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:
Sarah Leamy reviews Doug Lawson’s Big Foots in Paradise
Date: June 6, 2018
In her recent review of Doug Lawson's Big Foots in Paradise on her website, Sarah Leamy says that, "Doug Lawson Writes with confidence and his prose is lyrical, poetic and […]
UCR Today Reviews The Wilderness
Date: May 2, 2018
"'The Wilderness' broaches subjects both infinite and infinitesimal, contemplating cosmic forces and commas on an equal scale," writes Jessica Weber of UCR Today in this review and interview with Maurya […]
Crosstown Mentioned in a Blog from New Zealand
Date: March 29, 2018
Loren W. Cooper's CrossTown is getting great visibility. An excerpt of the book is quoted in
JMWW Circadian Review
Date: March 27, 2018
"This book is fearless, even in its confrontation of fear and trauma." Great review by Amelia White of JMWW on Chelsey Clammer's Circadian. Read the full review
US Review of Books praises Circadian
Date: March 14, 2018
Chelsea Clammer is praised for Circadian by the US Review of Books. They write, "In this volume, the author proves that no topic is taboo, especially with the right choice […]
Notes from a Crusty Seeker, Betsy Robinson on BAD STORIES
Date: February 23, 2018
The "bad" reviews keep rolling in for Steve Almond's BAD STORIES! "Staggeringly good. . . This is straight journalism at its best."—Betsy Robinson Read here full review
The Hippies Were Fucking Right
Date: February 23, 2018
Congratulations to Steve Almond for his first newspaper feature for BAD STORIES on PORTLAND MERCURY. Read the review here!
Midwest Book Review praises Eat Less Water
Date: February 21, 2018
The Midwest Book Review describes Florencia Ramirez's Eat Less Water as "an extraordinary and life-changing read that is very highly recommended." Thanks Midwest Book Review! Check out the full review
Midwest Book Review loves CrossTown!
Date: February 18, 2018
“An impressively original and deftly scripted novel by an author with a genuine flair for imaginative and narrative driven storytelling, “CrossTown” is an expressly and unreservedly recommended as an addition […]
Shining Rock Poetry reviews In June the Labyrinth
Date: February 14, 2018
Cynthia Hogue, author of In June the Labyrinth, receives a truly laudatory review by the Shining Rock Poetry Anthology, which calls the book "a masterly creation," among other things. Thank […]