Date: May 7, 2014
Congratulations to Andrew Lam! His book Birds of Paradise Lost is on the shortlist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Lam's book placed in the Fiction category shortlist. […]
Date: April 18, 2014
David Mason's verse novel Ludlow is featured in the Washington Post to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of a massacre that led to the murder of two dozen striking coal […]
Date: April 3, 2014
Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry as one of the best works by a Nor Cal author. The […]
Date: April 3, 2014
Andrew Lam's debut novel Birds of Paradise Lost is a finalist in the 83rd Annual California Book Awards. His book is one of two finalists in the First Fiction category. […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Veronica Reyes sat down with El Paseo Times and gave some insight into her artisitc process and her new book of poetry. "'Poetry just comes out of you, those moments […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Ms. Magazine is celebrating National Poetry Month by announcing and presenting five different feminist unpublished poems. The first is Veronica Reyes's "The Hawk." You can read Ms. Blog's feature and […]
Date: April 2, 2014
Artsmith announced Peggy Shumaker as their Artist of the Year! This honor is given to an artist who "exemplifies mastery in her or his field and generosity to others." Congratulations […]
Date: March 5, 2014
Washington Independent Review of Books celebrates Red Hen's 20th anniversary with a feature: "Since its creation two decades ago, the press' dual focus on building a literary niche and forging […]
Date: February 25, 2014
Read Veronica's in-depth interview at Primera Taza
Date: February 20, 2014
Kelly Davio's latest poetry book, Burn This House, has been named a 2013 Julie Suk Award Finalist for Best Poetry Book. The award, presented by Jacar Press, is award to […]
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"If you feel that high emotion and unalienated confession is not art, as Slavoj Zizek might assert that it cops to the System where the individual is valued for trying […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's awareness of the book's form, its how in addition to its what, allows for these poems' rich complexities. The order not only forms a linear narrative, but layers experience. […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
