DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE author and musician Peter Ulrich returns to the Curious Creatures Podcast for part 2
Date: April 23, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘The Need and The Desire to Hold Things Together!’
News & Reviews
News:
The Campaign for the American reader interviews THE GOOD DEED author Helen Benedict
Date: April 22, 2024
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think titles are of utmost importance to the writer and the reader. For the writer, they […]
BLUE ATLAS author Susan Rich interviewed by Solstice Literary Magazine
Date: April 22, 2024
Susan Rich’s masterful collection, Blue Atlas, (Red Hen Press, April 2, 2024) is a physical and emotional travelogue through a “land of deferred decisions.” In this collection, the reader is […]
TRACE by Brenda Cárdenas wins Midland Authors Award for poetry
Date: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024 — The Society of Midland Authors today announced its annual awards, honoring its choices for the best books by Midwest authors published in 2023. In each category, […]
LIKE WINGS, YOUR HANDS author Elizabeth Earley navigates religious trauma in an article on Advocate magazine
Date: April 15, 2024
I was listening to NPR, watching my kids swim in the bay, their shining heads bobbing in the light-studded water when I heard the news about the tragic death of […]
Utah Public Radio interviews GHOST APPLES author Katharine Coles
Date: April 15, 2024
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so […]
Listen to DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE author Peter Ulrich on the Curious Creatures Podcast
Date: April 15, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘Creating Life Out of Dead Things!’
Harvard University features MONKEY BUSINESS author Carleton Eastlake with others for a virtual discussion on writing mystery on April 25th, 5:30 PT
Date: April 15, 2024
Join us for a mysterious, thrilling, and even downright terrifying Harvardwood Author Series event! Learn how to craft suspense and have your readers clutching their pearls with every page turn. […]
Largehearted Boy features article, “Helen Benedict’s playlist for her novel THE GOOD DEED”!
Date: April 10, 2024
“At heart, the novel is not only about the hardship of becoming a refugee, and the imbalance of power between the privileged and the destitute, it is about love.” In […]
Snowflakes in a Blizzard blog features Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED!
Date: April 10, 2024
SUMMARY: Set in 2018 against the backdrop of an overcrowded, fetid refugee camp on the beautiful Greek island of Samos, The Good Deed follows the stories of four women living in […]
Reviews:
Poetry Foundation Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: May 13, 2024
Blue Atlas by Susan Rich takes its title from the Blue Atlas Cedar found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. As the book’s epigraph explains: “It is the hardiest species and […]
Pioneer Press Celebrates Minnesota Authors, Naming ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson on Their List
Date: May 13, 2024
Pioneer Press has names ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson as one of their three fiction works from Minnesota authors. The full review is in the link below!
The Shore features review of Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!
Date: May 8, 2024
Susan Rich’s newest collection, Blue Atlas, is a complicated work that artfully blends the personal and the political, avoiding didacticism to create a timely narrative that explores the themes of […]
Soapberry Review features article on “Loss and surrealism in E.P. Tuazon’s Professional Lola”!
Date: May 8, 2024
I’m one of three children of immigrants from the Philippines. My mother and father came to the United States with their respective families in the ’60s and ’70s and met […]
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM by Kim Dower Reviewed by Angel City Review
Date: May 2, 2024
There are few things more classically Freudian than autobiographical poems about a poet’s relationship with their mother, and this new collection by prolific former West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim […]
Southern Review of Books names DEER BLACK OUT by Ulrich Jesse K. Baer in their April 2024 lineup
Date: April 29, 2024
Check out the extensive list of The Best Southern Books of April 2024 by Southern Review of Books at the link below!
New West Indian Guide features review of Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND
Date: April 23, 2024
You Were Watching from the Sand (Pasadena CA: Red Hen, 2023, paper US$16.95), the debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life […]
Léon Pradeau reviews Ulrich Jesse K. Baer’s DEER BLACK OUT on Verse of April
Date: April 23, 2024
I was driven, & I was moved. Your book travels through identities at night, like deer eyes I saw glowing over a road in upstate Wisconsin, arresting. Your words keep […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Library Journal Review of A Professional Lola
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]