David Mason interview
Date: March 28, 2011
The "High Plains Reader" has a great new interview with Red Hen author and Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason. He talks about his inspirations and gives a bit of advice, […]
Date: March 28, 2011
The "High Plains Reader" has a great new interview with Red Hen author and Colorado Poet Laureate David Mason. He talks about his inspirations and gives a bit of advice, […]
Date: March 25, 2011
Chapter 16 (a forum of Tennessee writers, readers, and passerby) posted a fantastic interview with Gaylord Brewer regarding his 8th collection of poems Give Over, Graymalkin. Gaylord discusses his residences […]
Date: March 25, 2011
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Date: April 12, 2021
Nikki Moustaki’s debut collection of poetry captures this divide and dissociation while establishing themes of darkness and light within the difficult narratives of suffering and abuse. These poems juxtapose the […]
Date: April 12, 2021
Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat is like a newborn scream that’s been held in for eons. Sharp, strong, unapologetic, beautiful, and angry, the writing in this collection is a […]
Date: April 1, 2021
Guest Post by Lannie Stabile. A Black girl can be a dog, a rat, a gadget, a myth, a ghost, a mermaid, origami, or livestock. A Black girl can be […]
Date: March 24, 2021
“Funny, spooky, sad, and yet hopeful, Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY is at times a family drama, a ghost story, a commentary on race relations, an intense flirtation, and a love […]
Date: March 18, 2021
In a decade of reading and writing about motherhood poetry—including an essay-review in these pages in 2019—I have found no universal truths about motherhood. However, as I’ve worked with poet […]
Date: March 17, 2021
Bawdy and tragic, Taipei in Taiwan is not New York City. There is more Confucian shame than Taoist ecstasy. In these tales of love, lust and relationships gone awry, Yun-Han […]
Date: March 11, 2021
What happens when a Midwestern girl migrates to a haunted Southern town, whose river is a graveyard, whose streets bear the names of Southern slave owners? How can she build […]
Date: February 24, 2021
Like many devoted bibliophiles, I love to visit archives. I sigh contentedly while enacting the familiar rituals of shutting the locker door on all of my belongings except two mechanical […]
Date: February 24, 2021
The Past Meets the Present Shearn’s book, Unseen City, is an unexpected entry into an historical home and the contrast between life and death. Or, perhaps more fitting, the contrast […]
Date: February 24, 2021
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