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: May 23, 2023
In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it, and in doing so […]
Date: August 16, 2012
HK Rainey of Kelsey Street Press had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house – "In Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house, poems both jarring and lovely […]
Date: August 1, 2012
Rattle reviewer Eric Howard writes admiringly of Veronica Golos's lastest collection of poetry, Vocabulary of Silence: "Aligning herself with the nameless and the silent, Golos makes their story ours." To […]
Date: August 1, 2012
Writing for Politics and Prose Laurie Greer lauds the poetry of Eva Saulitis's newest collection Many Ways to Say It. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When […]
Date: August 1, 2012
In a recent publication, the Wisconsin Bookwatch had some kind words for David Matlin's latest novel. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When you go through life […]
Date: July 20, 2012
Kirkus Reviews says, "Barth recalls her youth and young adulthood with vivid detail and imagery. Though much of the book centers on her faith or life amid various faith traditions, […]
Date: July 20, 2012
Lori A. May for Rattle says of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise that, "And just as storms are beautiful from a distance, violent from within, and […]
Date: July 16, 2012
In a recent review, Publishers Weekly had some kind words for An Age of Madness, the new novel by acclaimed writer David Maine: "In the deftly sketched Regina, Maine has […]
Date: July 16, 2012
In his recent review on The Modern-Day Hitchhiker, Jason Aydelotte says that, "[Fade to Black] has got plenty of action, gore in all the right places without seeming too overblown, […]
Date: June 21, 2012
In a recent review in the Sugar House review, Liz Kay had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge – "Throughout the book, we’re treated to Trowbridge’s […]
Date: June 20, 2012
In the review entitled, 'Robert Sward releases his career collection,' Stephen Kessler acknowledges that Sward is Santa Cruz's "most nationally famous resident poet." To see the full review, please click
