Ra Malika Imhotep, Author of GOSSYPIIN, Featured on poem-a-day by the Academy of American Poets!
Date: January 30, 2023
an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions I am a bodyof ghost—haint-kin cloakedin earthen flesh
News & Reviews
News:
Ms. Magazine features FLOPPY in a list of “The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2023”
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 […]
Electric Lit spotlights COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE
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 […]
TROUBLE FUNK by Douglas Manuel Featured in the Upcoming March/April Issue of Foreword Reviews!
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, […]
Marybeth Holleman discusses TENDER GRAVITY on Outdoor Explorer!
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 […]
Lorraine Berry Publishes a Tribute to Cai Emmons, Author of LIVID, in The LA Times
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 […]
David Mason discusses PACIFIC LIGHT in Interview with the Colorado Poet
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 […]
Dolores Hayden Author of EXUBERANCE Interviewed in Metropolis Magazine!
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.
David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS, Discusses His Forthcoming Book in the Fresno Bee!
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 […]
About Place Journal Features Three Poems by William Archila, Author of THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHAEOLOGY!
Date: December 5, 2022
My anger is a burnt match on a blanket of snow. My anger resembles the songsmith shredding his songs. I don’t get it why conquest is another word for foreign […]
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: November 19, 2024
“I am good with secrets,” Jackson confesses early in her subtle latest (after Moon Jar). She makes good on that statement in poems that detail the secrets of the departed, including […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
In My Infinity (Red Hen Press), Didi Jackson employs a lyrical grace and intimate tone as she seeks transcendence, even while acknowledging that not all wounds may heal. She explores personal concessions […]
World Literature Today reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon Jar, was published in 2020), but it reads like […]
The Manhattan Review reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS
Date: October 15, 2024
Blue Atlas is an absorbing and heart-wrenching collection that revolves around the poet’s decision, thirty years back, to have an abortion rather than go full term with an unplanned pregnancy. As […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Thomas McGuire’s THE CURVE OF EQUAL TIME
Date: October 15, 2024
Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first By Nancy Lord Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024 “The Curve of Equal Time” By […]
North of Oxford reviews THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT by Lynnell Edwards
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]
Hyperallergic reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]
The Florida Review Online reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Poetry Foundation reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”