Dini Karasik interviews Dan Vera
Date: February 24, 2013
Fellow writer Dini Karasik chats with Dan Vera about Speaking Wiri Wiri for her blog. To watch the full video interview, click
News & Reviews
News:
William Trowbridge is featured on KCUR radio show
Date: January 22, 2013
Kansas City's KCUR featured selections from William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool: The Musical on an edition of their show New Letters on the Air that highlighted new approaches to intertwining […]
LitBridge Features Interview with Red Hen Press
Date: January 3, 2013
Red Hen has a lot to look foward to this year: "Our two top fiction spring releases, B.H. James's, Parnucklian for Chocolate and Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost… are […]
Brynn Saito reads from The Palace of Contemplating Departure on KUSP’s Poetry Show
Date: December 19, 2012
Brynn's debut poetry collection will be released in March, 2013. To listen to her read, click
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus makes Library Journal’s Best Books 2012 List
Date: December 6, 2012
Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus makes Library Journal's Best Books 2012 list for Spiritual Living.- To see the full article, click
KUOW hosts a reading by Alice Derry
Date: November 19, 2012
Alice Derry reads her poem "Fooling Around" from Tremolo for KUOW. To read the full article and listen to the reading, click
Alice Derry’s Tremolo is featured on KUOW
Date: November 13, 2012
Elizabeth Austin features Alice Derry's Tremolo on the KUOW website.- "In "Finding the Poem," Port Angeles poet Alice Derry sees in the salmon's efforts a parallel with the way we […]
Sherman Oaks Patch interviews Eloise Klein Healy
Date: October 23, 2012
Anna King from the Sherman Oaks Patch interviews Eloise Klein Healy about her latest book A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings.- To read the full interview, click
i09 recommends Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams Into Cows!
Date: October 12, 2012
Annalee Newitz from i09 praises Jessy Randall's work in Injecting Dreams Into Cows. – "The best science poem you’ll read this month." To get the full article, click
Robin Caudell from Press Republican chats with Charles Fort
Date: October 11, 2012
Robin Caudell from Press Republican chats with Charles Fort about his writing career and upcoming works. – To read the full piece, click
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 […]
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 […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS earns a starred review in Kirkus!
Date: August 8, 2023
“Nakamura’s treatment is nuanced and thoughtful, avoiding a veritable minefield of harmful stereotypes to deliver genuine characters with heart…A tightly plotted conspiracy novel that blends seamlessly with its superbly developed […]