Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth
Date: June 30, 2020
When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]
News & Reviews
News:
GMR: Francisco Aragón on The Social Distance Reading Series
Date: June 30, 2020
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He’s the author of After Rubén, Glow of Our Sweat and Puerta del Sol, as well as editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He directs Letras […]
Literary North interviews Didi Jackson
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson is a terrific poet. She writes accessible poems that are packed with startling imagery, art, precise language, and delicate emotions. She manages to make the shocking and heart-breaking […]
Seven Days: Poet Didi Jackson on Grief, Recovery and New Book ‘Moon Jar’
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson‘s book of poetry, Moon Jar, was released on April 21 — the day before her 50th birthday and during a global pandemic. The book contains several years’ worth of […]
Sound and Valley News: Coffee Break with Mary Odden
Date: June 30, 2020
Alaskan author Mary Odden discusses her new book, Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, an essay compilation that form a memoir of life in the 49th state.
Author2Author with Aimee Liu
Date: June 30, 2020
Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her […]
The Booklist Reader: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Drinks With Tony: Episode #87 Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 30, 2020
Deborah A. Lott is the author of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me: A Tragicomic Memoir. She’s also the author of In Session: The Bond Between Women and Their Therapists.
Summer of the Cicadas: Local author Chelsea Catherine on the importance of queer literature
Date: June 30, 2020
There’s nothing quite like witness the emergence of cicadas from their 17-year slumber. Of course it’s rather the noise you won’t soon forget. My senior year of high school cicadas […]
Read Wilderness Excerpt: Subduction Chapter Seven
Date: June 30, 2020
The pacific frothed at the shore, its distant gray spreading into white foam and retreating, flattened by its own mass against the long curve of the horizon. The sea has neither mercy […]
Reviews:
New Letters’ thoughts on William Trowbridge’s Put This On, Please
Date: March 16, 2020
Shanan Ballam, writing for New Letters Magazine, gives high praise to William Trowbridge’s Put This On Please. “Trowbridge’s technical and emotional gifts create a bond of trust with readers, making us want […]
Jeannine M. Lesinski’s review on NewPages.com
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poem mingles aural and visual music: The caesurae [unable to be reproduced here] audibly create rhythm, while visually recalling the fragments of the fractal that are repeatedly broken down […]
Persephone by Lyn Lifshin on the Monsterrat Review
Date: March 16, 2020
To read Lyn Lifshin’s, Persephone, is to be energized by a flow of poems which catapult through the book’s 181 pages. Prophetically, none of her poems ends with a period […]
Sixty Sonnets Reviewed in Rattle Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Sixty Sonnets, Reviewed by Maryann Corbett One look at the cover of Sixty Sonnets lets you know you’re dealing with a poet who’s got both slyness and chutzpah—at least if poet Ernest […]
Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to Publisher’s Weekly for the review on BAD STORIES, which they call “A worthwhile foray into understanding and responding to the Trump era.”
The Poet of Wall Street
Date: March 16, 2020
Westechester Magazine writes about Jim Tilley, dubbed “The Poet of Wall Street,” and his new book of poetry, In Confidence, published by Red Hen Press.
FOREWORD praises EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Anna Call from Foreword for the great review of Florencia Ramirez’s EAT LESS WATER, calling it “a charming work that gets its point across beautifully.”
Literary Mama reviews Mary Evelyn Greene’s memoir When Rain Hurts” and praises a mother’s challenging journey through adoption
Date: March 16, 2020
“Greene has come through an extraordinary trial both at home and abroad advocating for Peter. She is clear-eyed about the fact that both of her Russian-born children face unusual challenges, […]
Wandering Spirit: ASU’s Cynthia Hogue is haunted and inspired by time spent in New Orleans” (Tucson Weekly)”
Date: March 16, 2020
In the lead-up to the 2011 Tucson Book Festival, Jarret Keene published this review of Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence–in the Tucson Weekly (10 March 2011).
Mary Jo Salter reviews About Face
Date: March 16, 2020