Reviews & Interviews
February 2024 | Torch Magazine
February 2024 Feature: Arisa White
September 2023 | Poetry Society of America
The Poet’s Nightstand with Jane Wong: Who’s Your Daddy
June 2023 | Shepherd
Author Recommendation: Who’s Your Daddy by Beth Kephart
April 2023 | Glassworks: A Publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing
Growing Up in a Negatively Charged Home: Review of Who’s Your Daddy by Bryce Morris
December 2022 | The Common
Permission to Dream Forth: An Interview with Arisa White by July Westhale
April 2022 | Poetic Pontification
Episode 5: On Coastal Differences and Historical legacies with host Melina Kritikopoulos
August 2021 | Autostraddle
May 2021 | Hazlitt
More Than Identity, Queer is an Action, a Location: An Interview with Arisa White by Sarah Nielson
April 2021 | Brooklyn Poets
April 2021 | The Rumpus
Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White, reviewed by Keisha Bush
April 2021 | Ruth Stone House Podcast
Standing Tall Even When the Room is Crooked: Arisa White
April 2021 | The Poetry Project
Arisa White Reading & Ross Gay in Conversation
April 2021 | San Francisco Chronicle–Datebook
For Poetry Month, four new collections from Bay Area Poets
March 2021 | Pleiades
March 2021 | Fathom
Burner Phones, Galoshes, and Mashramani in Guyana
March 2021 | Writer’s Digest
Arisa White: Putting the Pieces Together
March 2021 | The Blue and Yellow Kitchen
The Blue and Yellow Kitchen: Who’s Your Daddy with Arisa White
March 2021 | The Believer
An Interview with Arisa White by Piper J. Daniels
March 2021 | GLOW
Queer Artist Feature: Arisa White
March 2021 | Literary North
March 2021 | Gibson’s Bookstore
Arisa White in Conversation with Dara Wier (Who’s Your Daddy)
March 2021 | Harvard Divinity School
Arisa White in Conversation with Rev. angel Kyodo williams (Who’s Your Daddy)
February 2021 | The Adroit Journal
The Possibility the Horizon Grants: A Conversation with Arisa White by Matthew Zapruder
January 2021 | Allonge
Poetic Book Tour: Review of Who’s Your Daddy
January 2021 | Foglifter
December 2020 | HODINKEE
The Year That Warped Time, by Genevieve Walker
July 2020 | Wiki.ezvid.com
Five Female Authors Creating Moving Poetry, edited by Sheila O’Neill
December 2019 | Out of Our Minds on KKUP
August 2019 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Biddy Mason: A Free Woman in Los Angeles by Candace Cooper
June 2019 | Colby Magazine
Past-Place and Present Moment: Arisa White on telling a slave’s story to the next generation
May 2019 | Readers’ Favorite
Five-star review of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, by Lois J. Wickstrom
April 2019 | Poetry Society of America
April 2019 | Buzzfeed
“13 Books By Queer Poets to Add to Your Reading List,” by Sarah Neilson
April 2019 | KQED Forum
Biddy Mason Speaks Up, an interview with Arisa White and Laura Atkins, hosted by Michael Krasny
April 2019 | Queer Words Podcast
Conversation with queer-identified authors about their works and lives
March 2019 | Booklist
Book Review of Biddy Mason Speaks Up
February 2019 | New York Times
“Meet Biddy Mason, A Black Woman Who Helped Build Los Angeles,” by Jill Cowan
February 2019 | Reading While White: Working for Racial Diversity and Inclusion in Books for Children and Teens
“Fighting for Justice: An Interview With the Authors,” by Allie Jane Bruce
February 2019 | Duende Literary
“Power Within Adversity: A Review of Biddy Mason Speaks Up,” by China Myers
February 2019 | The Ticker
January 2019 | M is for Movement
Interview with Laura Atkins and Arisa White by Malaika Parker
December 2018 | BayViews: Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California
Sarah Jo Zaharako Reviews Biddy Mason Speaks Up
October 2018 | Kirkus Review
August 2018 | Women’s Voices for Change
March 2018 | Black Lesbian Literary Collective
September 2017 | Ms. Magazine Blog
Fulfilling and Feeding the Creative Impulse: A Roundtable With Arisa White
September 2017 | Today’s Book of Poetry
Review: Micheal Dennis Reviews You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
July 2017 | Bustle
Book listing: 7 Books of Poetry for Long Plane Rides . . . by JoAnna Novak
July 2017 | HocTok
Review: You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
June 2017 | GraceGod The Collective: Issue IV
June 2017 | San Francisco Chronicle
“State Lines: California Poetry: Arisa White’s “Beechnut”
April 2017 | Los Angeles Review of Books
“Quiet is Creative. Silence is Death” Alyssa Oursler Interviews Arisa White
March 2017 | Publishers Weekly
Review of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
February 2017 | Kenyon Review
You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, reviewed by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
January 2017 | I am Not a Silent Poet
You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened by Arisa White, reviewed by Clara B. Jones
December 2016 | Drunken Boat
Interview: “Blessed Be #7 With Arisa White
November 2016 | Lambda Literary
Christopher Soto Reviews You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
November 2016 | Diary of An Eccentric
Emma Eden Ramos Reviews You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
October 2016| East Bay Express
October 2016 | Melissa Firman
Review of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
October 2016 | Suko’s Notebook
A Conversation With Arisa White
September 2016 | The Lesbrary
Julie Thompson Reviews You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened
April 2016 | HocTok
September 2015 | RadicalMagicalBrilliance
August 2015 | Gazing Grain Press
Arisa White Talks Emotional Mapping, Comprehending Trauma, Inclusivity, Intersectionality, & More
April 2015 | OmniVerse
Janelle Bonifacio interviews Arisa White
January 2015 | UMass Amherst Alumni Association
It’s Not Just About the Written Word
October 2014 | The BookBaby Blog
August 2014 | Hello Giggles
Book Listing: 15 Amazing Lady Poets You Need to Know Right Now
July 2014 | SF Weekly
The Write Stuff: Arisa White on Experiencing the Articulation of Preverbal Understandings
January 2014 | The Feminist Wire
A Review of A Penny Saved by Sarah Mantilla Griffin
December 2013 | Women’s Quarterly Conversation
profiles in poetics: Arisa White
December 2012 | Mercury News
Oakland poet explores family in debut collection
November 2012 | The Narrator
Poetry Review: Arisa White’s A Penny Saved: A Poetic Narrative of Domestic Abuse
June 2012 | AfterEllen.com
Across the Page: Meredith Maran, Linda Hirshman, Arisa White
April 2012 | Savvy Verse & Wit
Interview with poet Arisa White
April 2012 | Savvy Verse & Wit
A Review of Hurrah’s Nest by Serena Augusto-Cox
April 2012 | Switchback
Syntax as Music in Arisa White’s Hurrah’s Nest