News:

Eleanor Wilner interviewed for Harvard Review Online!

Date: February 15, 2022

Eleanor Wilner, recipient of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, published her first book of poetry when she was forty-two. She has […]

Diane Thiel interviewed for DailyLobo.com!

Date: February 15, 2022

In a digital age, classic romantic gestures can go a long way, especially during the month of love. Two University of New Mexico creative writing professors sat down with the Daily […]

Joan Nockels Wilson is a guest on Speaker’s Forum!

Date: February 3, 2022

This episode of Speakers Forum centers around three very different experiences of childhood sexual abuse. However, all three guests consider the responsibility of caregivers to prevent abuse and the difficulty […]

Maurya Simon essay featured in Press Enterprise

Date: February 1, 2022

Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as an eel. It latches itself onto strong emotions like fear, anger, or surprise and it won’t let go. Up until adolescence, children often […]

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Reviews:

The Hudred Fathom Curve in The Midwest Book Review

Date: October 3, 2011

In August 2011 The Midwest Book Review's Wisconsin Bookwatch wrote about John Barr's book of poems. "The Hundred Fathom Curve is John Barr's exploration of Americana from the perspectives of […]

Sasha West’s review of Cold Angel of Mercy

Date: October 3, 2011

Poet Sasha West examines the language of Amy Randolph in Randolph's book Cold Angel of Mercy. "Randolph's crisp, searing voice is evident in her facility with image." —Sasha West

The Hudson Review looks at Ship of Fool

Date: October 3, 2011

In the sixty-fourth volume of The Hudson Review, Peter Makuck praises William Trowbridge's book, Ship of Fool. "William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool had me laughing out loud . . . […]

Fred Chapel reviews The Owning Stone

Date: September 30, 2011

“My favorite poems here include the title poem about a talisman stone that emblemizes the omnipresence of past time, ‘Something Old,’ ‘Someone’s Father,’ the bitterly ironic ‘Fish to Fry,’ ‘Trucks […]

Stephen Dobyns

Date: August 2, 2011

“At first glance Jim Tilley’s In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]

From Publishers Weekly

Date: August 1, 2011

In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]

Booklist loves The Last Jewish Virgin

Date: July 31, 2011

Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]

Claudia Emerson reviews In Confidence

Date: July 31, 2011

In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]

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