Date: May 7, 2024
June is Aphasia Awareness Month and the month for national observances regarding dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. These aspects of brain function are the unlikely creative focus for poet and educator […]
Date: May 6, 2024
Orange County libraries are celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month, and NBC LA interviewed E.P. Tuazon on his own work and involvement. Check out the article and the video interview below!
Date: May 2, 2024
Lansing State Journal lists SECRET HARVESTS as one of 20 books to honor AAPI Heritage Month. Check out the full list below!
Date: May 1, 2024
Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not […]
Date: April 30, 2024
For Arab American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of April, we asked our member magazines and presses to share with us some of the work by Arab American […]
Date: April 30, 2024
Brynn Saito’s third book of poems, Under a Future Sky, was published in August 2023 by Red Hen Press. A 2023 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow, Brynn is the […]
Date: April 30, 2024
Q&A with Amy Shearn From my Q&A with Amy Shearn, author of Dear Edna Sloane: How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I think […]
Date: April 29, 2024
Thank you to Solstice Magazine for publishing Susan Rich’s powerful essay on her experience with coerced abortion and how writing her latest collection of poems helped her heal.
Date: April 25, 2024
Follow along as Amy Shearn posts a photo on Chicago Review of Books’ Instagram page every day leading up to the release of DEAR EDNA SLOANE on April 30.
Date: April 23, 2024
In this Episode Lol and Budgie talk to Peter Ulrich about ‘The Need and The Desire to Hold Things Together!’
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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Date: February 24, 2021
Keith Flynn might be the love child of William Blake and Etta James. In his latest collection, The Skin of Meaning, he moves easily from whisper to croon to full-throated growl. […]
Date: February 17, 2021
A Slow Burn Everything about Jessica “Jess” is a slow burn. From the way she yearns for Natasha to the lingering scent of death that she can’t escape. Jess smolders […]
Date: February 17, 2021
Rae considers the intersection of history and modernity in the American South in her provocative debut. “The South will birth a new kind of haunting in your black girl-ness,” she […]
Date: February 3, 2021
One facet in poetry’s beauty is its urgency. Its collective need–which is beyond desire–to facilitate a process that weaves its spill and story. Urgency is one of the driving forces […]
Date: February 3, 2021
This could be called a book of odes, of praise songs, of quests punctuated with wry asides. Of poems saying not what the poet starts out to say, but what […]
Date: February 3, 2021
In Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s novel, The Likely World, Mel lets a drug called “cloud” spread over her mouth and wrap her in a state of forgetfulness. The story is told in a […]
