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INTERVIEWS
Elise was interviewed on “People on the River” which aired in August 2025
Elise Paschen on Blood Wolf Moon: An Interview, with Kate Millar, Poets House, April 30, 2025
“Celebrating Native poetry” interview on Native America Calling, April 18, 2025
‘Kitihawa Speaks’ in “Blood Wolf Moon” interview and reading on WBEZ, March 12, 2025
Classic Chicago Magazine, “Elise Paschen and Killers of the Flower Moon,” December 2023
The Massachusetts Review’s “The Gathering of Native Voices,” December 2021
Elise Paschen: Off The Bricks Poetry Podcast, November 18, 2021
Indian Country Today: Interview and reading of “The Tree Agreement,” April 20, 2021”
video begins at 16:25
“Poet-A-Day: Meet Elise Paschen, April 15, 2021
The Nightlife, Book of the Month on Native America Calling
Can’t Find Time to Read? Poetry Might Make the Perfect Gift
Harvard Alumni Spotlight: Elise Paschen’s “The Nightlife”
Elise Paschen: poetry for teens caters to the rebel in each of us
Chicago Close Up: Elise Paschen, ABC News, March 12, 2009
NPR interview on Poetry Speaks to Children
Valparaiso Poetry Review Interview
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
Osage Poet Elise Paschen returns home to celebrate ‘Blood Wolf Moon’, Osage News, May 18, 2025
12 Must-Read Books of April 2025 – Chicago Review of Books
Osage News reviews BLOOD WOLF MOON by Elise Paschen
Language for Throat and Tongue: Elise Paschen’s “Blood Wolf Moon” on Merion West, March 2, 2025
“The Nightlife” is Number Two on Oklahoma and Publishers Weekly Bestsellers List, July 23, 2017
“The Nightlife” shortlisted for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Awards
Shelf-Awareness Review of “The Nightlife”
Booklist Review of “The Nightlife”
Kenyon Review Micro-Review of “The Nightlife”
The Self Misshapen at Night: Review of “The Nightlife”
Savvy Verse and Wit Review of “The Nightlife”
Classic Chicago Review of “The Nightlife”
Webcast of Elise Paschen reading at the Library of Congress
POEMS & READINGS ONLINE
Poem-a-Day, November 10, 2025 – “Aperture”
The Osage Nation created a reel about the launch of “Blood Wolf Moon” in Oklahoma. Watch it here.
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, November 2024 – “𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟/Wahzhazhe/Osage”
Elise Paschen offers land acknowledgment and poetry reading before Jericho Brown’s keynote address at AWP in Kansas City on February 8th, 2024. Click the image below to watch the video.
Reading at the Osage Nation Sesquicentennial on October 22, 2022, in Pawhuska, OK.
Reading at the inaugural retreat of Indigenous Nations Poets at the Library of Congress, April 29, 2022 – watch on Facebook
2022 Native American Heritage Month Feature: Elise Paschen – watch on YouTube
The poems “𐓨𐓘́ ͘𐓺𐓟 𐓱𐓘́𐓱𐓘𐓺𐓟/Máze Htáhtaze/Typewriter” and “𐓷𐓘𐓧𐓟́𐓺𐓟/Waléze/Stationery” appear in Poetry, July/August 2022.
Elise Paschen reading her poem, “Wi’-gi-e,” at the American Writers Festival on May 15, 2022.
Video of the 8th Annual Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Fund for Poetry featuring Elise Paschen, December 8, 2021
Osage Nation Creativity: Elise Paschen collaboration with Keli Mashburn
Video poem of Elise Paschen’s “Swan Queen,” December 5, 2020
Listen to & read “Moss in April” by Elise Paschen on Rewilding Earth, May 22, 2020
“Social Distancing” by Elise Paschen on Black Earth Institute, Poem a Day, April 14, 2020
LINKS
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