I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS author Yuvi Zalkow published a new essay!
Date: June 6, 2022
Disengaged…a story about my relationship to computers and the internet and social media, and also about my own insecurities with who I am.
News & Reviews
News:
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Lambda Literary’s “June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature”!
Date: June 6, 2022
The first Pride was a riot and this June, our fight persists. This month, we hope you’ll say gay (bi, lesbian, ace, trans, nonbinary, and more) and we’ve got some […]
Allison Joseph’s LEXICON Wins Poetry by the Sea Best Book of the Year Award!
Date: June 6, 2022
The judge’s remarks: Ned Balbo had this to say about his choice: I’m delighted to select Allison Joseph’s Lexicon as winner of Poetry by the Sea’s Best Book of 2021 […]
Kate Gale Interviewed for VoyageLA!
Date: June 6, 2022
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kate Gale. Hi Kate, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with […]
Adam Kirsch talks ‘Dead Poets Society’ and Artistic Expression for the Jewish Book Council!
Date: June 1, 2022
“The first critical essay I ever wrote was about the movie Dead Poets Society, which came out when I was fourteen. I wasn’t yet writing poetry myself, and I didn’t have any theories about why […]
David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, wrote for LARB!
Date: June 1, 2022
A society is only as healthy as its teachers. Ours, you might say, is in trouble, partly because our teachers often feel underappreciated and unseen. Yet most of us can […]
“Mosaic in Pompeii” by Diane Thiel featured in Verse Daily!
Date: June 1, 2022
Today’s poem is by Diane Thiel “A misunderstanding of a fresco,a figure with papyrus on the east wall.Someone assumed wrong two centuries ago,but the name remained—the House of the Tragic Poet.
URSULA LAKE author Charles Harper Webb interviewed by Poet Runner!
Date: June 1, 2022
Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, talks to the podcast, “Poet Runner.”
Author of SUBDUCTION Kristen Millares Young Interviewed on Bomb Magazine!
Date: June 1, 2022
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military […]
Gary Lemons featured on Postcards!
Date: May 31, 2022
Welcome to Postcards! Grandma loves this show!Today we enjoy a chat with—and some readings by—internationally recognized poet GARY LEMONS (Port Townsend, WA).In honor of National Poetry Month, Jenny sits down […]
Reviews:
‘As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: March 6, 2020
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review here!
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock reviewed by Full Stop!
Date: February 4, 2020
Islands provide fertile territory for utopian visions. For Thomas More, Utopia itself was an island, a self-enclosed little atoll just beyond the horizon where the best of all possible worlds […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS reviewed by bookstagrammer @bookynooky!
Date: October 31, 2019
PIGS takes place on an island on which all the Earth’s trash washes ashore. Four children must collect the trash (plastic, uneaten food, nuclear waste, unwanted advise, ect.) and feed […]
On the Seawall reviews PIGS by Johanna Stoberock!
Date: October 22, 2019
There’s a dreaminess to childhood rebellion, the moments when children viscerally understand that the adults don’t know what they are doing. Some of the most memorable moments in European arthouse […]
World Literature Today describes Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS as “incredibly moving, disheartening, disturbing, violent, and playful”!
Date: October 2, 2019
The island, from a distance, looks like almost anything other than what it actually is: a place where the world’s detritus washes up, a place where a handful of children […]
Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS reviewed by Booklist!
Date: September 15, 2019
In Stoberock’s extraordinarily imaginative novel, four children live on a desert island where all the world’s waste washes ashore. They are tasked with the arduous, abject, and unrelenting work of […]
Wisconsin Bookwatch calls PIGS by Johanna Stoberock “a superbly crafted and thoroughly reader absorbing novel”!
Date: September 10, 2019
Synopsis: Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world’s garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a […]
The Rumpus calls Johanna Stoberock’s PIGS a “beautiful and unsettling novel”!
Date: August 28, 2019
In the popular imagination, pigs simply exist to consume and to be consumed. We revile them because they are seen as gluttonous animals, indiscriminate in their pursuit for satiation, and […]
PIGS by Johanna Stoberock reviewed by Foreword Reviews!
Date: August 1, 2019
Six giant pigs, four kids, and a gang of adults on a magical island maintain a tenuous balance of power until two castaways show up in Johanna Stoberock’s probing literary […]
2018 Fall/Winter Reading List
Date: October 3, 2018
It’s 1923 and 19-year-old Dara falls in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl. To avoid a bleak, terrifying future in their small town, Dara takes […]