Date: April 15, 2025
In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in Lebanon’s Burj Al Barajneh refugee camp. That photo would go […]
Date: April 15, 2025
Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the author of four novels about post- genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was […]
Date: April 10, 2025
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas about her new position and the exciting plans she has in the works during […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Nancy Kricorian is featured in Thrive, the project of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA). In the piece, she reflects on her life philosophy and explores her connection to Armenian […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Two poems by William Archila from his collection Canícula/Dog Days, “Radio” and “Guayaberas,” along with their Spanish translations by Mario Zetino, are featured in the latest issue of the Los […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Pasadena Now reports on author Nancy Kricorian’s recent visit to St. Gregory A. & M. Hovsepian School, where she met with 8th-grade students to discuss her new novel, The Burning […]
Date: April 8, 2025
“I grew up in a two-family house in the Armenian enclave of East Watertown, Massachusetts. My parents, my sister, and I lived on the ground floor, and my grandmother and […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Lara Ehrlich’s upcoming novel, Bind Me Tighter Still—set to be released this September—is featured in Every Book a Doorway. The reviewer praises the book’s originality, writing that it contains ideas […]
Date: April 8, 2025
April Ossmann was recently interviewed by The Reporter, where she reflected on her literary journey and discussed how rising political tensions in the United States since 2015 have shaped the […]
Date: April 8, 2025
In Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, she explores the lingering ghosts of war after her husband suffers a heart attack and recounts dreams of his […]
Date: November 18, 2020
Reading Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s Every Atom, a book of poems about her aging mother, reminds me of my grandmother’s history. Like Gracie, Hollowell was her mother’s youngest, born when her […]
Date: November 4, 2020
There are some books that become more than just reads, rather reading them becomes an experience. That is just how I felt with “Summer of the Cicadas”.
Date: October 28, 2020
Before delving into her own experience, however, Risher introduces the topic of wealth by depicting the expectations, gratitude, and worries that come with striking it rich. But hers is not […]
Date: October 28, 2020
What captivated me most of all was how Lara Ehrlich writes her characters. The stories feature women at different stages of life or different situations, and yet they feel familiar. […]
Date: October 22, 2020
UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF by Mia C. Heavener, SUBDUCTION by Kristen Millares Young, and SUMMER OF THE CICADAS by Chelsea Catherine were all featured on the newsletter World Wide Work: Books, […]
Date: October 19, 2020
“The poems in Rift Zone exist in a moment before rupture, an overhang of historic land fractured by histories revised and erased. Taylor magnifies these tensions when she recalls the instabilities of […]
Date: October 12, 2020
“Poetry is Joshua Rivkin’s art, but he approaches it with the keen observational powers of a scientist. Children learn to model themselves after their parents, but will often closely watch […]
Date: October 11, 2020
“Perhaps the sheer amount of time devoted to the work is part of the magic. McClanahan’s essays were written in the 2000s, most in and around 9/11, when she and her husband decided […]
Date: October 11, 2020
These deceptively simple poems enlarge with repeated readings; they unfold greater meaning each time and leave a reader with much to contemplate about identity, cultures, generational wisdom, and values… Click […]
Date: October 10, 2020
The subtitle “A Memoir in Essays” suggests that this memoir will follow a nontraditional narrative, and its unexpected movements are part of the reward. The narrative rises and falls with […]
