The Julie Larios NC Archive Page
Julie Larios is the author of four books for children: On the Stairs (1995), Have You Ever Done That? (named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Outstanding Children’s Books 2001), Yellow Elephant (a Book Sense Pick and Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book, 2006) and Imaginary Menagerie: A Book of Curious Creatures (shortlisted for the Cybil Award in Poetry, 2008). For five years she was the Poetry Editor for The Cortland Review, and her poetry for adults has been published by The Atlantic Monthly, McSweeney’s, Swink, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Field, and others. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Pushcart Prize for Poetry, and a Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowship. Her work has been chosen for The Best American Poetry series by Billy Collins (2006) and Heather McHugh (2007) and was performed as part of the Vox series at the New York City Opera (2010). Recently she collaborated with the composer Dag Gabrielson and other New York musicians, filmmakers and dancers on a cross-discipline project titled 1,2,3. It was selected for showing at the American Dance Festival (International Screendance Festival) and had its premiere at Duke University on July 13th, 2013.
Essays
Who Am I? What the Lowly Riddle Reveals
Undersung | George Starbuck and the Heavy Burden of Light Verse
Undersung| Robert Francis, Not Robert Frost
Undersung | Marie Ponsot: Wandering Still
Undersung | Eugenio Montale: Wringing the Neck of Eloquence
Undersung| Invisible Adrien Stoutenburg
Undersung | The Poet-Novelist: Flying Crooked Forever
Undersung | Josephine Jacobsen: A Poet’s Poet
Undersung | Alastair Reid: A Sunstruck Madman
Undersung | R. F. Langley: Between Two Worlds
Undersung | John Malcolm Brinnin: “As Well-Known as I Deserve to Be”
Undersung | Ernst Jandl: Out on the Playground
Undersung | Gabriela Mistral: The Archangel, The Wind
Undersung | On the Pleasure of Slim Volumes
A Close Look | George Herbert’s “Love (III)”
Undersung | Michelangelo’s Aching Back
Poems
On Reading the Poems of Someone Buried in Poet’s Corner
A Diminished Thing & Pincushion Doll
Proposal for a Whole New Scale
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Reviews
Reflecting, Playing and Obsessing: Review of Warren Motte’s Mirror Gazing
Making Myself Happy | Review of Make Yourself Happy by Eleni Sikelianos
A Poem in Each Hand | Review of Fleda Brown’s The Woods Are On Fire
The Wrong Balcony | Review of Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall
Interviews
Tentative Nature | Interview with Eleni Sikelianos
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NC Contest Entry (too good to be missed)