"I WAS AN OCEAN AWAY"
Video by Jeff Pohorski; reading of poem excerpt by Marilyn Annucci
REVIEW OF THE ARROWS THAT CHOOSE US
Excerpt: The poems "brim with epiphanies and detailed palpability....[T]his debuting book testifies to a long apprenticeship."
The book is reviewed by Caterina Ricciardi (Università Roma Tre) in Italian Americana (Winter 2019, Vol. XXXVIII, Number 1).
REVIEW OF THE ARROWS THAT CHOOSE US
Excerpt: Annucci's "theme is aloneness, and each poem broadens that loneliness to become a moral voice weighing what we mean to each other and what we could mean. Some poems offer unexpected patterns, others emphasize with a stylish swag."
The book is reviewed by Grace Cavalieri of the Washington Independent Review of Books in her July 2018 poetry exemplars.
REVIEW OF THE ARROWS THAT CHOOSE US
Excerpt: "Marilyn Annucci’s work escapes the trap of easy Facebook quotability. Answers are not so easy to find in Annucci’s recent collection The Arrows That Choose Us (Press 53, 2018), yet the questions prove irresistible."
The book is reviewed by Linda Falkenstein of Isthmus, January 31, 2019
Q & A INTERVIEW
Here's a 2018 Q & A with me by the Arts + Literature Lab (Rita Mae Reese and Anne Aaker) in the ALL Review.
PODCAST INTERVIEW
Alex Hancock (Fermat's Last Theater Co.) interviews me about the ghost writer poems interwoven throughout the book, and how they tie into the book's main themes. I also read some poems.
BOOK AWARD WINNER
The Council of Wisconsin Writers announces The Arrows That Choose Us as the 2018 winner of the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award.
WISCONSIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AWARD
The Arrows That Choose Us was a 2019 Literary Award Winner for an Outstanding Achievement.