Toucan Nest featured on Library Journal
Date: April 15, 2013
Libary Journal names Toucan Nest one of the "30 new books that will help you rediscover poetry". To read the full article, click
News & Reviews
News:
KSEE interviews Brynn Saito
Date: April 9, 2013
KSEE24 News features an interview with Brynn Saito. To watch the full interview, click
Eloise Klein Healy is Interviewed by Cynthia Fox on KLOS
Date: April 4, 2013
This past Sunday, Cynthia Fox spoke with Eloise for Spotlight on the Community on 95.5 KLOS. Eloise reads two poems and even divulges that she sidles up to people in […]
Hothouse Blog features an interview with Andrew Lam
Date: April 3, 2013
Karin C. Davidson from Hothouse Blog sat down to talk with Andrew Lam for a two-part interview. To read the first installment of this interview, click
Dan Vera chats with Gregg Shapiro from Out Smart Magazine
Date: April 1, 2013
Gregg Shapiro from Out Smart Magazine asks Dan Vera about the poets who have inspired him, the significance of winning the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, and the poems from […]
Katharine Coles is interviewed for KUER
Date: March 28, 2013
Katharine Coles chats with Doug Fabrizio from KUER radio about living in Antarctica and her new book The Earth Is Not Flat. To listen to the full interview, click
Eloise Klein Healy chats with Wendy C. Ortiz from The Rumpus
Date: March 23, 2013
Wendy C. Ortiz from The Rumpus asks Eloise Klein Healy about her writing process, Arktoi Books, and her plans as the poet laureate of Los Angeles.- To read the full […]
Jessy Randall interviews herself for The Nervous Breakdown
Date: March 21, 2013
Jessy Randall talks about her favorite literary magazines, the books that changed her life, and how it feels to have a new book come out in a self interview for […]
KPFA features Andrew Lam
Date: March 20, 2013
Andrew Lam chats with Dennis Bernstein from San Francisco's KPFA about Birds of Paradise Lost. To listen to the interview, click
Eloise Klein Healy is featured on KCRW
Date: March 14, 2013
Eloise Klein Healy reads selections from A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, and talks with KCRW's Michael Silverblatt about "what it means to be a poet of […]
Reviews:
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES by Good River Review
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
The Markaz Review calls Laila Halaby’s memoir THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS “fearlessly authentic,” “vulnerable,” and “haunting.”
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
Madeleine Nakamura receives a five star review of “Cursebreakers” from AuthorLink.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS receives STARRED Book Review from Independent Book Review!
Date: August 15, 2023
CURSEBREAKERS by Madeleine Nakamura is a novel as electric as the lightning-bolt magic its protagonist wields, filled with curses, destruction, and piercing heartache. Sometimes vicious and violent; all times spectacular […]
Artem Mozgovoy’s SPRING IN SIBERIA receives high praise on Out In Print blog!
Date: August 15, 2023
“A remarkable work that is both a poignant story of queer coming-of-age and a breathtaking history of modern Russia.”
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER receives stellar review on Poetry Foundation!
Date: August 10, 2023
“Poems like these are as two-sided as Vuong’s title instrument: a zither plucked and plucked, played upon and snatched away. For every touch of warmth and musicality, she admits something […]