Maurya Simon profiled in Press-Enterprise
Date: December 2, 2008
UCR poet gets exposure on Garrison Keillor program For the full article, go here:
News & Reviews
News:
Amy Lemmon is Guest Blogger at the Best American Poetry Blog
Date: September 7, 2008
The Islands Project wins 2008 GCLS
Date: August 1, 2008
Reviews:
Review of Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM featured in Jewish Book Council!
Date: October 11, 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: […]
“tender gravity”–a gem of a book by Marybeth Holleman
Date: October 10, 2023
Marybeth Holleman’s book tender gravity was my companion on a recent hike in Avalanche Canyon in Grand Teton National Park, and what fine company it was, contributing to the feeling of well-being […]
23 Must-Read Books that Will Transform How You Think about Food and the World
Date: October 10, 2023
This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. Books like Taras Grescoe’s The Lost Supper, Sarah Lohman’s Endangered Eating, […]
Jaya Savige at Times Literary Supplement calls PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason “a home-seeking voice, lured by the Pacific”
Date: September 25, 2023
In Pacific Light, David Mason’s eighth collection of poems, we find the former Poet Laureate of Colorado newly settled in Tasmania, weighing the “titanic volumes of air” between “here and Patagonia” […]
Vivian Wagner reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: September 20, 2023
What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and […]
Juliana Lamy’s debut short-story collection YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND featured in Daily Kos!
Date: September 20, 2023
The Bookgirl Community in the Daily Kos highlights key takeaways from Juliana Lamy’s first short-story collection, You Were Watching from the Sand, published by Red Hen Press this September! Read […]
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
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: […]