Date: September 10, 2026
Huge congratulations to Jason Schneiderman on this prestigious honor, alongside fellow 2026 Pegasus Awards recipients Robert Pinsky, Luis J. Rodriguez, Nikki Grimes, and Meg Day!
Date: September 10, 2026
Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is releasing a collection of poems called The Cardinals on September 1st, 2026, along with an accompanying single, “Days of Letting Go,” out September 4th, […]
Date: September 8, 2026
Amy Speace’s senior university lecture was a discussion on whether Bob Dylan is a poet or a songwriter. Now, Speace is living that dichotomy, as she releases a book of […]
Date: September 3, 2026
Tara: So Marivi, I would love to hear your Meet Cue for Taxi Dancer. When, where, and how did inspiration first strike? Marivi: When we first moved to San Diego in 2001, […]
Date: September 1, 2026
BRIDE She wakes and dresses quickly in the dark,buttoning her bodice one-handed,her other palm smoothing back the sheetagainst its linen companion, a pillowcaseetched around with her smallest stitches,both newly released […]
Date: August 18, 2026
Young spoke with Havana Times about the silences that shaped her family, the maternal power she discovered through the ancient goddess Cybele, the politics of writing about the female body, and the […]
Date: August 13, 2026
Date: August 8,2026 In July, 2026, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alan Chazaro about his latest poetry collection, These Spaceships Weren’t Built for Us. Our conversation took us from the […]
Date: August 11, 2026
Little made sense, on paper, about a folk singer in her 50s with a young child and a touring lifestyle pivoting to chase an MFA—and specifically to study a form […]
Date: August 4, 2026
At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is actually on our nightstands? […]
Date: August 3, 2026
Huge congratulations to Adela Najarro on this prestigious win, alongside other honorees such as Stephen Colbert and Karen Tei Yamashita!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]
