Marivi Soliven, author of TAXI DANCER, interviewed on Tesoro Poets’ Network
Date: September 14, 2026
Date: September 14, 2026
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!
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
Date: April 21, 2021
Read the full review of Dariel Suarez upcoming novel here!
Date: April 14, 2021
Synopsis: In 2011, the family of Sebastian Matthews was in a major car accident. They were hit head-on by a man in the throes of a heart attack. It took […]
Date: April 14, 2021
Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat, published in April 2021 by Red Hen Press, is poet Khalisa Rae’s debut collection, following her 2012 chapbook, Real Girls Have Real Problems. Rae […]
Date: April 12, 2021
Alaskan Inupiaq poet Marie Tozier’s new collection Open the Dark challenges—but also aligns with—western notions of linear time. Early on, the collection announces a cyclic, wheeling view of time as it unfolds […]
Date: April 12, 2021
Nikki Moustaki’s debut collection of poetry captures this divide and dissociation while establishing themes of darkness and light within the difficult narratives of suffering and abuse. These poems juxtapose the […]
Date: April 12, 2021
Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat is like a newborn scream that’s been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a […]
Date: April 1, 2021
Guest Post by Lannie Stabile. A Black girl can be a dog, a rat, a gadget, a myth, a ghost, a mermaid, origami, or livestock. A Black girl can be […]
Date: March 24, 2021
“Funny, spooky, sad, and yet hopeful, Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY is at times a family drama, a ghost story, a commentary on race relations, an intense flirtation, and a love […]
Date: March 18, 2021
In a decade of reading and writing about motherhood poetry—including an essay-review in these pages in 2019—I have found no universal truths about motherhood. However, as I’ve worked with poet […]
Date: March 17, 2021
Bawdy and tragic, Taipei in Taiwan is not New York City. There is more Confucian shame than Taoist ecstasy. In these tales of love, lust and relationships gone awry, Yun-Han […]