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Featured Interview with Charif Shannahan for POETRY Magazine Podcast. Listen here.

LitHub’s Book Marks names Rise and Float one of “The Best Reviewed Books of Poetry - 2022”

In a review of Rise and Float for The Adroit Journal, James Ciano writes: “These poems have the baroque syntactical style of a late Levis, with the primal intensity of suffering one might find in the great poems of Franz Wright.”

Publishers Weekly calls Rise and Float a “powerful collection” and “finely wrought debut.”

Rise and Float reviewed in Colorado Review!

PSA's George Bogin Memorial Award, 2018:

“I admire the energetic drive in this set of poems. The language in these poems is hardened, vibrant, self-assured, rhythmic, and there is a careful consideration of sound, of alliteration, of syllabic configuration. . . . [W]hile writing about imperialism, race, citizenship, police violence, the removal of one's rights, labor or "the syntax of conscience,"  Tierney powerfully investigates how we relate to ourselves and our communities amid the traumas that are on display, and the traumas that leave gaps and absences in those dreams that cannot be saved.”

— Citation by Daniel Borzutzky (full announcement here)

“Conversations With Contributors: Brian Tierney” (The Adroit Journal)