Charles Harper Webb featured article in Psychology Today!
Date: April 21, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Tess Taylor featured poem in The Nation!
Date: April 21, 2022
Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY listed as one of Early Bird Books’ “Best Book Club Books!”
Date: April 14, 2022
Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT author Khalisa Rae wins Best Poet at the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards!
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Douglas Kearney interviewed on Commonplace Podcast!
Date: April 12, 2022
Dear Listener, For this, our 99th episode, Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, and professor Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. This conversation, recorded in early November 2021, has been a long time […]
Kim Dower is a guest on The Kathryn Zox Show!
Date: April 12, 2022
Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four […]
Brynn Saito writes for Poetry Society of Ameria!
Date: April 7, 2022
In 2003, I was a pre-med undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and taking poetry classes on the side—totally scattered, that is to say: lost, alive, lonely, and away […]
Kim Dower interviewed on Author2Author for Blog Talk Radio!
Date: April 7, 2022
Bill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, described by […]
John Weir interviewed for Bay Area Reporter!
Date: April 7, 2022
If patience is a virtue, then fans of award-winning gay writer John Weir are among the most virtuous people you will ever find. Weir won a Lambda Literary Award for […]
Elizabeth Bradfield, author of TOWARD ANTARTICA, interviewed by Brandeis Now!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elizabeth Bradfield, professor of creative writing, is the author of five poetry books. When she isn’t publishing her stories or encouraging students to write their own, she can be found outside, leading whale […]
Reviews:
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 4, 2022
A socially awkward tech worker grapples with his impending divorce, his relationship with his young son, and his struggle to create human connections in a tech-driven world.
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: March 17, 2022
Weir’s linked collection of bittersweet, often witty stories elucidates almost 50 years in the life of a gay White man in the U.S., from enduring school taunts in 1970s New […]
FROM THE CAVES reviewed in The Rupture!
Date: March 1, 2022
The cover art of Thea Prieto’s debut novella coupled with its title, From the Caves, invited this reviewer immediately to consider Plato’s famed Allegory of the Cave. Plato’s fire, however, […]
Frank Soos’ THE GETTING PLACE reviewed in Anchorage Daily News!
Date: February 22, 2022
Readers and writers in Alaska and beyond are grieving the loss of Frank Soos, a beloved emeritus professor from the University of Alaska and Alaska’s Writer Laureate from 2014-16, who […]
Sadie Hoagland’s STRANGE CHILDREN reviewed in the Harvard Review Online!
Date: February 15, 2022
In Sadie Hoagland’s debut novel, Strange Children, eight young narrators struggle to navigate two very different worlds. Some are exiled to the lurid, modern American city, with its microwave dinners, senseless […]
AMERICAN BASTARD by Jan Beatty reviewed in International Swans!
Date: February 3, 2022
We are taught that a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. We are taught that a girl who ventures on a quest to find her lost parents […]
DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES by Beth Gilstrap reviewed in Necessary Fiction!
Date: February 1, 2022
Deadheading, the practice of pruning dead flower heads in order to preserve the plant, provides Beth Gilstrap with a rich metaphor around which to organize her new story collection. The […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed for Delmarva Review!
Date: January 24, 2022
DIANE THIEL’S WORK has always asked fundamental and human questions. Janet Holmes, reviewing Thiel’s first book, Echolocations, notes that Thiel’s work deals with “silences, evasions, loss, and omissions.” This third […]
Lily Hoang’s UNDERNEATH reviewed in Patch!
Date: January 18, 2022
In a word, wow! We know how it ends and yet we still find it mesmerizing. We know she kills all four of her children but we read on to […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly!
Date: January 11, 2022
Weir (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket) returns with a searing collection of stories about death from the perspective of a gay man who survived the AIDS epidemic. The unnamed […]