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:
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
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 […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
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 […]
One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review
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 […]
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
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 […]
Cynthia Arrieu-King, Diagram
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 […]
Ely Shipley, Quarterly West
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. […]
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
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 […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
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.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
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 […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]