Date: April 10, 2025
On this edition of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie chats with Wisconsin Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas about her new position and the exciting plans she has in the works during […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Nancy Kricorian is featured in Thrive, the project of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA). In the piece, she reflects on her life philosophy and explores her connection to Armenian […]
Date: April 9, 2025
Two poems by William Archila from his collection Canícula/Dog Days, “Radio” and “Guayaberas,” along with their Spanish translations by Mario Zetino, are featured in the latest issue of the Los […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Pasadena Now reports on author Nancy Kricorian’s recent visit to St. Gregory A. & M. Hovsepian School, where she met with 8th-grade students to discuss her new novel, The Burning […]
Date: April 8, 2025
“I grew up in a two-family house in the Armenian enclave of East Watertown, Massachusetts. My parents, my sister, and I lived on the ground floor, and my grandmother and […]
Date: April 8, 2025
Lara Ehrlich’s upcoming novel, Bind Me Tighter Still—set to be released this September—is featured in Every Book a Doorway. The reviewer praises the book’s originality, writing that it contains ideas […]
Date: April 8, 2025
April Ossmann was recently interviewed by The Reporter, where she reflected on her literary journey and discussed how rising political tensions in the United States since 2015 have shaped the […]
Date: April 8, 2025
In Cynthia Hogue’s tenth collection of poetry, instead, it is dark, she explores the lingering ghosts of war after her husband suffers a heart attack and recounts dreams of his […]
Date: April 7, 2025
Vanishing: A Love Story — a documentary by Sandra Luckow receiving a preview screening at Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. on April 8 at 7 p.m., with a Q&A with the director […]
Date: April 2, 2025
Malia Márquez’s City of Smoke and Sea is featured in Alta Journal’s “13 New Books for April” — a list of titles their editors are excited about.
Date: June 29, 2022
Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear […]
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
Date: May 24, 2022
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
