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Reviews
Green Hills Literary Lantern, Summer 2011
Beautiful in the Mouth
West Branch, Spring 2011
This Side of the River: An Annual Review of Books
Midtown Review, March 16, 2011
New Poetry: Short but Tweet
CutBank, February 28, 2011
Beautiful in the Mouth, Keetje Kuipers
Harriet: A Blog from the Poetry Foundation, September 16, 2010
Poetry Best Sellers, Sept. 5- 12
The Rumpus, July 2010
Star Smoked Skies
Swarthmore College Bulletin, July 2010
Shared Complicity: The Poetry of Keetje Kuipers
The Line Press, May 8, 2010
Redactions: Poetry and Poetics
Gently Read Literature, May 1, 2010
Bittersweet: Lori May on Keetje Kuipers’s Beautiful in the Mouth
Eugene Weekly, April 15, 2010
Books: The Ask and the Answers
Devil's Lake, 2010
Keetje Kuipers, Beautiful in the Mouth
ForeWord Reviews, 2010
Poets at Home: Publishing Houses that Poetry Built
Tar River Poetry, Fall 2010
"The poems in Beautiful in the Mouth mostly identify themselves with a poetic register that is more tangible, emotionally sincere, linguistically straightforward and sensuous than that of the experimental lyric; it is also, while not at all reticent, acutely aware of the limits of language and of the off-putting quality of tone that authorial certainty and/or navel-gazing typically creates.... Keetje Kuipers' battle is with the ineffable, not with the perceived or actual limits inherent in any particular aesthetic approach.... Kuipers' is a poetry that demonstrates how instabilities inherent in the contested space between lyric and narrative conventions can yield poems that teeter and slip between location and dislocation, language and silence, past and present, presence and absence.... Often in Beautiful in the Mouth, the inability to find the words to say is at least partially caused by distance--both physical and emotional--, and it is this lack of proximity, then, that serves to thwart desire.... Keetje Kuipers' Beautiful in the Mouth is a collection that throbs with keen desire, restless loneliness, frustration and, occasionally, striking recklessness."--John Hoppenthaler
Library Journal, 2010
"In her debut collection, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Kuipers untangles the interwoven discourse between life’s richness and barrenness, its fullness and hollowness. Daily experiences fuel her poems, providing lavish, sensual images rife with exuberant details. Though the concise language sometimes becomes sentimental—“no one/ was coming to give me what I/ needed, but I lay down and waited/ anyway”—the poet ultimately turns what seems to be a standard prose line into true poetry by adding a twist or creating a sudden paradox. Nature plays a vital role in these poems, dictating even their internal music and fluctuation: “I let them chase me into the woods/ dead leaves fly like sparks under my heel.” And though many poems are autobiographical, there’s a skillful braiding of the personal with the impersonal, the real with the unreal. VERDICT This book introduces an original and promising voice that will be a joy for all curious poetry readers."—Sadiq Alkoriji, South Regional Lib., Broward Cty., FL
Interviews
The Writers' Block, June 25, 2011
Q+A with Keetje Kuipers
Frontal Junkyard, February 2, 2011
Interview with Keetje Kuipers
How a Poem Happens, February 21, 2011
Contemporary Poets Discuss the Making of Poems: Keetje Kuipers
Dark Sky Magazine, December 20, 2010
Spotlight on... Keetje Kuipers
ConnotationPress.com, October 2010
Keetje Kuipers Interview with John Hoppenthaler
Jessie Murphy in the Woods, September 6, 2010
Thank you, Please, and Welcome to the Woods Keetje Kuipers
Montana Public Radio, August 12, 2010
The Write Question
UO Channel, July 22, 2010
UO Today #451: Keetje Kuipers
Blog Talk Radio, April 16, 2010
The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion/ Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace
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Articles
The Rumpus, June 28, 2011
The Last Poem I Loved: "Sparrow" by Melissa Kwasny
The Times-Delphic, February 16, 2011
Writers and Critics Series brings poetic role model
Lambda Literary, February 14, 2011
AWP: Outsiders Writing the Outside
Poets & Writers, January/February, 2011
Debut Poets of 2010
Salem Weekly, December 1, 2010
Poetry With a Way In: The Work of Keetje Kuipers
The Phoenix, April 15, 2010
Alum sheds light on poetry, creative process
Guest Blog Posts
University of Oregon Creative Writing Program, Fall 2010
On Stanford and Stegners
BOA Editions Blog, May 5, 2010
The Perfect Country and Western Song
BOA Editions Blog, April 20, 2010
AWP: the Denver Edition
BOA Editions Blog, April 6, 2010
First Book Q&A
iphone Apps
PoemFlow.com, 2010
Across a Great Wilderness Without You
The Writers' Block, June 2011
Wilderness Poems
Prairie Lights, September 9, 2010
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