The San Diego-Union Tribune listed I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM as an anticipated Spring release!
Date: March 31, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Kim Stafford exhibit opens at Lewis & Clark College!
Date: March 31, 2022
Kim Stafford’s archive at Lewis & Clark College isn’t about him. It’s about everyone else. In curating the collection of his life’s work — poems, essays, stories, songs, letters and […]
I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS and NEW MOONS listed on Matt Witt’s World Wide Work: films, books, and music you may have missed!
Date: March 29, 2022
Here’s the latest World Wide Work update on films, books, and music you may have missed.
Gary Lemons interviewed on Behind the Vision podcast!
Date: March 29, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Lemons to talk about his quartet series, Snake. Check out our first interview, where we talk about Gary’s background and book one in […]
Thea Prieto, Sadie Hoagland, and Beth Gilstrap all listed as Foreword Indie Awards finalists!
Date: March 17, 2022
Carl Marcum’s poetry featured in WPSU!
Date: March 8, 2022
Poetry Moment on WPSU is a program featuring the work of contemporary Pennsylvania poets. Host Shara McCallum is this year’s Penn State Laureate.
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY poems featured in Poetry in Sounds contest!
Date: March 3, 2022
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s poems were selected as part of the Poetry in Sound project from Navier records, a monthly contest that invites musicians worldwide to make a song inspired by […]
Carol Becker Interviewed for Los Angeles Review of Books!
Date: March 1, 2022
THIS IS THE 56th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Carol Becker, professor of arts and dean […]
Charles Harper Webb guest wrote for Psychology Today!
Date: February 24, 2022
My first memory of kindergarten is when I’d made an airplane by crossing two thin cylinders of modeling clay. As I “flew” my plane around the room, a bigger boy with a […]
Thea Prieto featured in CRAFT!
Date: February 22, 2022
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 […]