Date: March 19, 2024
Today’s book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In his new memoir, Mas discovers his […]
Date: March 19, 2024
Growing up, Mas Masumoto was vaguely aware that he had an aunt who’d been separated from the family in the 1940s. Her name was Shizuko Sugimoto, and she had an […]
Date: March 19, 2024
In a narrow, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students is workshopping a short story…. While they speak, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, […]
Date: March 12, 2024
Today’s poem celebrates the glow and growth of daughters, their energy and curiosity, their intuition and vulnerability. Click here to listen.
Date: March 12, 2024
“Every sentence Juliana Lamy writes is like a match being struck. Not many authors debut with her clarity of vision, inventiveness, and verbal agility, and I would wager almost anything […]
Date: March 7, 2024
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Date: February 29, 2024
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. Click here to read more.
Date: February 28, 2024
About this Poem “This poem is inspired by the great songwriter and American treasure Paul Simon. I was teaching one of my college poetry classes about the strength of the […]
Date: February 28, 2024
A worker at a funeral home makes a special effort to locate the family members of an ailing woman, and unwittingly uncovers a family secret that goes back decades.
Date: February 28, 2024
On this edition of Your Call, David “Mas” Masumoto discusses his new memoir, Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm. It tells the story […]
Date: February 21, 2024
Today’s read… Tree Spirits by Louise Wannier Today’s read heads into the direction of creativity and imagination. It was presented to me as an unique, nonfiction read…and I’m expecting it […]
Date: February 21, 2024
I’m back with some new books to explore fun STEM concepts. I really miss having a Discovery Club at my library… maybe I’ll use these as a way to gauge […]
Date: February 14, 2024
Benedict revisits the terrain of her nonfiction account Map of Hope and Sorrow (with Eyad Awwadawnan) for a complex and heartbreaking story of Syrians living at a refugee camp on the Greek […]
Date: February 6, 2024
A restless millennial editor seeks connection with a former literary starlet in this epistolary novel. Read more here.
Date: January 31, 2024
“Full of eerie atmospheric writing and many unanswered questions, poet Johnson’s fiction debut both disturbs and absorbs. Annika Rose is 17 and living in the middle of nowhere in northern […]
Date: January 24, 2024
Fluid states of being Essays on and by David Mason by Geoff Page American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and […]
Date: January 17, 2024
Set in 2018, Benedict’s latest follows a group of women who have sought refuge on the Greek island of Samos. The book begins with the frantic rescue of an infant […]
Date: December 12, 2023
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Cynthia Hogue have always written about embodiment. Their first poetry collections addressed what fairy tales and other inherited stories say about womanhood, and what they erase. […]
Date: December 12, 2023
The resilient and confessional eighth book from Rich (Gallery of Postcards and Maps) centers on a pressured midterm abortion undergone when a relationship fails. … these poems offer a surreal […]
Date: December 4, 2023
The book’s title, What Small Sound, refers to the sounds her ears can no longer hear. The title poem takes place in an audiologist’s booth, where clutching for sounds, she thinks […]
