interview

With ridiculously giant (get it, ha ha) thanks to the utterly fabulous Roxane Gay for doing this interview on one of my fave go-to sites on writing.

Also? How dee-lightful is that star backdrop??

Fall 2010 interview with Katonah Poetry Series

As part of my appearance for the Katonah Poetry Series on 10/2/11, a new interview here.