Marivi Soliven, author of TAXI DANCER, interviewed on Tesoro Poets’ Network
Date: September 14, 2026
News & Reviews
News:
Jason Schneiderman wins 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism!
Date: September 10, 2026
Huge congratulations to Jason Schneiderman on this prestigious honor, alongside fellow 2026 Pegasus Awards recipients Robert Pinsky, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nikki Grimes, and Meg Day!
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Hannah Means Shannon from Americana Highways
Date: September 10, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is releasing a collection of poems called The Cardinals on September 1st, 2026, along with an accompanying single, “Days of Letting Go,” out September 4th, […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Michael Lello for Highway 81 Revisited
Date: September 8, 2026
Amy Speace’s senior university lecture was a discussion on whether Bob Dylan is a poet or a songwriter. Now, Speace is living that dichotomy, as she releases a book of […]
Marivi Soliven, author of Taxi Dancer, connects with Tara Lundmark virtually
Date: September 3, 2026
Tara: So Marivi, I would love to hear your Meet Cue for Taxi Dancer. When, where, and how did inspiration first strike? Marivi: When we first moved to San Diego in 2001, […]
Molly Fisk, author of WALKING WHEEL, featured in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly (OGQ)
Date: September 1, 2026
BRIDE She wakes and dresses quickly in the dark,buttoning her bodice one-handed,her other palm smoothing back the sheetagainst its linen companion, a pillowcaseetched around with her smallest stitches,both newly released […]
Kristen Millares Young, author of DESIRE LINES, interviewed by Selena Mercuri of Havana Times
Date: August 18, 2026
Young spoke with Havana Times about the silences that shaped her family, the maternal power she discovered through the ancient goddess Cybele, the politics of writing about the female body, and the […]
Alan Chazaro, author of These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us interviewed by Stephanie Zhang from Mānoa Journal
Date: August 13, 2026
Date: August 8,2026 In July, 2026, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alan Chazaro about his latest poetry collection, These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us. Our conversation took us from the […]
Amy Speace, author of THE CARDINALS, interviewed by Matt Conner from Analogue
Date: August 11, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Public Books lists Laura Kasischke’s latest novel, THE LIFEGUARD!
Date: August 4, 2026
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? […]
Reviews:
Starred review given to Nicole Stellon’s book EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY!
Date: August 23, 2021
In her inviting third poetry collection, Everything Never Comes Your Way, Nicole Stellon O’Donnell (You Are No Longer in Trouble) muses on the struggles and transcendence of “family-tethered Alaska life.” The […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner gets reviewed by Foreword!
Date: August 19, 2021
A chance encounter changes the trajectory of two lives in Jaye Viner’s novel Jane of Battery Park. Eight years ago, Jane and Daniel met and connected in Battery Park. She saw […]
JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Jaye Viner reviewed in the Midwest Book Review!
Date: August 11, 2021
Read the glowing review here!
Dexter L. Booth’s ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE was featured on 10 Can’t Miss New Books!
Date: July 21, 2021
Check out the full list here!
FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Publishers Weekly!
Date: July 19, 2021
In Prieto’s trenchant debut, the survivors of an apocalypse navigate a scorched land full of desolation and desperation. Among the enigmatic cast is Mark, a bossy young man; Tie, a […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez has an appearance in The Massachusetts Review!
Date: July 14, 2021
In his debut novel, Dariel Suarez takes the reader into the heart of Cuba, of Havana, of the people of the island. As a Cuban American, I notice how the […]
ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE by Dexter L. Booth reviewed by Poetry Foundation!
Date: July 14, 2021
Most of the poems in Dexter L. Booth’s second collection, Abracadabra, Sunshine, are addressed to old lovers, friends, and family, and seek understanding amid the emotional complexities of adult life. Booth […]
Raving Review of JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Publishers Weekly!
Date: July 8, 2021
“In Viner’s exquisite debut, a Southern California woman raised in a cult struggles to reconnect with a lost love amid a dystopian society…With a wholly original and eerily suspenseful story, […]
BODY OF RENDER by Felicia Zamora reviewed in Booklist!
Date: July 7, 2021
There is a jagged urgency to award-winning and CantoMundo Fellow Zamor’s sixth book. The opening section, “At the Hand of Other,” consists of 30 one-stanza poems that each lean toward memory and immediacy while the poet […]
Carl Marcum’s A CAMERA OBSCURA reviewed in New York Journal of Books!
Date: July 7, 2021
A Camera Obscura stands at the crossroads of many such conversations: one could talk about the close, careful pacing of Mr. Marcum’s prose, a storytelling manner that often feels akin to […]