PSA: Francisco Aragón “1985”
Date: June 4, 2020
1985 Long and black, the streaksof gray, aflutter in the lightwind as she prepares to tell her story at the Federal Building:reaching into a tattered sackshe pulls out a doll […]
News & Reviews
News:
Chapter 16: The Skin of Meaning excerpt
Date: June 4, 2020
The Skin of Meaning He was late to the party and without directions,though his invitation was secure, and his instinctskeenly honed to an acceptable edge, and as we arewaiting to […]
Daily Poetry: Ascension
Date: June 4, 2020
Ascension Didi Jackson The blue jays lay claimto the raspberry busharriving in groups of four or five:one holds a rubied berry in its beakand feeds it up in the white […]
Lithub: ‘Almost Animal’ A Poem by Didi Jackson
Date: June 4, 2020
after Käthe Kollwitz I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut.At the morgue, I busied myself countingthe lacerations on my husband’s neck and wrists.I wore sunglasses and […]
VPR: ‘Between Abject Fear And Inexplicable Optimism’: Vt. Poets On The Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Major Jackson: I’m fluctuating between abject fear and inexplicable optimism. Mitch Wertlieb: That’s poet Major Jackson, who lives in South Burlington. And you may have heard a bit of laughter […]
Mary Odden’s Blog
Date: June 4, 2020
https://www.maryodden.com/neighborsblog
Lithub: Finding My Story in the Colonial Past of the Andaman Islands
Date: June 3, 2020
My new novel Glorious Boy began with a dream. On a tropical island during an emergency evacuation, a young girl was hiding in a dense rainforest with a small, mute white boy […]
Caroline Leavitt’s Blog Interview with Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Aimee Liu talks about GLORIOUS BOY, the excruciating process of writing, creating a memorable silent character, her shapeshifter dad, and so much more.
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Date: June 3, 2020
Some 30 years ago, an established nonfiction writer and a screenwriter decided to write their first novels. They met in a fiction writing class, and have been friends ever since, […]
NY Times: Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out
Date: June 3, 2020
Featured mentioning of Percival Everett’s Colonel Hap Thompson!
Reviews:
Kristen Millares Young’s DESIRE LINES reviewed by Publishers Weekly!
Date: October 20, 2026
In this lyrical memoir-in-essays, novelist Young (Subduction) considers matrilineal legacy, the trauma inflicted upon feminine bodies, and what it means to be a woman. As a child in Florida with […]
Marivi Soliven’s TAXI DANCER reviewed by Titchie Carandang of Positively Filipino!
Date: October 19, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Marivi Soliven’s TAXI DANCER reviewed by Christopher Connor of A Few More Words!
Date: October 19, 2026
A delightful aspect of historical fiction is the way the present gives way to the past, shifting our knowledge of the modern world into what it once was. In Marivi […]
Helen Benedict’s THE SOLDIER’S HOUSE reviewed by America Magazine!
Date: October 19, 2026
In 2003, the United States attacked Iraq, ostensibly to rid the country of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The war destabilized the Middle East and resulted in Hussein’s death […]
In The Review Spotlight: Audrey Shipp of Hippocampus Magazine on Desire Lines: A Memoir by Kristen Millares Young
Date: October 15, 2026
In Desire Lines (Red Hen Press; Oct 2026), a memoir-in-essays, Cuban American novelist, journalist, and essayist Kristen Millares Young delivers a series of confessions, one being how her life story […]
Positively Filipino publishes an intense review of Marivi Soliven’s Taxi Dancer!
Date: October 7, 2026
Marivi Soliven’s latest novel is a love story inspired by a 1935 murder case that took place in San Diego’s red-light district known as the Stingaree. In Taxi Dancer, we […]
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD reviewed by Rain Taxi!
Date: October 1, 2026
Florencia Ramirez’s THE KITCHEN ACTIVIST reviewed by Publishers Weekly!
Date: October 1, 2026
In this hands-on manifesto, Ramirez, host of The Kitchen Activist podcast and author of Eat Less Water, encourages readers to prepare meals in ways that lower food waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Explaining that […]
Brendan Constantine’s THE OPPOSITES GAME reviewed by G Emil Reutter of North of Oxford!
Date: October 1, 2026
The journey into The Opposites Game enters the sometime surreal, sometime witty, sometime irreverent world of Brendan Constantine. All is not joy as the dark lays just under the thinly veiled poems […]
David Mason reviewed by Brian Brodeur of New Verse Review!
Date: September 28, 2026
Mason’s achievements in verse narratives surpass those of other Expansive Poets, spanning multiple subgenres. His best early short-stories in verse are the tetrameter poems “Gusev” and “The Next Place” and […]