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 22, 2024
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a poet and artist who explores innovative and experimental writing techniques. Her writing incorporates computation and artificial intelligence alongside more conventional literary forms, with her interdisciplinary work […]
Date: February 15, 2024
In 2004, Francisco Aragón launched Letras Latinas under the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame. As the institute’s literary arm, Letras Latinas has a mission […]
Date: February 14, 2024
Chapter One Sky hears no talking when Green leaves the sea cliffs. All he hears is the fog net snapping in the offshore wind, the whine of the plastic fabric […]
Date: February 14, 2024
Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, which includes a $2,000 award and publication of […]
Date: February 14, 2024
Back in the day, books by popular authors were published in fall/winter. Not anymore, as proved by these forthcoming titles for spring and summer. We’ve got John Sandford, Leif Enger, […]
Date: February 14, 2024
The Call—I Thought I Knew My Family February 2012 Shizuko is sick, sick to death with this long agony. She lays still, her ninety year-old body motionless. Her wheelchair sits […]
Date: February 14, 2024
Alice Waters thinks David Mas Masumoto’s peaches could change the world. Today, Masumoto shares his search for the perfect peach and the shocking family secret that changed the history of […]
Date: February 14, 2024
In early January the American Academy of Poets elected Afaa M. Weaver, Diane Seuss, and Jericho Brown to its Board of Chancellors. I was thrilled by the news, because these […]
Date: February 1, 2024
Check out Henrietta Thornton’s review of NOW YOU OWE ME by debut Red Hen Press author ALIAH WRIGHT published in firstCLUE! “Readers are drawn into a gripping tale—I read it […]
Date: May 9, 2022
In his introduction to New Moons, a collection of poetry, fiction, and lyrical memoirs by Muslims in North America, Kazim Ali confesses the difficulty of embarking on an anthology that seeks […]
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Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom finds the former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood celebrating a colorful mosaic of mothering moments that range from the spiritual to […]
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John Weir’s linked stories explore sexuality and separation through platonic love, activism, art, and death — in a time when gender was confined to “girl, boy, or faggot” and AIDS […]
Date: April 4, 2022
Elaborate scams and workplace murders abound in this bleakly comic novel.
