Theresa Bonpane on the Bibliocracy Podcast on KPFK
Date: March 7, 2024
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News & Reviews
News:
MacLeish Sq. on the short list of the Somerset Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction
Date: February 29, 2024
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. Click here to read more.
Poem-a-Day features Allison Joseph’s “Incognito Grief: A Blues”!
Date: February 28, 2024
About this Poem “This poem is inspired by the great songwriter and American treasure Paul Simon. I was teaching one of my college poetry classes about the strength of the […]
David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS, featured on My Unsung Hero Podcast!
Date: February 28, 2024
A worker at a funeral home makes a special effort to locate the family members of an ailing woman, and unwittingly uncovers a family secret that goes back decades.
David Mas Masumoto discusses SECRET HARVESTS on KALW’s Your Call!
Date: February 28, 2024
On this edition of Your Call, David “Mas” Masumoto discusses his new memoir, Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm. It tells the story […]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram was named a 2024 Poetry Grantee by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Date: February 22, 2024
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is a poet and artist who explores innovative and experimental writing techniques. Her writing incorporates computation and artificial intelligence alongside more conventional literary forms, with her interdisciplinary work […]
Poets and Writers interviews Francisco Aragón of Letras Latinas
Date: February 15, 2024
In 2004, Francisco Aragón launched Letras Latinas under the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) at the University of Notre Dame. As the institute’s literary arm, Letras Latinas has a mission […]
Swordfights & Spaceflights features excerpt from Thea Prieto’s novella, FROM THE CAVES!
Date: February 14, 2024
Chapter One Sky hears no talking when Green leaves the sea cliffs. All he hears is the fog net snapping in the offshore wind, the whine of the plastic fabric […]
William Archila, author of THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHAEOLOGY, wins the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry!
Date: February 14, 2024
Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest, which includes a $2,000 award and publication of […]
Pioneer Press recommends adding Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE to your spring and summer reading list!
Date: February 14, 2024
Back in the day, books by popular authors were published in fall/winter. Not anymore, as proved by these forthcoming titles for spring and summer. We’ve got John Sandford, Leif Enger, […]
Reviews:
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed on NY Journal of Books!
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
LARB Reviews Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE!
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Life Elsewhere
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
URSULA LAKE gets shout out in Poet Runner podcast!
Date: May 24, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed by The Washington Post!
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
PLAINCHANT reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: May 17, 2022
URSULA LAKE reviewed in Five South!
Date: May 17, 2022
URSULA LAKE reviewed in Midwest Book Review!
Date: May 12, 2022
Kazim Ali’s NEW MOONS reviewed by World Literature Today!
Date: May 9, 2022
In his introduction to New Moons, a collection of poetry, fiction, and lyrical memoirs by Muslims in North America, Kazim Ali confesses the difficulty of embarking on an anthology that seeks […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: May 5, 2022