Raymond Luczak’s “Otters” featured on Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day!
Date: July 25, 2023
News & Reviews
News:
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.
Jade Shyback discusses AQUEOUS with CBC Radio host Margaret Gallagher!
Date: July 11, 2023
Debut novel Aqueous by author Jade Shyback captures young imaginations Aqueous is a Young Adult thriller set on the brink of the Earth’s collapse…which sends young Marisol Blaise to live […]
Electric Literature recommends David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS!
Date: July 10, 2023
When David Mas Masumoto is contacted by a stranger regarding his maternal aunt Shizuko, he is at first slightly confused. From family, he has only heard whispers of Shizuko, who […]
Afaa Weaver’s A FIRE IN THE HILLS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
In A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen, Apr.), Afaa Weaver seeks to define himself in relation to his environment, particularly as a Black man in the United States.
Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
…novelist Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen, Sept.), about her 21-year-old son’s death at a time of national upheaval.
Mark Gozonsky shouts-out Kim Dower in LA TIMES list of ’13 chill L.A. parks for when you want to do absolutely nothing’!
Date: June 29, 2023
Loafing is the most popular lesson of my 20-year teaching career. I got the idea from Walt Whitman, who writes in “Song of Myself”: I loafe and invite my soul, […]
Lara Ehrlich featured in the Connecticut Examiner!
Date: June 28, 2023
STONINGTON — In a dark green, cozy room decorated with icons, books, poetry and antiques, Lara Ehrlich sat at a large table, while her puppy, Cocoa, slept in a chair […]
Soapberry Review features conversation with David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS!
Date: June 27, 2023
In 1942, a Japanese American family relinquishes their daughter to the state to protect her from being sent to forced relocation camps during the war. Seventy years later, her nephew […]
Jessica Jopp, author of FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD, featured in Indiana Gazette ‘LOCAL PRIDE’ article!
Date: June 27, 2023
“Reverence for the natural world provides her comfort, as does her fierce attachment to her sister and her parents’ poignant guidance. But it is the intimacy with another young woman […]
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 […]