Poetry News

Clocktower Radio Show With Lillian-Yvonne Bertram!

Originally Published: August 11, 2015

For their series Paper Cuts, and the show Personal Science, Clocktower Radio talks with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram about her poetry, prose, photography, and zine activism! Listen here.

Discover the creator's history with chapbooks and journals as we dive further into the milieu of zines and small publishing.

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a two-time author, poet, and creator. Her first book, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award winner. She has won a host of awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship and the winning title at the 2012 Phantom Limb Press chapbook contest, participated in residencies like the Montana Artists’ Refuge, and contributed to journals including Black Warrior Review, Callaloo, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, and Indiana Review. She is the managing editor of Quarterly West at the University of Utah, a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellow at Ithaca College, and the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University for 2015-2016.