Anna V.Q. Ross’s poem THIRTEEN on The Slowdown Podcast
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.
News & Reviews
News:
Juliana Lamy on The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction’s longlist
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 […]
Theresa Bonpane on the Bibliocracy Podcast on KPFK
Date: March 7, 2024
Catch her episode on March 5, 2024 Episode at 2:00pm Listen here.
MacLeish Sq. on the short list of the Somerset Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction
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.
Poem-a-Day features Allison Joseph’s “Incognito Grief: A Blues”!
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 […]
David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS, featured on My Unsung Hero Podcast!
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.
David Mas Masumoto discusses SECRET HARVESTS on KALW’s Your Call!
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 […]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram was named a 2024 Poetry Grantee by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
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 […]
Poets and Writers interviews Francisco Aragón of Letras Latinas
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 […]
Swordfights & Spaceflights features excerpt from Thea Prieto’s novella, FROM THE CAVES!
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 […]
Reviews:
Julie Enszer, Lambda Book Report
Date: April 16, 2009
"The strength of Sister is in the details, some of which are constructed through Brown's diction, which is gently infused with a southern dialect but resists caricature. She writes of […]
Melanie Jordan, Southern Indiana Review
Date: April 16, 2009
"To write of one's own conception, gestation, birth"to write convincingly of unknowable-yet-familiar moments: that is the power of poetry and the power of Nickole Brown's debut, Sister, a self-styled "novel-in-poems.' […]
American Poet: The Journal of The Academy of American Poets
Date: April 16, 2009
"Nickole Brown's poems marry an enthralling and tormented narrative with woven, specific lyricism to create a layered progression through a difficult past. Brown has immediate access to how the situations […]
Cate Marvin, Ploughshares
Date: April 16, 2009
"Using umbilicus as guide rail, the speaker of Nickole Brown's Sister–an unflinching and deeply intelligent first book–undertakes a hair-lifting expedition back to her childhood so as to return herself to […]
Erica Wright, ForeWord Magazine
Date: April 16, 2009
"It would be easy to say that this collection is an indictment, but there is nothing easy about these poems. They are each skillfully wrought pieces about impossible subjects. . […]
Publishers Weekly, August 2007
Date: April 16, 2009
"Brown's forthright debut opens with an intimate address to a sister: "I tell you this story because it is / the story we need / to believe our offal is […]
Time Out London, April 24, 2008
Date: April 14, 2009
Time Out LondonMotel Girl (Red Hen Press) is the debut collection of New York writer Greg Sanders. Like many debut collections it draws material from a decade of writing, going […]
Michael Swagner reviews Earthquake I.D.
Date: April 13, 2009
John Domini Earthquake I.D. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $20.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59709-076-6Des Moines author John Domini has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Meridian Editors […]
Naomi Shihab Nye reviews Double Moon
Date: April 13, 2009
Margo Klass and Frank Soos Double Moon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1This is a stunning book and I want to live in it. Double Moon — one […]
Ariel Dorfman reviews Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn
Date: April 13, 2009
Deena Metzger Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (296p) ISBN 1-888996-99-4In this heartbreaking, heart-making novel, Deena Metzger dares to ask, to truly ask, the question […]