Date: February 7, 2023
Poet and urban historian Dolores Hayden reflects on how the dramatic spectacle of early aviation provided a bird’s eye view of 20th-century urban expansion.
Date: January 30, 2023
an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions I am a bodyof ghost—haint-kin cloakedin earthen flesh
Date: January 30, 2023
Alyssa Graybeal has written this frank memoir about her life with the rare genetic connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and its effects on her body, her queerness, her aging, her […]
Date: January 30, 2023
“17 Small Press Books from 2022 that You Might Have Missed” includes Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love by Carlos Allende. “Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love plays with the tropes of crime fiction by […]
Date: January 25, 2023
Black music—funk, soul, disco—from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, coupled with the love shared by his parents, set the rhythm and inspiration for this collection, Douglas Manuel’s second after Testify, […]
Date: January 24, 2023
What draws us to the outdoors? Marybeth Holleman is an Alaskan writer who’s new book of poetry, titled tender gravity, expresses many reasons. Marybeth is a long time Alaskan whose […]
Date: January 4, 2023
Cai Emmons, novelist and playwright, was furiously busy in the months leading up to her death Monday at age 71. But she might well be best remembered for a blog […]
Date: January 3, 2023
David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington, and has lived in many parts of the world, including Greece and Colorado, where he served as Colorado Poet Laureate for four years. He is […]
Date: December 14, 2022
Following her recent Vincent Scully Prize win, the architect and urban historian spoke with Metropolis about the infrastructure of care, material feminists, and aviation poetry.
Date: December 5, 2022
Art surrounds us especially at this time of year. The colors, the sounds, the aromas, the lights, the music, the images — it’s the season of art that is woven […]
Date: April 1, 2025
I have a bad habit when reading books – always starting by opening the last page and reading the last line, then closing the book to see what my mind […]
Date: April 1, 2025
Andrew Lam’s Stories from the Edge of the Sea is reviewed by Paul Christiansen in Saigoneer, an English-language publication based in Saigon. The review highlights Lam’s focus on “desire, generational […]
Date: March 18, 2025
Poetry collection We by April Ossmann is reviewed by Rena Mosteirin in Daybreak. “Inside this collection, the poet succeeds in showing us what beauty means to tell us, through small, […]
Date: March 12, 2025
Nancy Kricorian’s The Burning Heart of the World is reviewed by Susan Cox in Library Journal. “This is a fast-moving, relatable story that would be a good addition to a […]
Date: March 4, 2025
Short stories examine lives shaped by the Vietnamese refugee experience. Lam and his family fled Vietnam in April, 1975, when he just 11 years old. While the stories in this […]
Date: February 26, 2025
Kim Dower’s latest poetry collection What She Wants is reivewed by Vick Mickunas in Journal-News. In the review, Mickunas highlights the collection’s ability to provide a literary refuge, stating: “Whenever […]
Date: February 24, 2025
Even when the return is to unlivable conditions with no protection from any type of law, displaced people returning home is something to celebrate. The connection one has to one’s […]
Date: February 3, 2025
Between its quiet swells of suspense, Blood on the Brain is an interior and intimate story about a young woman navigating identity and adulthood. Bediako concludes this strong and spirited […]
Date: January 29, 2025
Eleanor J. Bader recommends The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian, describing it as “a beautiful, sad, and timely look at the aftermath of war and its lasting […]
Date: January 28, 2025
Blood Wolf Moon reflects a poet at the height of her powers, yet it remains accessible to a wide audience and will especially be valued by Osages. Readers will find […]
