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Paper Concert features in three! Paragraphs of the Week at The Humble Essayist
Jenny Patton interviews Amy for Essay Daily.
Best-American essayist Eric LeMay, on the New Books Network, says, “in her new book, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round (Sarabande, 2021)…Wright orchestrates—the thoughts and reflections of a dizzying and dazzling range of thinkers, artists, scientists, and true human beings, sharing their experiences and reflections on what it means to be, to live, to make, to grieve, to laugh and, as Wright's entire book attests, to share meaningful conversations that leave us all the richer for the encounter.”
Paper Concert contributor Janisse Ray joins Amy in conversation at the Southern Festival of Books.
Wright features on The Beat, Knoxville Public Library’s poetry podcast
Think I’ll Go Eat a Worm is featured on the front page of the Southwest Virginia Enterprise.
Architrave Press recently letterpress printed a broadside of my poem “On Concealment.”
A review by Nicole Sheets in the Kenyon Review compares Everything in the Universe to “walking through a natural history museum exhibit curated by Andy Warhol"
Review by Tom Daley of Cracker Crumbs in the Bed, Rhinestones.
“Yam Weevil” features on Verse Daily.
Daniel Cross Turner interviews Amy and co-author William Wright for StorySouth.
Interviewer Eric LeMay calls Cracker Sonnets "powerful, moving, and often times hilarious" on the New Books Network.
Rachelle Escamilla interviewed Amy for Poetry Radio KKUP.
A paragraph from Wherever the Land Is featured as Paragraph of the Week on The Humble Essayist.
Austin Peay State University celebrated Wright’s release of four books in 2016.
Buzzfeed names Paper Concert one of “Eighteen Books from Small Presses You’ll Love”
Bestselling New York Times author Margaret Renkl interviews Wright for Parnassus Books. This virtual event includes a reading from the book’s introduction.
Pushcart-Prize-winning essayist Joni Tevis interviews Wright for Fourth Genre, saying, “Ultimately, Paper Concert’s generosity of spirit makes me want to be a better person.”
Lauren Turner, in a review of Paper Concert in The Nashville Scene says: “Like the skillful spider, Wright’s feat of web-spinning is courageous and bold. Her trust in each glistening thread before her challenges the reader, also, to trust where each one might lead into infinite connections.”
Paper Concert contributors Ira Sukrungruang, Eric LeMay, Rebecca McClanahan, and Jericho Parms spoke with Amy on the AWP 2022 panel Breakthrough Nonfiction Forms
Wright leads a talk for SCAD’s Guests & Gusto series on how to Drive Conversations Across Poetry, Film, Tech, and More.
Paper Concert contributors Eric LeMay, Rebecca McClanahan, Sejal Shah, and Ira Sukrungruang spoke with Amy about how Breakthrough Forms Forge Social Structures at NonfictioNOW.
The Butterfly Nail features as Paragraph of the Week at The Humble Essayist.
Poet Rick Jackson talks about Amys investment in the preservation of Appalachian nature and culture for the Meacham Writers’ Conference.
Speaking of Marvels interviews me about my prose chapbook Think I’ll Go Eat a Worm.
“Hologram from Milan” wins The London Magazine Essay Competition. Judges Pico Iyer and Nicola Griffith say: “We both loved ‘Hologram from Milan’ for its mixture of humanity and art, for the way it unfolded a somewhat familiar tale in an invigoratingly original way.”
“Specimen” wins the Quarterly West Creative Nonfiction Prize, judged by Tessa Fontaine, who says: “This essay brought such big ideas together in beautiful, moving ways.”
Kathleen Brewin Lewis, in her review in Still Journal, writes: If the renowned naturalist and entomologist E.O. Wilson were an eco-poet, he might be Amy Wright, lyrically describing insects as if they were the rarest of jewels, displaying encyclopedic knowledge of the exoskeletal world in the poems of Everything in the Universe.”
East Side Storytellin’ 41 was hosted by Chuck Beard of Nashville Bookstore East Side Story. This recorded event features Wright’s poetry and music by Sara Marie Thompson, Ian Ferguson and Becca Mancari.
