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:
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!
Date: November 9, 2021
“As an adoptee, one of the toughest things is the idea of shifting identities,” writes Jan Beatty in “American Bastard: A Memoir.”” “No one is who they say they are: […]
FROM THE CAVES by Thea Prieto reviewed in Diagram 21.5!
Date: November 2, 2021
Being an elder millennial (see: I refuse to use the term ‘geriatric’), I’ve come to accept that I no longer know any of the cool lingo that the kids these […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in On the Seawall!
Date: November 2, 2021
Any baby, let alone a bastard baby, is born a mystery, and babies don’t come with directions. But Jan Beatty’s iconoclastic memoir American Bastard does come with directions. Here is […]
Marie Tozier’s poetry book OPEN THE DARK featured in a review for First Alaskans!
Date: October 20, 2021
The strong, measured, and contemplative voice in Open the Dark, a debut collection of forty-two lyric poems, belongs to poet Marie Tozier (Inupiaq/Puerto Rican.) The book’s release in August 2020, at the […]
Enchanted Prose Reviews WEATHER WOMAN And SINKING ISLANDS By Cai Emmons!
Date: October 20, 2021
Cai Emmons is an extraordinary wordsmith who’s created a two-book series on the magical powers of personal relationships and their interconnected relationships with Nature, and how individuals and groups have […]
Dariel Suarez’s THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE is Featured on Los Angeles Review of Books
Date: September 27, 2021
American’s fascination with the mystery and allure of an island that for years they couldn’t access has led them to mythologize Cuba’s history. Those myths of a land stuck in […]
Check out the review of Cai Emmons’s SINKING ISLANDS by Thoughts on This ‘n That
Date: September 22, 2021
In Cai Emmons’ popular novel, WEATHER WOMAN, Bronwyn Artair drops out of her prestigious doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT to take a job as a television meteorologist in […]
THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS By Jim Peterson Reviewed By Publishers Weekly
Date: September 20, 2021
Peterson (Paper Crown) suffuses this enchanting if opaque collection with references to television and literature. Click here to read more
A Review of Sebastian Matthews’ BEYOND REPAIR featured on Brevity!
Date: September 13, 2021
At a writers’ gathering several years ago I had picked up a few basic details of the horrific, head-on, near-fatal automobile crash endured by Sebastian Matthews, his wife, and their […]
Aimee Liu’s GLORIOUS BOY Review on La Croix!
Date: September 8, 2021
Translated from French: The desperate quest of a Western couple to find their 4-year-old son, who disappeared in 1942 in the heart of the Indian archipelago of Andaman.