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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Date: March 13, 2013
KSER Seattle's Democracy Now radio station hosts a three part interview with Gary Lemons, featuring readings from his latest book of poetry, Snake. To listen to the interview, click
Date: March 13, 2013
The Nebraska Girls Lit Hour features an interview with Eloise Klein Healy in which she discusses being the Los Angeles poet laureate and her latest book A Wild Surmise: New […]
Date: March 12, 2013
KALW radio's Hana Baba talks with Andrew Lam about the Vietnamese American experience in San Francisco and his book Birds of Paradise Lost.- To listen to the interview, click
Date: March 5, 2013
A weekly prose feature on 32Poems finds Sebastian Matthews discussing "mid-life songs" and the connection between dreams and writing. To read the full interview, click
Date: March 5, 2013
Camille Dungy talks to Mosiac about the presence of her upbringing and jazz in her poetry. To see what else inspires her, please click
Date: February 27, 2013
Radio host Michael Krasny from KQED talks with Andrew Lam about Birds of Paradise Lost. To listen to the full interview, click
Date: June 4, 2020
A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]
Date: June 4, 2020
In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
