Vox Populi features two poems from Elise Paschen’s BLOOD WOLF MOON
Date: September 19, 2024
Letters Ruby-Throated, sheundaunted, taps the porch screen,types tiny missives. ~~~
News & Reviews
News:
The Best American Poetry features “Advice on Burning Manuscripts” from Gaylord Brewer’s BEFORE THE STORM TAKES IT AWAY
Date: September 12, 2024
Part 2: Advice on Revision and the Pleasure of Burning Manuscripts with Gaylord Brewer [by Nin Andrews] In my last post, I talked about Zoom classes, about advice (or lack […]
Five South Journal’s Jennifer Allen interviews E.P. Tuazon, author of A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Date: September 12, 2024
E.P. Tuazon’s forthcoming collection of Filipino-American short stories, A Professional Lola (Red Hen Press, 2024), offers a fresh take on identity and explores what it means to be an ever-evolving character in […]
Kwento-Kwento Podcast Interviews E.P. Tuazon, author of A PROFESSIONAL LOLA
Date: September 12, 2024
Ep. 66: That Time My Lola Convinced Mormons To Do Her Chores Special guest E.P. Tuazon joins us to talk about that time their lola convinced Mormons to do her […]
Verse Daily features Jason Schneiderman’s poem CLICKBAIT
Date: September 12, 2024
Today’s poem is by Jason Schneiderman
Runner Magazine interviews Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: September 10, 2024
Ghanaian American author Esinam Bediako has been honored for her debut novel Blood on the Brain, set to launch in September of 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in […]
ELLE Magazine features Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND
Date: September 4, 2024
“Juliana Lamy’s You Were Watching from the Sand, a story collection with such range and beauty that you need to sit with each one for a while.”
World Literature Today features an Interview between Esinam Bediako and Itoro Bassey
Date: September 3, 2024
Esinam Bediako, a Ghanaian American writer from Detroit, and Itoro Bassey, a Nigerian American writer born in Houston and raised in New England, are both debut, second-generation African-diasporic authors. Bediako’s […]
Shelf Awareness Interviews Eunice Hong, Author of MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Reading with… Eunice Hong Eunice Hong is the director of the Leadership Initiative and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. She was previously a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, […]
Asian Review of Books features Nahid Rachlin’s MIRAGE
Date: August 28, 2024
Reviews:
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER featured in Soapberry Review
Date: June 6, 2023
In this work of poetry, Vuong unbinds what gets lost while carrying the aftermath from Vietnamese voices that have been longing to breathe after the disruption from wars, migration, and […]
PACIFIC LIGHT by David Mason featured in Review 31
Date: June 6, 2023
A strong poetic sensibility is combined with a successful conversational style in several insightful accounts of familiar situations, like seeing people in airports that one thinks one knows (‘Long Haul’), […]
The Seattle Times recommends Amber Flame’s APOCRIFA among ‘5 new books from LGBTQ+ authors to read this Pride month’!
Date: June 6, 2023
As we enter another Pride month, it feels as though 2023 has been one of the toughest legislative years for LGBTQ+ folks in a long time. As we witness and […]
Peninsula Clarion’s Off the Shelf recommends H Warren’s BINDED!
Date: June 6, 2023
I’ve always found poetry a bit intimidating. Sometimes I think I know where one is going, then out of nowhere I’m thrown for a loop and left puzzled with a […]
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]
Lake County Examiner features Kim Dower’s collection, SLICE OF MOON!
Date: May 23, 2023
Did you read “Slice of Moon,” our poetry book for May? If you didn’t, I don’t blame you; many people shy away from poetry, and I am one of them. […]
Recovering Words features Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: May 16, 2023
Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful.I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it,but I don’t care. For him or beauty. I am […]