Hobart Breakfast show features PACIFIC LIGHT’s David Mason
Date: June 27, 2024
Listen in to this morning radio show, Hobart Breakfast, where David Mason makes an appearance!
News & Reviews
News:
Poet Q&A: Kim Stafford finds poetic fodder in nature, war, boyhood, and writing in new book, ‘As the Sky Begins to Change’
Date: June 19, 2024
This spring, Kim Stafford released As the Sky Begins to Change, his third book of poetry from California-based Red Hen Press. The empathetic and witty collection by the educator, writer, and Oregon’s ninth […]
Lynnell Edwards writes about her poetry and THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT in Mad in America
Date: June 10, 2024
Me: I think there’s a lot of trauma he has to process Dr. K: Did something happen?! —“Medical History #2,” The Bearable Slant of Light In the first intake documents from […]
Shelf Unbound’s Summer 2024 Issue Features Multiple of our Authors!
Date: June 6, 2024
Thank you to the Shelf Unbound Editor for the immense support for our titles! Mirage by Nahid Rachlin Sonnets for a Missing Key by Percival Everett Circle of Animals by Sadie Hoagland Memento […]
ANNIKA ROSE’S Cheri Johnson featured on MN Reads on Northland Morning
Date: June 6, 2024
“Rosemary’s Baby but set in Northern Minnesota” is how author Cheri Johnson describes her latest work. Annika Rose follows the title character as she navigates the early stages of adulthood while understanding a […]
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford at Elliot Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA, Tuesday June 11th at 7:00 PT
Date: June 4, 2024
Poet Kim Stafford once again visits the store from Portland for the Seattle launch of his latest collection. As the Sky Begins to Change is a book of poems to wake […]
Author Event with AS THE SKY BEGINS TO CHANGE author Kim Stafford including workshop and reading at Village Books in Bellingham, WA, Monday June 10th at 6:00 PT
Date: June 3, 2024
In his third poetry collection from Red Hen Press, Kim Stafford gathers poems that sing with empathy, humor, witness, and story. Poems in this book have been set to music, […]
Content Bookstore hosts a LIVE Conversation with CHERI JOHNSON
Date: June 3, 2024
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An interview with Elise Paschen for Water~Stone Review!
Date: May 29, 2024
Your poem, “Divination,” is a gorgeous blend of imagery, myth, and spring welcoming. Where did the spark for this poem come from? Thank you! During the pandemic, our family moved […]
Vox Populi feautres “Return of the Warbling Vireo” by Pamela Uschuk, author of REFUGEE!
Date: May 29, 2024
Deep in the oleanders’ dense thicket, a warbling vireo screamsfor a mate, another migrant back from his longtrek from Mexico. He loves the green tangoof poison leaves keeping his slim […]
Reviews:
‘As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: March 6, 2020
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review here!
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock reviewed by Full Stop!
Date: February 4, 2020
Islands provide fertile territory for utopian visions. For Thomas More, Utopia itself was an island, a self-enclosed little atoll just beyond the horizon where the best of all possible worlds […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS reviewed by bookstagrammer @bookynooky!
Date: October 31, 2019
PIGS takes place on an island on which all the Earth’s trash washes ashore. Four children must collect the trash (plastic, uneaten food, nuclear waste, unwanted advise, ect.) and feed […]
On the Seawall reviews PIGS by Johanna Stoberock!
Date: October 22, 2019
There’s a dreaminess to childhood rebellion, the moments when children viscerally understand that the adults don’t know what they are doing. Some of the most memorable moments in European arthouse […]
World Literature Today describes Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS as “incredibly moving, disheartening, disturbing, violent, and playful”!
Date: October 2, 2019
The island, from a distance, looks like almost anything other than what it actually is: a place where the world’s detritus washes up, a place where a handful of children […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS reviewed by Booklist!
Date: September 15, 2019
In Stoberock’s extraordinarily imaginative novel, four children live on a desert island where all the world’s waste washes ashore. They are tasked with the arduous, abject, and unrelenting work of […]
Wisconsin Bookwatch calls PIGS by Johanna Stoberock “a superbly crafted and thoroughly reader absorbing novel”!
Date: September 10, 2019
Synopsis: Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a […]
The Rumpus calls Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS a “beautiful and unsettling novel”!
Date: August 28, 2019
In the popular imagination, pigs simply exist to consume and to be consumed. We revile them because they are seen as gluttonous animals, indiscriminate in their pursuit for satiation, and […]
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock reviewed by Foreword Reviews!
Date: August 1, 2019
Six giant pigs, four kids, and a gang of adults on a magical island maintain a tenuous balance of power until two castaways show up in Johanna Stoberock’s probing literary […]
2018 Fall/Winter Reading List
Date: October 3, 2018
It’s 1923 and 19-year-old Dara falls in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl. To avoid a bleak, terrifying future in their small town, Dara takes […]