Date: January 8, 2024
“When I hear my American friends say that ‘there’s no worst place to be for a queer person today than Florida,’ I have to take a deep breath … Why […]
Date: January 8, 2024
“Redmond City Council appointed Ching-In Chen as Redmond’s new poet laureate for 2024-25. Chen was selected through a robust process that included applying to an open call, a selection panel […]
Date: January 2, 2024
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Date: January 2, 2024
Handpicked by our expert librarians and staff, the poetry books in this list, all published in 2022, include debut collections and new classics from established poets. Click here to read […]
Date: January 2, 2024
David “Mas” Matsumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach, Harvest Son, Changing Season, has yet another true story to share, this time a family secret so unspeakable that it remained buried for over […]
Date: January 2, 2024
A farmer and author in the small Fresno County community of Del Rey is sharing a personal story with a universal message. Mas Masumoto published a book in the spring […]
Date: January 2, 2024
Join a Denver Public Library reader’s advisor extraordinaire for a flash book buzz featuring hot new and forthcoming titles that you just have to know about! Give us 15 minutes, […]
Date: January 2, 2024
A local author and Creative Writing professor at Fresno State is sharing her family history through poetry and written word. Click here to read more.
Date: January 2, 2024
Books change lives when they are read wholeheartedly and must be shared. This collection covers everything from L.A. noir to sci-fi to identity and poetry. Read, gift, and get inspired. […]
Date: December 12, 2023
BOMB looks back at the books from small and independent presses we featured in 2023 and helps you pair them with the idiosyncratic readers in your life. We’re grateful to […]
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]
