Local News Pasadena interviews David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS
Date: February 10, 2025
“A Promise of Peaches” Many Japanese Americans advocate for human rights. There’s a reason.
News & Reviews
News:
April Ossmann featured in video, “Our Voices, Bodies Rising”.
Date: February 6, 2025
This original and unique pandemic film created by local Vermont artists and performers, marks the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in dance and poetry, and is dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader […]
April Ossmann featured in NON-PARTISAN / TUNNEL BROOK, collaborated by Aaron Marcus, and Sam Sanders
Date: February 6, 2025
Every April in Montpelier, visitors can be found staring intently at store windows, to which are affixed hundreds of poems by local authors. This is how we gratefully stumbled on […]
The Australian features David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: February 6, 2025
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
KCBX features Yang Huang, author of OASIS
Date: February 4, 2025
Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to […]
International Armenian Literary Alliance chooses Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD in its Literary Lights series
Date: February 4, 2025
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is part of this year’s Literary Lights series by the International Armenian Literary Alliance.
The New York Times spotlights Maria Tallchief, mother of BLOOD WOLF MOON author Elise Paschen
Date: February 4, 2025
The New York Times honors Native American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief and features lines from her daughter, poet Elise Paschen.
VOA Africa podcast features Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: February 3, 2025
Ghanaian American writer Esinam Bediako discusses her new novel, Blood on the Brain, a tale that follows Akosua, a young woman recovering from a concussion.
The Georgia Review features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
The Georgia Review features the essay “Mobius: A Meditation on Art and Science” by Alison Hawthorne Deming in its Winter 2024 issue.
Prairie Schooner features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
Prairie Schooner features Alison Hawthorne Deming’s essay “The Eye of Water” in its recent issue.
Reviews:
THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT Receives Glowing Review by Mom Egg Review!
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed In Gay City News!
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE gets rave review in Southern Review of Books!
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Southern Review of Books features Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE!
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed on NY Journal of Books!
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
LARB Reviews Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE!
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Life Elsewhere
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
URSULA LAKE gets shout out in Poet Runner podcast!
Date: May 24, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed by The Washington Post!
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
PLAINCHANT reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: May 17, 2022