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:
Kirkus Reviews includes Andrew Lam’s STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF THE SEA to their April Edition
Date: March 4, 2025
Short stories examine lives shaped by the Vietnamese refugee experience. Lam and his family fled Vietnam in April, 1975, when he just 11 years old. While the stories in this […]
Journal-News reviews WHAT SHE WANTS by Kim Dower
Date: February 26, 2025
Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection What She Wants is reivewed by Vick Mickunas in Journal-News. In the review, Mickunas highlights the collection’s ability to provide a literary refuge, stating: “Whenever […]
The Mirror Spectator Reviews THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD by Nancy Kricorian
Date: February 24, 2025
Even when the return is to unlivable conditions with no protection from any type of law, displaced people returning home is something to celebrate. The connection one has to one’s […]
Rain Taxi reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: February 3, 2025
Between its quiet swells of suspense, Blood on the Brain is an interior and intimate story about a young woman navigating identity and adulthood. Bediako concludes this strong and spirited […]
NewPages features a review of Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD
Date: January 29, 2025
Eleanor J. Bader recommends The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian, describing it as “a beautiful, sad, and timely look at the aftermath of war and its lasting […]
Osage News reviews BLOOD WOLF MOON by Elise Paschen
Date: January 28, 2025
Blood Wolf Moon reflects a poet at the height of her powers, yet it remains accessible to a wide audience and will especially be valued by Osages. Readers will find […]
The Washington Post recommended Kim Dower’s new collection WHAT SHE WANTS
Date: January 22, 2025
Book critic Ron Charles recommended Kim Dower’s new collection, What She Wants, in the Washington Post Book Club and included the poem ‘Longing’ in the weekly selection.
THE NEW YORK TIMES reviews FOUR Percival Everett Collections!
Date: December 16, 2024
Huge thanks to book critic Dwight Garner for your thorough, generous review of Percival Everett’s poetry collections, including re:f (gesture), The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson, Sonnets for […]
NH Librarians Recommend MEMENTO MORI by Eunice Hong on CHECK THIS OUT at NHPR!
Date: December 12, 2024
This episode of “Check This Out” from New Hampshire Public Radio features local librarians discussing their favorite books of 2024! This to the full episode to hear what they thought […]
The Gay and Lesbian Review reviews Jason Schneiderman’s SELF PORTRAIT OF ICARUS AS A COUNTRY ON FIRE
Date: December 3, 2024
AS A POET AGES, he’s often faced with several choices. He can keep doing what he has always done, or he can, by seriously confronting himself, seek another voice. Jason […]