Date: November 19, 2025
Facilitator Spotlight: Hannah Soyer on Identity, Storytelling, and Disability Hannah Soyer, a queer disabled writer and content specialist for the Reeve Foundation, shares how storytelling empowers identity and self-acceptance. Her […]
Date: November 12, 2025
Anger Management He conducts anger management by group chat,and then asks, Mirror, mirror on the wall,who’s the angriest pod-cast host of them all?There’s an angry man in the basement,there’s an […]
Date: November 12, 2025
“The nature of the writer is to observe the world, remaining at least somewhat detached. This poem, ‘Aperture,’ explores notions of vision. What happens when the writer becomes the object, […]
Date: November 12, 2025
In today’s episode, I talk with poet April Ossmann about her new book of poetry titled “We.” It’s full of poems that bridge divides and see the humanity of others. […]
Date: November 12, 2025
I believe the solution to ending our painful political division is a spiritual/emotional one, resolved not by reason, argument or verbal bullying, but by willingness to engage civilly. We can, […]
Date: November 4, 2025
Cai Emmons’ ‘The Bells’ releases posthumously as a documentary on her final months screens.
Date: October 28, 2025
Visual artist and photographer, Louise Wannier, author of the new children’s book TREE SPIRITS AROUND THE WORLD. Louise talks about inspiring children to open their imaginations and connect more meaningfully […]
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: June 10, 2024
“DC Frost does an artful job of weaving in current campus social issues, juggling multiple suspects, and giving us a peek into the tense relationship between the two men who […]
Date: June 6, 2024
LA Daily News adds A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost to their list of 10 summer books from LA authors!
Date: June 4, 2024
A problem with circles is that they can be traps. Acupuncture, yoga, LSD, past-life regressions, pole dancing, psychic surgery, “special tea”: these are just some of the therapies sampled by […]
Date: May 29, 2024
“E.P. Tuazon’s collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, […]
Date: May 23, 2024
Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
