Date: June 12, 2023
MacLeish Sq., Dennis Must’s curiously appealing new novel, takes the reader through the obscure final act of a man’s life. The main character, sixty-nine-year-old John Proctor, buys an old farmhouse on […]
Date: June 12, 2023
Seventeen years ago, June was officially designated as National Caribbean Heritage Month in the United States. Who better to help us celebrate than Donna Hemans? Born and raised in Jamaica, […]
Date: June 12, 2023
The Boxer of Quirinal (Red Hen Press, 80 pp. $22, paper) is a new collection of John Barr’s poems. Barr, a former president of the Poetry Foundation, served as a Navy […]
Date: June 8, 2023
New & Upcoming Indie Releases to Add to Your Reading List. FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD Eighteen-year-old Sonya Hudson has been gripped by phobia since she was thirteen. What would make […]
Date: June 7, 2023
UCSD Ph.D. student Phuong T. Vuong just released A Plucked Zither, a beautiful and haunting collection of poems that spans space and time. In particular, she explores the dichotomy of making a […]
Date: June 1, 2023
History of Desire I. In the photographmy mother is ten;she poses in a ruffled dressand hand-me-down coatthat swallows her armsthe way shame swallowspeople whole. Lost in the oversize. Standingnear a […]
Date: June 1, 2023
Poemas de William Archila, estos poemas forman parte del libro “The Gravedigger’s Archaeology” (Red Hen Press, 2015), ahora traducidos al español por el poeta Mario Zetino en exclusiva para Revista […]
Date: May 30, 2023
I’m Jason Schneiderman, and this is The Slowdown. My little brother was a very cute and very happy baby. In all the baby pictures of him, he has an enormous and […]
Date: May 23, 2023
#AuthorInterview | Ask debut novelist Jade Shyback a question “…Novelist Jade Shyback has had many lives that I find just completely fascinating. And now is your chance to join the conversation and ask her a question. I’m going […]
Date: May 23, 2023
By Maurya Simon | Contributing Columnist During National Poetry Month in April 2013, I taught poetry to students at Mt. Baldy School. It was a great experience, and, ultimately, their hard work […]
Date: April 1, 2025
I have a bad habit when reading books – always starting by opening the last page and reading the last line, then closing the book to see what my mind […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Andrew Lam’s Stories from the Edge of the Sea is reviewed by Paul Christiansen in Saigoneer, an English-language publication based in Saigon. The review highlights Lam’s focus on “desire, generational […]
Date: March 18, 2025
Poetry collection We by April Ossmann is reviewed by Rena Mosteirin in Daybreak. “Inside this collection, the poet succeeds in showing us what beauty means to tell us, through small, […]
Date: March 12, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World is reviewed by Susan Cox in Library Journal. “This is a fast-moving, relatable story that would be a good addition to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
