Press
Reviews
A Review of Boats for Women by Sandra Yannone, Mary Ellen Talley, Full review at CompulsiveReader.com | “Sandra Yannone’s brave poems contribute to popular history of the time, flooding us with the arc, the ache, of family and lesbian relationships in her first full-length collection. Some poems live in heartbreak, some, in ecstatic joy. They are worthy of many rereads."
Boats for Women by Sandra Yannone, Gale Hemmann, Full review in Calyx, Vol. 32:2 | "Sandra Yannone’s Boats for Women takes us on a water journey across the core themes of a life, tackling loss — from historical shipwrecks (the Titanic and others), to relationships docked for a bit and then untethered. … We journey with Yannone over centuries conjured and get to swirl in the sensuality of her language. Through it, we watch the light play on the water, are repeatedly cast under with her, and come out again."
Women in Dangerous Waters: On Poems by Sandra Yannone, Deborah Bacharach | Available in print in New Letters, Vol. 86, Nos. 1 & 2
Interviews & appearances
West-East Bicoastal Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond, Online Reading (Video, March 2024)
Past to Present: Readings from Boats for Women & The Glass Studio, Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon (Video, February 2024)
The Poet and the Poem: Grace Cavalieri Interviews Sandra Yannone, Library of Congress (Video, September 2021)
Sandra Yannone Reads from Boats for Women, Trasna: A Literary Journal (Video & text, April 2021)
Ó Bhéal's 13th virtual event (#656) featuring Sandra Yannone and Laurence McKeown, Online Reading from Cork, Ireland (Video, March 2021)
Sweet Connections: Sandra Yannone, Sweet: A Literary Confection (Online Literary Journal)
Boats for Women: An Interview with Poet Sandra Yannone, with Lauren Davis, Empty Mirror (Online Literary Journal)
Tour Grind: Sandra Yannone, Fear No Lit (Online Literary Journal)
Little Oracles: Divinations podcast
This special seven-episode miniseries of the Little Oracles podcast chronicles an ongoing conversation in poems between Sandy and Little Oracles host Allison Arth. They debut poems in progress, discuss the creative process, and dig into what it means to collaborate with and draw inspiration from other thinkers, makers, and creators.