Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Atop the Earth’s mantle, rock moving: Continents are milk skin floating on cocoa. A restless interior sweeps them along. In trenches minerals decay— at the core landmasses digest themselves. The crust does not movein one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Library Journal features Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Felicia Zamora’s Body of Render.
Date: June 2, 2020
Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet Tess Taylor for a hike on a steep hill near her home. It was one […]
Date: June 2, 2020
EL CERRITO — Local poet Tess Taylor has recently released her fourth book, had one of its poems published in the New York Times and wrote an opinion piece for […]
Date: June 2, 2020
In a series, various writers share what have they been reading while sheltering in place. Today, NPR poetry reviewer Tess Taylor lists what is helping her to get through.
Date: March 16, 2012
Cult. Bomb author Danielle Mitchell recently blogged this about Calamity Joe, Brendan Constantine's newest collection of poems from Red Hen Press: "Here there is wonder, earth, humor, rancid, lameness, shimmer, […]
Date: March 14, 2012
Shelf Awareness' Tom Lavoie has this to say about Ron Carlson's Room Service: "The poems and prose pieces in Room Service are thoughtful, witty, sad and hopeful–rarely angry or mad. […]
Date: March 7, 2012
In a recent Catholic Books Review article, Arthur J. Kubick had this to say about Imagine No Religion: The Autobiography of Blase Bonpane – "This fascinating autobiography takes the reader […]
Date: February 27, 2012
“Dungy captures the human heart and soul in her characters while illustrating the rawness of their suffering with gracefully blatant and rebellious passion.” – Phati'tude Literary Magazine The full text […]
Date: February 27, 2012
In Strong Verse, G.M. Palmer says this about Among the Goddesses- "Like any poet of worth, Finch produces beautiful lines, by themselves worth the price of admission.” For the full […]
Date: February 27, 2012
In the recent Valparaiso Poetry Review, Paul David Adkins had this to say about Tongue- "Within this hard-fought, inspiring collection, Flynn masterfully couples the lyric and narrative to create a […]
Date: February 27, 2012
Lee Polevoi of the Los Angeles Review of Books says that, "Bin Laden's Bald Spot encompasses worlds of absurdity and quotidian reality in the voices of ordinary citizens. Underneath the […]
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Connecticut River Review, Emilia Phillips says that "Brewer's intentions in Give Over, Graymalkin waver between reverence and ravaging, and the tension between the two creates an energy that […]
Date: February 16, 2012
In the Asheville Poetry Review, Patrick Bizzaro had this to say about Gaylord Brewer's Give Over, Graymalkin- "As poetry, Brewer's work avoids sentimentality and instead reveals the inner workings of […]
Date: February 13, 2012
Recently, James A. Cox of The Midwest Book Review had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan – "In the ice house is a core addition to any modern poetry collection." […]
