Date: October 28, 2025
Glitzy gated communities, drug-induced hazes. National moral collapse and the “beautiful, haunted” allure of Los Angeles. This is just a tease of the mood board that is Luke Goebel’s “Kill […]
Date: October 8, 2025
William Archila’s works are featured in the following recommended book lists on Social Justice Books: Poetry, Central America, El Salvador and Bilingual.
Date: October 7, 2025
Date: September 30, 2025
When Ron Koertge writes about Persephone, Nancy Drew, and Dracula’s wives in the same poetry collection, he’s creating the unexpected literary terrain that has defined his decades-long career. The longtime […]
Date: September 30, 2025
Louise Wannier is the author and photographer of the new children’s picture book Tree Spirits Around the World. She also has created the book Tree Spirits. She is an artist […]
Date: September 30, 2025
Author, artist, and creative entrepreneur Louise Wannier shares how photography led her to write a children’s book about tree spirits. My years behind the camera taught me to notice the […]
Date: September 30, 2025
A new poem by David Eggleton, whose new book Lifting the Island was published this week by Red Hen Press. Breathing Space Before the gerontocracy get to me,and put me in a […]
Date: September 16, 2025
The Wallpaper* USA 400 celebrates Creative America in all its dazzling breadth and diversity. Our snapshot of the people who are shaping the country’s creative landscape in 2025 spans community builders, […]
Date: September 16, 2025
CARBONDALE — Local poet and SIU professor Allison Joseph recently released a collection of poems Dwelling, which she said is “about home and how we find home, how home is in […]
Date: September 16, 2025
Eunice Hong’s debut novel, Memento Mori, selected by Aimee Liu as a Red Hen Press Fiction Award Winner, follows an unnamed Korean narrator through mythology, memory loss, and numerous personal tragedies. […]
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]
Date: November 14, 2022
The title of your book Your Nostalgia is Killing Me, seems to be an ironic one. The protagonist’s nostalgia is seemingly running havoc on his own life. He can’t escape revisiting the past and […]
Date: November 9, 2022
Though Marybeth Holleman is the author of several nonfiction books centering around environmental issues and her chosen home of Alaska, tender gravity is her debut collection of poetry. Its title is drawn […]
Date: November 9, 2022
Dead Can Dance have long been a deeply resonant, exploratory presence on the outskirts of alternative music. Never comfortably existing in one genre or another – no surprises there, given […]
Date: November 2, 2022
The American ghost, in Khalisa Rae’s narrative, is a chimera—a multi formed, multi-faceted reflection and mirror of society, of survival, and suspense, of waiting to see what the future will […]
