Todd Boss
in paint
10/09: MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO NEWS
(interview and feature)
Local poets putting words in motion
On the eve of the first screening of Motionpoems, Todd’s animated poetry initiatve, Euan Kerr interviews Todd and Motionpoems co-founder Angella Kassube. Todd says, “The problem with poetry is its distribution method.” Discuss.
04/09: THE SPLENDID TABLE (interview & poem)
Todd was commissioned by American Public Media through a grant from the Poetry Foundation to write a poem for the show. He reads it and talks with host Lynne Rosetto Kasper.
03/09: UTNE READER (profile)
A generous new voice in American poetry
“Todd Boss is something of a rarity—a poet whose work reaches beyond the increasingly impenetrable walls of contemporary verse and generously welcomes readers into its fragile, beautiful world.”
03/09: 77 SQUARE, Madison, WI (feature)
Native poet chronicles not-so-simple life
"How do you love, how do you even know someone so different from yourself? It's a question of empathy, and it goes beyond tolerance. When I write a love poem, I'm not letting myself off any hooks. I'm not going to paint it as some sentimental love story, because the truth is just so much more compelling."
01/09: CHARLESTON POST & COURIER (review)
Poetry of Todd Boss lyrical, memorable
“To read a Boss poem is like watching a figure skater. What's before you is lyrical and efficient, every move deserving attention, looking deceptively easy.”
12/08 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (review)
A poet’s debut hits the mark
“If you buy only one book of poetry this year, make it Yellowrocket.”
Pulitzer-winning literary critic Jack Miles tells the Pioneer Press:
There is a burdened, struggling, imprisoned quality about much contemporary poetry from which Todd Boss seems a star-kissed escapee.
12/08 CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER (review)
Todd Boss turns words into play
“Yellowrocket is more than a book to admire. It is to read and reread, illuminating the distances between what's heard and what's understood.”
12/08 MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO (feature)
Todd Boss rides his Yellowrocket
Todd on getting the girl, telling lies, and Barack Obama. (Lots of additional content.)
11/08 ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS (feature)
Poet lands book deal with major publisher
Book critic Mary Ann Grossman tells the improbable tale of Todd’s debut collection, Yellowrocket, and how he became the poet laureate of Nina’s Cafe in St. Paul.
11/08 ST. ANTHONY PARK BUGLE (feature)
Running records till the hiss was a surf
Todd’s old neighborhood newspaper tells how Todd learned to love poetry, and how he builds his poems “like houses.”
10/08 MICHIGAN WRITERS RADIO (interview)
Aaron Stander of Interlochen Public Radio talks with Todd, who reads several poems from his debut collection, Yellowrocket. Archived here.
Press kit? Here.