Press
Reviews of Trace Evidence:
Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Library Journal (Starred Review)
Review in Bookpage's 5 Collections that show poetry is always the answer
Review in Los Angeles Review of Books
Interviews:
'enjambments' for the Academy of American Poets
Between the Covers with David Naimon (Podcast)
The Paris Review: “The Action of Love” by Morgan Parker
Electronic Lit: “Truth Not as a Set of Answers, but a Field of Openings” by Chen Chen
“Switzerland in Irish Poetics,” Swiss Center for Irish Studies, Zurich James Joyce Foundation, University of Zürich, 2020.
September/October 2019 issue (cover feature), American Poetry Review, 2019.
Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbies, and Bodies, The Paris Review, 2019.
Essential Books of Poetry for Black History Month, selected by Jesmyn Ward for Goodreads, 2018.
“State Lines: Charif Shanahan’s ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2018.
Best Poetry Books of 2017, Chicago Review of Books, 2017.
“What does it mean to be multiracial in America?”, PBS NewsHour, 2017
“‘Tell Me I Belong Here: On Charif Shanahan’s Into Each Room…’,” Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), 2017.
“Free Is Not a Negro Doused in White: Charif Shanahan’s Into Each Room…,” Center for African American Poetry & Poetics, 2017.
“Publishers Weekly, Starred Review,” Publishers Weekly, 2017.
“Charif Shanahan, Poetry Society of America,” Late Night Library, 2014.
“Writing in Safety, We Don’t Have to Hide,” MFA Day Job, 2013.
“The City and the Writer: In Zürich with Charif Shanahan,” Words without Borders, 2012.