Date: June 2, 2014
Congratulations to Jessica Piazza's Interrobang for winning the Balcones Poetry Prize from Austin Community College! Interrobang by Jessica Piazza, published by Red Hen Press, is Piazza's first book. Born and […]
Date: May 16, 2014
Congratulations to Red Hen author Peggy Shumaker for winning the Rasmuson Foundation's top honor, The Distinguished Artist Fellowship! One of the Rasmuson Foundation's purposes is to provide artists the resources […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Congratulations to John Van Kirk! His debut novel, Song for Chance, has placed in the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award. Van Kirk's book received an Honorable Mention in the General Fiction […]
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 Magazine is celebrating National Poetry Month by announcing and presenting five different feminist unpublished poems.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: December 13, 2013
Lisa Barrow from Alibi calls Steve Basset's style in Golden Ghetto: How the Americans & French Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War "enthusiastic." "Bassetts old-school journalistic […]
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]
Date: October 30, 2013
Brian McGackin from LitReactor calls Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife "the book that's going to get you back into poetry." "Koertge isn't trying to be smart; he is smart. He […]
Date: October 30, 2013
LitBridge's Analicia Sotelo discusses the very "personal" feel of the poems of Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "Saito writes about departure with a meditative restlessness that asks if […]
Date: October 30, 2013
Morgan Harlow from Verse Wisconsin discusses the strengths of Ron Carlson's Room Service. "Ron Carlsons Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks…is genuinely engaging….Throughout this collection, the key to humor […]
Date: October 11, 2013
Wren from hazel & wren loves Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings. "Regardless of the subject, all of her poems drip with wisdom and […]
Date: October 10, 2013
Michael Caylo-Baradi from NewPages has much to say about Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost. "Lam's single story, in this collection, is the immigrant story; the pursuit of the American […]
Date: October 10, 2013
Dave Lucas from Cleveland Plain-Dealer calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "haunting first book." "Taylor's archaeological eye is also her most astonishing poetic gift: to render what we call […]
Date: October 9, 2013
Emily May Anderson from NewPages promises that Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise is "well worth adding to this falls reading list." "Whether a reader is already familiar with Healys […]
Date: October 9, 2013
SusieBookworm talks Birds of Paradise Lost in her recent blog post. "Lam is certainly able to effectively condense all he wants said into a relatively brief amount of space…There are […]
