Date: April 30, 2025
I Was a Bell by M. Soledad Caballero is featured in Electric Literature’s list, “8 Debut Poetry Collections by Poets Over 40.” The list celebrates the unique power of debuting […]
Date: April 30, 2025
Abi Pollokoff is highlighted as Poet of the Week by Brooklyn Poets. The feature includes her poem “lilies & these eroded” from night myths • • before the body, alongside […]
Date: April 30, 2025
Molly Olguín’s latest release, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, has been selected by WFAE as one of the week’s Revolutionary readings. Reviewer Colin Dwyer describes the book as “dark, […]
Date: April 29, 2025
KQED features Andrew Lam on its Perspectives series, where he reflects on the enduring memories of the Vietnam War.
Date: April 29, 2025
Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. She serves on the board of directors for and works with the Latine/x community nationwide, promoting the […]
Date: April 29, 2025
“Blood Wolf Moon” begins with a long poem called “Heritage,” which consists of a bracelet of poems modelled after a crown of sonnets. At one stage, the long poem was […]
Date: April 29, 2025
The Orange County Register spotlights several Vietnamese American artists, including Andrew Lam, who shares his personal story of fleeing Vietnam for the United States as a child just before the […]
Date: April 24, 2025
CHICAGO (WGN) — Some believe destiny is whispered through the wind. Among the tall grass of Oklahoma’s Osage Tribal Reservation, many stories slip between its reeds. Some stories are about wealth, […]
Date: April 23, 2025
Andrew Lam is interviewed in Metro Silicon Valley’s article, “A Half-Century After Saigon’s Fall, the Diaspora Writes On.” In the conversation, Lam reflects on how writing has been a therapeutic […]
Date: April 22, 2025
by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty and associate programs director On the eve of the Kentucky Book Festival last November, a novelist friend came up to me at the writer’s reception […]
Date: June 30, 2025
Twelve years ago, Andrew Lam, a writer and journalist who left Vietnam as “a plane person” at the end of the Vietnam War at the age of eleven, published Birds of Paradise […]
Date: June 18, 2025
In Stories from the Edges of the Sea, Andrew Lam writes not from the center of trauma but from its quieter afterlives. These are not conventional Vietnamese refugee stories. They emerge […]
Date: June 17, 2025
The stories in The Sea Gives Up the Dead, Molly Olguín’s debut collection, are remarkable for the ways in which they skate between the weird and the mundane, the ordinary and […]
Date: June 12, 2025
In her second poetry collection, Didi Jackson shifts among lyrical strategies, sometimes earthy and elsewhere mystical. An assistant professor at Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University, she spends part of the year in […]
Date: May 27, 2025
The relationship between Ceto—a siren who left her sisters and the ocean behind—and her 15-year-old daughter, Naia, is tested when Sirenland, their seaside burlesque attraction, is threatened by the untimely […]
Date: May 22, 2025
In James, Percival Everett’s National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the character James writes, “With my pencil, I wrote myself into being. I wrote myself to here.” By doing […]
Date: April 23, 2025
MBR Bookwatch features a review of Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection, What She Wants, written by Mary Cowper. “Her word smithing, poetry based storytelling skills are truly impressive.”
Date: April 22, 2025
Scott Simon joins Nancy Kricorian for a conversation about her novel The Burning Heart of the World. Simon praised the book as “a wonderful novel … tough and moving”.
Date: April 22, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s latest novel, The Burning Heart of the World, is a powerfully spare, poetic evocation of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War (1975−1990) and its long-term impact on one Armenian family living in Beirut. It’s the […]
Date: April 22, 2025
“In this graceful, assured, and incandescent collection, Paschen explores her relationship with her mother, the trailblazing Osage prima ballerina Maria Tallchief, and her mother’s life and family, while also delving into Osage […]
