Local author sharing family history through poetry
Date: January 2, 2024
A local author and Creative Writing professor at Fresno State is sharing her family history through poetry and written word. Click here to read more.
News & Reviews
News:
The 37 Best Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond) Published In 2023
Date: January 2, 2024
Books change lives when they are read wholeheartedly and must be shared. This collection covers everything from L.A. noir to sci-fi to identity and poetry. Read, gift, and get inspired. […]
2023 Small Press Gift Guide
Date: December 12, 2023
BOMB looks back at the books from small and independent presses we featured in 2023 and helps you pair them with the idiosyncratic readers in your life. We’re grateful to […]
Francesca Bell Fearlessly Tackles the Unsettling in “What Small Sound” [INTERVIEW]
Date: December 12, 2023
Francesca Bell was raised in Washington and Idaho and settled as an adult in California. She did not complete middle school, high school, or college and holds no degrees. She […]
The Best Books We Read in 2023
Date: December 12, 2023
My picks are different than yours. Different than Jaylynn’s, than Tucker’s, than Joelene’s, than Andrea’s, than the New York Times. I love that about books. We couldn’t possibly read them all, […]
FLOPPY by ALYSSA GRAYBEAL is one of Library Journal’s “Best Memoirs & Biographies” of 2023!
Date: December 5, 2023
Graybeal’s book focuses on how her rare genetic connective-tissue disorder affects her daily life. She spills her emotions on the page as she is forced to navigate through life with […]
SECRET HARVESTS by David Mas Masumoto (illustrated by Patricia Wakida) is a finalist for the GOLDEN POPPY AWARDS in Nonfiction!
Date: November 30, 2023
Thank you so much to the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and CALIBA bookstore members!
Coco Picard, author of THE HEALING CIRCLE, interviews Mandy-Suzanne Wong for Electric Literature!
Date: November 21, 2023
In this comic interview, Mandy-Suzanne Wong talks about finding inspiration for her novel from a mundane household object. Click here to read more.
The New Yorker highlights ELISE PASCHEN’S BESTIARY in the importance of “telling Osage stories!”
Date: November 21, 2023
At the end of Anthony Lane’s review of “Killers of the Flower Moon”—Martin Scorsese’s new film about murders that were committed in the Osage Nation in the early twentieth century, […]
Snap Judgement Podcast highlights “Seeking Shizuko” from DAVID MAS MASUMOTO’S book SECRET HARVESTS
Date: November 20, 2023
A young girl was lost to her family. Torn away from them during their time in the Japanese-American prison camps, she was institutionalized and thought to be gone. But now, […]
Reviews:
Injecting Dreams into Cows is reviewed on Coal Hill Review
Date: January 4, 2013
CL Bledsoe from Coal Hill Review was thrilled to read Jessy Randall's collection: "Randall's poems waste no words: they are often short but pack a powerful punch. Her language is […]
Arsenic Lobster praises But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: January 2, 2013
Jessica Dyer from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.- "Like the strands of DNA that make up living things, like the strings […]
The Seattle Lesbian labels Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus a required read
Date: December 19, 2012
Abby Soto from The Seattle Lesbian applauds Kelly Barth's memoir: "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that […]
The California Journal of Poetics reviews Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: December 12, 2012
Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows is praised by Lisa Grove from the California Journal of Poetics.- “By the end of Injecting Dreams into Cows Randall has created a time […]
Mead Magazine reviews Rodney Wittwer’s Gone & Gone
Date: November 28, 2012
Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone is reviewed by Mead magazine for their Fall 2012 volume.- "This first collection is marked by the authority and fearlessness of the voice, one willing […]
Rattle reviews Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 9, 2012
Sandra Knauf praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows for Rattle.- "Her scope is kaleidoscopic. She treasures and shares found poems. She digs deep and uses all the emotions in […]
The Deepening praises Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 8, 2012
DLKeur from The Deepening reviews and praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows.- Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave […]
ChicoER.com Reviews Gary Lemons’ Snake
Date: November 8, 2012
Dan Barnett reviews Gary Lemons' reading of Snake at the Butte College Reading Series. To read the full review, click
The Bicycle Review praises Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe
Date: November 8, 2012
J de Salvo from the The Bicycle Review praises Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe. – “Constantine has always been a poet who was admired for his wit, his line, and for […]
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus featured in Missoula Independent
Date: October 30, 2012
Here's what Michael Peck from Missoula Independent had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – "Unflinching and funny, the book concerns itself with the seeming […]