Press & Media
Press for Descent
- Poets & Writers Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
- Ten Questions for Lauren Russell (Poets & Writers)
- Yona Harvey on Lauren Russell's DESCENT ("Books We've Loved," Poetry Daily)
- Review by Jesi Buell (The Rumpus)
- Review by Anna Vitale (Full Stop)
- Review by Tyrone Williams (Chicago Review)
- Pitt Magazine Feature
- Review by Maya Marshall (RHINO)
- Review by Liz Axelrod (Boog City)
- Kiki Petrosino, "The Poet's Nightstand" (Poetry Society of America)
- Shelley Wong, "7 Poetry Collections by Queer Women of Color" (Electric Lit)
- Kenyon Review's Summer Reading Recommendations, 2020
- Los Angeles Public Library, "Poems on Air"
- 50 Poetry Books by Black Writers about Justice, Abolition, and Black History (Luther Hughes)
- 60 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Summer 2020 (Autostraddle)
- 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards
Press for What's Hanging On the Hush
- Starred Review (Publishers Weekly)
- Salvaging Silences in Lauren Russell’s What’s Hanging on the Hush (Anomaly)
- May 2018 Micro-Reviews (Kenyon Review)
- Review by Maya Marshall (Yemassee Journal)
- Review by Fred Shaw (Pittsburgh City Paper)
- Review by Joshua Escobar (The Poetry Project)
- Review (Rob McLennan's Blog)
- Review (Inside Our Minds)
- Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2017 (Entropy Magazine)
Interviews
- Julia Cohen and Abby Hagleer's "Original Obsessions: An Interview with Lauren Russell," Tarpaulin Sky, 2021
- New Books Network, 2021, with Philip Lance
- Ten Questions for Lauren Russell, 2020, Poets & Writers
- NaPoWriMo, 2018, with Maureen Thorson
- "Voices of Bettering American Poetry," 2016, for VIDA Review
- Tethered by Letters, conducted 2015, published 2017, with Leah Scott
Videos
Lauren reading from Descent, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Prize (April 2021)
Descent Virtual Book Launch, hosted by White Whale Bookstore (June 2020)
Authors in the Archives at Brown University’s John Hay Library with Lauren Russell and Megan Milks (October 2019)
Carthage College Visiting Writers Series with Soham Patel and Lauren Russell (October 2018)
Lauren Russell Reading at Four Pairs, Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles (September 2018)