The Coil calls Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS one of the “Most Anticipated October 2019 Books”!
Date: October 7, 2019
The Coil dishes the best new books to read this month. Fiction, memoir, history, crime, politics, & poetry for our tough times.
News & Reviews
News:
Booktalk podcast discusses Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS!
Date: October 3, 2019
The pigs are beautiful, but fierce, with sharp teeth and insatiable appetites, and they eat anything. When a boy washes ashore in a barrel, the children must decide what to […]
Domino includes Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS on their “What to Read This Fall, Depending on How You Want to Feel” list!
Date: September 10, 2019
The days of lounging lazily in the sun, SPF slathered generously all over your skin as you dive into a good book, might be ending, but that means we get […]
THE RUMPUS highlights conversation between Percival Everett and Douglas Manuel
Date: April 15, 2019
WHEN THE SH*T HITS THE FAN: A CONVERSATION WITH PERCIVAL EVERETT BY DOUGLAS MANUEL April 15th, 2019 During finals week, right before the semester was over, I was given the opportunity […]
Maurya Simon interviewed by Poetry Flash
Date: October 1, 2018
Meryl Natchez conducts a
Foreword Reviews Cai Emmons and tammy lynne stoner
Date: September 28, 2018
Cai Emmons, Author of Weather Woman, and tammy lynne stoner, Author of Sugar Land, Discuss Their Latest Books for Red Hen Press Full
Feminist Wednesday: Meet Sarah Cannon
Date: September 27, 2018
Feminist Wednesday features Sarah Cannon! Meet Sarah Cannon as she talks about writing, feminism, burnout, and giving advices to budding writers. Full interview
Poet Laureate’s Tribute to South Pasadena
Date: September 26, 2018
Ron Koertge pens a lovely poem to the city of South Pasadena! Read the poem, "Ode to South Pasadena"
Maurya Simon goes to Rome for a residency!
Date: July 19, 2018
Maurya Simon just accepted a Visiting Artists Residency at the American Academy in Rome! This month-long November residency serves as a great opportunity for Maurya and her writing. Congrats Maurya!
Archila featured on Poets.org’s Poem-A-Day series
Date: July 19, 2018
Congrats to our incredible poet and accomplished author William Archila for his feature on The Academy of American Poets. He was highlighted on their website's Poem-a-Day series! Read "Spirits"
Reviews:
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT Reviewed in LA Review of Books!
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
The Friday Poem recommends Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS Receives a Starred Kirkus Review!
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE Earns a Kirkus Star!
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
PEN America Interviews John Weir, Author of YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
TENDER GRAVITY by Marybeth Holleman Reviewed in the Colorado Review!
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Warped Perspective recommends Peter Ulrich’s Drumming with Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]
EcoTheo Collective reviews Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: November 2, 2022
The American ghost, in Khalisa Rae’s narrative, is a chimera—a multi formed, multi-faceted reflection and mirror of society, of survival, and suspense, of waiting to see what the future will […]