Selected Interviews & Reviews & Essays

Elena Karina Byrne interviews Poet/Memoirist Jan Beatty
Skylight Books November 15, 2021
https://skylightbooks.podbean.com/e/skylit-jan-beatty-american-bastard-w-elena-karina-byrne/.

Elena Karina Byrne interviews screenwriter/poet Perry Janes 
LARB April 10, 2021
https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org?p=324095&post_type=article&preview=1&_ppp=03df001679

Elena Karina Byrne interviews poet Megan Fernandes
Adroit Journal   June 4, 2020
https://theadroitjournal.org/2020/06/04/conversations-with-contributors-megan-fernandes/

Elena Karina Byrne interviews painter, physicist, author Enrique Martínez Celaya
LARB August 20, 2020
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/truth-maps-a-conversation-with-enrique-martinez-celaya/

Full Stop Journal 2022 Review of poet Gillian Conoley’s Selected Poems
https://www.full-stop.net/2022/07/15/reviews/elena-karina-byrne/a-little-more-red-sun-on-the-human-new-and-selected-poems-gillian-conoley/

Poetry Magazine: Harriet Books Reading List 2018: “Something as equally primal and sophisticated as grief” 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2018/10/reading-list-october-2018

Poetry Magazine: Editor’s Blog: Reading List 2017: “Folly and Genius” 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2017/09/reading-list-september-2017

Selected Interviews & Reviews for Elena

LARB Review of Dean Rader’s ekphrastic book on Cy Twombly, Before the Borderless, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/masterful-mourning-on-dean-raders-before-the-borderless/

NPR ~ KNAU Arizona, Poetry Snaps Feature (2022) Morning Edition & All Things Considered
https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2022-11-25/poetrysnaps-elena-byrne-william-wegmans-weimaraner-william

Editor’s Choice, Featured Poet Poetry Daily
https://poems.com/poem/reality-may-still-be-unacceptable-gerhard-richter-a-repeating-dream-im-belly-down-at-eleven/

Cervena Barva Press April 2022 Neil Leadbeater Review of If This Makes You Nervous
http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/April_2022_newsletter.htm#BOOKREVIEW1

INTERLITQ (2021):
http://interlitq.org/blog/2021/12/10/interlitqs-californian-poets-interview-series-elena-karina-byrne-poet-editor-consultant-moderator-for-the-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books-interviewed-by-david-garyan/

KPFK, Poets Café Live Radio, 2019 Interview:
https://www.loispjones.com/2019/01/30/elena–karina–byrne–on–poets–cafe/

Claremont Graduate University, “Poets at Work” Live 2019 Podcast:
http://poetsatwork.libsyn.com/s01e05–poetry–los–angeles–with–elena–karina–byrne

Massachusetts Review (2019), 10 Questions:
https://www.massreview.org/node/7433

Georgia Circuit Visit  2019 Podcast / Articles
https://www.dosavannah.com/entertainmentlife/20190403/listen–do–savannah–podcast–april–4––elena–karina–byrne;  

Barnes & Noble Review
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/squander–elena–karina–byrne/1123604313

Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert Review of Squander: “Top Fall Poetry: Great Reading Beyond the Basics from Veterans and Newcomers Alike,” by BARBARA HOFFERT (October 17, 2016) 
http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2016/10/books/nonfic/arts–humanities/top–fall–poetry–great–reading–beyond–the–basics–from–veterans–and–newcomers–alike/

Anomaly, Online Review of Squander
https://medium.com/anomalyblog/elena–karina–byrnes–squander–omnidawn–2016–b3f5b9442f3d

Lana Turner Journal, 2016 Review of Squander by Calvin Bedient (doc upon request)

Best American Poetry Week Blog, 2009:
“Telling Truth”

“Prozac, Angst, Authenticity, and our Duende”
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/08/prozac-angst-authenticity-and-our-duende.html

“Where the Wild Things Are”
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/08/where-the-wild-things-are.html

“THAT'S EXTRA! (5 Easy Pieces)”
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/08/thats-extra.html; 

“Poets Anonymous: 12 Steps with a Marianne Moore Poem, ‘Nevertheless.’” https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2009/08/poets-anonymoustwelve-steps.html?cid=6a00e54fe4158b88330120a4f4c6bc970b#comment-6a00e54fe4158b88330120a4f4c6bc970b