The Swamp
Date: June 4, 2020
It is Fourth of July weekend, and until a few days earlier, we had forgotten that for coastal towns this is prime time for tourism. Despite the busy sidewalks and […]
News & Reviews
News:
C-Ville: Taking covers: Your social distancing reading list
Date: June 4, 2020
With the cancellation of the Virginia Festival of the Book, and recommendations to practice social distancing, there’s never been a better time to pick up some extra reading material. While […]
The Oregonian: Poems for the Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Kim Stafford’s days have a rhythm, a routine. Oregon’s poet laureate wakes before dawn. He takes a long walk around his neighborhood. When he returns to his home in Southwest Portland, […]
KUER 90.1: To Be Alive — Is Power: Poetry For The Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
With all that’s going on right now, it may be more important than ever to remember to take a beat and appreciate something beautiful — even if that’s just a […]
Ms. Magazine: A Word Person Thinks About Bodies
Date: June 4, 2020
It was recently brought to my attention that my characters are obsessed with bodies—their own and everyone else’s.
CBC: Milton’s Paradise Lost: a survival guide for a fractured world
Date: June 4, 2020
Vietnamese-American writer Andrew Lam considers Paradise Lost “the first refugee story.” “When I learned about it, as someone who had lost his homeland, it resonated, naturally, because Vietnam was everything to my […]
Black Earth Institue: Social Distancing
Date: June 4, 2020
In dreams I walk through crowds, brushing arms, knocking elbows. Skin to skin: hands are bare. Crocuses congregate in beds, along sidewalks. Unlatching city gates,
Poets.org: Aerial, Wild Pine
Date: June 4, 2020
A flare of russet,green fronds, surpriseof flush againstthe bare grey cypressin winter woods. Cardinal wild pine,quill-leaf airplantor dog-drink-water.Spikes of bright bloom–exotic plumage.
Arts At MIT: A Writer’s Voyage: Mia Heavener, MIT Course 1, 2000
Date: June 4, 2020
“Be stubborn and ultimately believe in your writing,” advises first-time novelist Mia Heavener ’00, “especially if you are having crappy writing days.” On April 13, Heavener visited Wyn Kelley’s literature […]
Lithub: Writing Place in a Time of Crisis
Date: June 4, 2020
Tess Taylor’s new poetry collection Rift Zone is published this month. She shares five books about writing place in a time of crisis.
Reviews:
Southern Literary Review Praises Amy Pence’s YELLOW
Date: July 21, 2026
“Through lyrical writing, Pence creates a spellbinding, mesmerizing narrative.”
Hannah Soyer’s DREAMS IN WHICH I’M ALMOST HUMAN reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly!
Date: July 21, 2026
In this breathtaking autobiography, Soyer (The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet) examines how her life has been shaped by disability, medical trauma, and questions of personal autonomy.
Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK Praised By Colorado State Center For Literary Publishing
Date: July 9, 2026
“Like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz, Kill Dick can be read cyclically from beginning to end, back to beginning to end, and so on.”
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD Earns Praise In North of Oxford Review
Date: July 1, 2026
“The Lifeguard is more than its defining plot point, more diverse than a collective main character.”
North Of Oxford Praises MORNING LEAVES by Laing Rikkers
Date: July 1, 2026
“Rikkers opens her heart to the reader and expresses ways to deal with both life and grief. She is a skillful author with an honest and sincere voice.”
Military Families Magazine Names Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE To A List Of Best Summer Books
Date: June 30, 2026
The third novel in a connected trilogy written over more than a decade, “The Soldier’s House” follows an American veteran of the war in Iraq and his interpreter’s widow and child, […]
Chapter House Praises William Archila’s CANICULA
Date: June 29, 2026
“During this moment of madness and unmitigated cruelty, we need Archila’s words”
Heavy Feather Review Praises Vi Khi Nào & Lily Hoàng’s TIMBER & LUA
Date: June 25, 2026
I appreciate it when a book in some way replicates something I’ve experienced in real life in a way that no other book has, and this one replicates my experiences […]
Zara Rabb Reviews COLD FIRE by David Mason
Date: June 23, 2026
Cold Fire often draws skillfully on imagery from the various places Mason knows through his travels, and in the best poems, he writes from a deep comprehension of both our 21st century […]
Khanh Ha’s AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER Named in List Of Top Historical Fiction Picks
Date: June 23, 2026
“The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is definitely the most interesting.”