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PROFILES
  • Author Profile in Poetry Foundation
  • "Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello's Favorite Comfort Food: Rocky Road Cookies" on Hyphen (15 June 2020)
  • "Miss Manhattan Hangs Out With Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Miss Manhattan Hangs Out​ (January 3, 2018)
  • "Adopted Korean Authors Read for a Global Audience" on Poets & Writers blog (November 27, 2017)
  • "Student Spotlight: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on 24PearlStreet: Sidewalk Talk (April 29, 2017)
  • "CMU English Celebrates National Poetry Month, 2017" on Carnegie Mellon University English Department website (April 17, 2017)
  • "Contemporary Thinkers: A Poet Among Us" in Venice Magazine (Spring 2017)
  • "While they were writing, two poets found love" on FIU News (February 14, 2017)
  • "Korean American Feminist Poetry" on Best American Poetry blog (November 15, 2015)
  • Saturday Poetry Series Presents: Marci Calabretta on As It Ought To Be (February 7, 2015)
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INTERVEWS
  • "Resistance and Reclamation: Three Poets Revise the Narrative of Transracial, Transnational Adoption" on Poets & Writers (Nov/Dec 2021)
  • "Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence" on Catapult (9 August, 2021)
  • "So That We May Move Forward: A Conversation with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on The Rumpus (13 November, 2020) 
  • "Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello on The Magical Language of Others by E. J. Koh" on Best Book Ever Podcast (2 November, 2020)
  • "What Anti-Racism Really Means — and How to Be Anti-Racist" on Good Housekeeping (6 July, 2020)
  • "Interview with a Poet: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on South Florida Poetry Journal (September 7, 2019)
  • "10 Questions for Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Massachusetts Review (March 15, 2019)
  • "Interview with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Speaking of Marvels (June 4, 2018)
  • "Author Focus: Best Small Fictions contributors" on Flash Frontier ​(November 29, 2017)
  • "Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (October 17, 2017)
  • "Interview: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: Hour of the Ox" on Sliver of Stone (April 1, 2017)
  • "Interview with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Devil's Lake  (March 16, 2017)
  • "Interview - Poet Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Catch & Release, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art website (October 20, 2015)
  • "The Writing Life: Marci Calabretta" interview with Geoffrey Philp (January 13, 2014)

REVIEWS
  • "The Places Bodies Can't Reach: The South Korean Poet Yi Won blurs the boundaries between the virtual and the real" on Poetry Foundation (August 16, 2021)
  • "Review of Hour of the Ox by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Tinderbox Poetry Journal Vol. 5, Issue 3 (Fall 2018)
  • "Review of Hour of the Ox by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello" on Lynn Domina's "Review a Week" blog (August 21, 2018)
  • "Add These 10 Books to Your Summer Reading List" on Kore Asian Media (April 4, 2017)
  • "National Poetry Month Book Reviews: David Starkey Reviews 30 Works of Poetry" on Santa Barbara Independent (March 30, 2017)
  • "Recommended Reading: 2016" by Glass: A Journal of Poetry (December 29, 2016)
  • "Review: Hour of the Ox" on Booklist Online (December 2, 2016)

NEWS
  • National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2022 Creative Writing Fellowships (11 January, 2022)
  • "Three Distinguished Alumni Honored" on Tompkins Cortland Community College News (14 June, 2021)
  • "PEN America Launches Miami/South Florida Chapter" on PEN America (April 5, 2021)
  • "In honor of National Poetry Month, meet some of FIU's emerging poets" on FIU News (April 26, 2018)
  • "Announcing the 2017 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorships" on American Literary Translators Association blog (August 16, 2017)
  • "A Review of Best Small Fictions 2017" on Entropy Magazine's "Enclave" blog (August 13, 2017)
  • "Review: The Best Small Fictions of 2017" on The Memory of Fire blog (July 26, 2017)
  • "2017 Best Small Fictions Winners" on Braddock Avenue Books website (March 22, 2017)
  • "Author to Discuss Poetry Collection with Students" on Miami Dade College's The Reporter (February 24, 2017)
  • "What are the best books about Florida? Awards name top choices" on Miami Herald (February 22, 2017)
  • "Asian-American poetics and politics in the South: Self-articulation and solidarity" on Asian American Press (February 20, 2017)
  • "2016 Florida Book Awards Announced" on The Florida Book Awards website (February 18, 2017)
  • "FIU's Creative Writing Making a Big Splash at This Year's Book Fair" on Florida International University website (November 16, 2016)
  • "Poems and Poetry at 33rd Miami Book Fair" on Artburst Blog (November 8, 2016)
  • "MDC's Miami Book Fair Welcomes World's Top Poets" on MDC News (November 3, 2016)
  • "South Florida Poets to be Showcased at upcoming 2016 Miami Book Fair" on Miami Herald  (October 13, 2016)
  • "Alumnae poets publish new books" on FIU Alumni Association (May 8, 2016)
  • "Alumnae poets publish new books" on FIU News (April 27, 2016)
  • "Bread, Hunger: All Things That Rise..." on Poetry Slowdown (September 6, 2015)
  • "Best New Poets 2015: Our Final 50" on Best New Poets blog (August 20, 2015)
  • "English Alumna Wins Major Poetry Prize" on Carnegie Mellon University website (July 15, 2015)
  • "Winners of the 2015 AWP Award Series" on Association of Writers & Writing Programs website (July 13, 2015)
  • "Our 2013 Contest Winners!" named a finalist for "Bonsai" on Puerto Del Sol blog (May 8, 2013)
  • "The President's Poet Came From The Paradise of Poetry: South Florida" on WLRN website (January 23, 2013)
  • "Marci Calabretta's Debut Chapbook Published by Finishing Line Press" on Florida International University MFA Program blog (April 15, 2013)
  • "Knight Fellows in the news" on Knight Foundation blog (April 15, 2013)
  • "Knight Fellows give back to South Florida through the arts" on FIU News (April 5, 2013)
  • "Book Fair One-Liners" on WLRN website (November 17, 2012)
  • "Mother Ran Off the American Base in South Korea" on Carnegie Mellon University website (April 7, 2011)


Media

"Postmarked from Hydropolis"  |  Academy of American Poets Prize  |  Florida International University Student Literary Awards, 2012
"Mother Ran Off the American Base in South Korea"   |  The Albion Review Poetry Prize, 2011
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