Date: January 20, 2026
Kristen Millares Young will take readers along on her journey of discovery as she publishes her debut memoir this year. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the acclaimed novelist, […]
Date: January 13, 2026
We: A collection of poetry reflecting coming together across differences We love the new friends and colleagues we are meeting on the journey of our book, Beyond the Politics of Contempt. […]
Date: January 13, 2026
Brattleboro Indivisible hosts What Does Democracy Look Like? at the Latchis Theater. The event celebrates democracy through art, music, poetry and discussion. On exhibit will be work by local artists […]
Date: January 13, 2026
The Feminist Know-It-All: You know her. You can’t stand her. Good thing she’s not here! Instead, this column by gender and women’s studies librarian Karla Strand will amplify stories of […]
Date: January 6, 2026
I don’t know what I expected to find when I went to check out the Tournament of Books shortlist, but I was delighted by the selection of books. We’ve got […]
Date: January 6, 2026
I’m not a big fan of these “best of” lists (I didn’t watch, listen or read everything out there), but of all the new(ish) arts entertainment (or edutainment, as KRS-One would […]
Date: January 6, 2026
Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers.The guest: In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, […]
Date: December 16, 2025
Coming March 6, 2026: the 22nd installment of the Tournament of Books. …Here’s how the Tournament works. Each weekday, starting March 6, two books from the shortlist are read and […]
Date: December 9, 2025
Short Story Collection. Each of these fourteen stories pulses with a rhythm—jazzy or contemplative, staccato or silky, intricate or straightforward—that matches the histories, desires, even the geographies of the characters.
Date: December 3, 2025
Poet April Ossmann on changing perceptions to heal relationships. In this episode, we talk with April Ossmann, poet and independent editor, and author of WE… a collection of poems focused […]
Date: May 30, 2012
Red Hen Press, a small nonprofit press in Los Angeles, continues to expand its poetry list with the publication of Diane Wald’s first full-length collection. (Wald’s chapbook publications include My […]
Date: May 30, 2012
"Bradfield [has a] keen eye for intertwining the narrative of the natural world and her human narrative. This is what is breathtaking about Interpretive Work… here are the poems of […]
Date: May 29, 2012
This first full-length collection by Lisa Russ Spear is a mature work, wrought with honed skill and diligent truth telling. Glass Town appropriately begins with “Scenes from Childhood,” a cycle […]
Date: May 29, 2012
Emerson argued that one’s body belongs to the Not me rather than the Me, and Whitman countered that our identities derive from our bodies. These opposing views define the two […]
Date: May 29, 2012
A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a Korean American writer living in two worlds — her native Korea, her contemporary America. Neither and both are quite home […]
Date: May 29, 2012
Maurya Simon’s sixth collection of poems, the visionary Ghost Orchid, begins, like Dante’s Commedia, in the middle of life, where we always are. The first section’s title poem, “Between Heaven […]
Date: May 29, 2012
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In a review in San Diego City Beat, Jim Ruland had this to say about Robert Roberge's Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of My Life – "Slick, brutal and […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In her review in Gently Read Literature, Margaret Rozga had this to say about Peggy Shumaker's Gnawed Bones – "There is so much more careful observation, music, meditation, and clear, […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In a recent review, Library Journal had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus – "This charming memoir, Barth's first book, is an exemplary coming-out […]
