Adriana Páramo featured in Solstice Literary Magazine
Date: September 5, 2023
I’m lying on my back, scrawny feet up in the stirrups. In my head, I go like, don’t look, don’t look, don’t you look at her, but of course, I […]
News & Reviews
News:
KPBS Midday Show features poet and author Phuong T. Vuong as she discusses her latest book, A PLUCKED ZITHER
Date: September 5, 2023
[In this episode] we introduce you to a local poet whose work sheds light on war, migration and the experience of the Vietnamese diaspora. Click here to access the recording.
Juliana Lamy’s “You Were Watching from the Sand” featured as the new book of the day by NewPages.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Playful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, You Were Watching from the Sand is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite […]
New Mexico’s Daily Lobo interviews Diane Thiel, author of “Questions from Outer Space” about the role of AI in academics
Date: August 24, 2023
Faculty at the University of New Mexico are preparing for the impact of artificial intelligence for the upcoming academic year after professors weighed its benefits and risks at a Science, […]
Brynn Saito’s poem “Theses on the Philosophy of History” featured as Poem of the Day by Poetry Daily
Date: August 24, 2023
Theses on the Philosophy of History or Listening to the Presidential Debate While Stuck in Traffic Brynn Saito 1. Roads clog with people in vehicles crossing the Golden GateGive my rage […]
Good River Review features article by Lynnell Edwards, author of THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT!
Date: August 17, 2023
Poetry is having a moment. Yes, yes, we’ve heard this before—usually during National Poetry Month in April. Or the inauguration of a president or the selection of a new poet […]
Jessica Jopp discusses FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD on Monkeybike’s “If My Book” blog!
Date: August 16, 2023
“If From the Longing Orchard were a line from Shakespeare, it would be Polonius’ ‘To thine own self be true.'”
Shondaland features article ‘ChatGPT, Gary, and Me’ by Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME!
Date: August 15, 2023
A writer watched her husband become enthralled with AI technology, using it as an outlet for his own type of storytelling. But, ChatGPT’s — and his — penchant for violent […]
Raymond Luczak’s “Otters” featured on Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day!
Date: July 25, 2023
Afaa Weaver, author of A FIRE IN THE HILLS, wins the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award!
Date: July 20, 2023
At the Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA, poet Afaa Weaver will be the recipient of our New England Poetry Club’s prestigious Golden Rose Award. Last year’s winner was Patricia Smith.
Reviews:
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed by Seattle Book Review!
Date: July 7, 2022
Charlie, who has never found anything he doesn’t like to talk about, and Jignesh, a quiet, overweight East Indian business manager and embezzler, meet through a gay dating site. They […]
Novelist Kate Rounds reviews John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME!
Date: July 6, 2022
For three decades, the novelist and short story writer John Weir has been spooling out wry, wrenching narratives that ground us in time and place. Now, Red Hen Press has […]
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS Reviewed in The Arts Fuse!
Date: July 5, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s novel I Only Cry with Emoticons is a defense of the personal encounter. As technology has become more advanced, we have become increasingly reliant on communicating via screens. Emojis have […]
Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT reviewed by Poetry Foundation!
Date: June 29, 2022
Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear […]
THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT Receives Glowing Review by Mom Egg Review!
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed In Gay City News!
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE gets rave review in Southern Review of Books!
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Southern Review of Books features Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE!
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed on NY Journal of Books!
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
LARB Reviews Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE!
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]