Date: May 3, 2023
David van den Berg, author of “Love Letters from an Arsonist,” recommends raw and unflinchingly honest poems about the American South
Date: May 3, 2023
A California author and multi-generational peach farmer has penned a moving and revealing memoir about family, loss, secrets, survival and the unearthing of a painful past stemming from an unexpected […]
Date: May 3, 2023
Best known for Epitaph for a Peach (a Julia Child Cookbook Award winner and James Beard Foundation Food Writing Award finalist), David “Mas” Masumoto is a third generation, Sansei, organic farmer of peaches, nectarines, […]
Date: May 1, 2023
“Every family has secrets,” says David Mas Masumoto. “secrets that needto be told.” Find the full article in the April 21-May 4, 2023 print issue and stay tuned for the […]
Date: April 26, 2023
Date: April 26, 2023
By Diana Arterian The poet Douglas Manuel’s debut poetry collection Testify follows the topic so many of us (this poet included) attend to first: family. Testify attended to the stark realities of Manuel’s childhood […]
Date: April 25, 2023
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: I want to do my […]
Date: April 11, 2023
“Yesterday my wife and I watched the Dead Can Dance live DVD “Toward the Within,” filmed on their 1993 American tour. I’d seen them prior in 1990, and then again […]
Date: April 5, 2023
Jack Hazard ‘23 Fellows are writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, or memoir. The $5,000 fellowship is awarded in support of an ongoing project. The goal is to reward and incentivize […]
Date: April 5, 2023
“Scholars say El Salvador” by William Archila Scholars say El Salvador fits the cliché of a Latin American country;broke, pocket-size, but applauded in aristocracy. It’s your typicalbanana republic, except there […]
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
