News:

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 […]

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 […]

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Reviews:

Kenyon Review: After Rubén

Date: June 4, 2020

A champion of contemporary Latinx poetry, Francisco Aragón returns with his third collection, After Rubén (Red Hen Press). A scholar, translator, and the son of Nicaraguan immigrants, Aragón draws inspiration from the life […]

Shelf Awareness: Moon Jar review

Date: June 4, 2020

In her moving debut collection, poet Didi Jackson creates a poetics of grief to cope with the suicide of her husband. Moon Jar is a testament to resilience. Split into three […]

Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy

Date: June 3, 2020

1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]

Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy

Date: June 3, 2020

Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]

Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu

Date: June 3, 2020

Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]

Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review

Date: June 3, 2020

Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]

Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole

Date: June 3, 2020

Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]

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