Jessica Jopp discusses FROM THE LONGING ORCHARD on Monkeybike’s “If My Book” blog!
Date: August 16, 2023
“If From the Longing Orchard were a line from Shakespeare, it would be Polonius’ ‘To thine own self be true.'”
News & Reviews
News:
Shondaland features article ‘ChatGPT, Gary, and Me’ by Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME!
Date: August 15, 2023
A writer watched her husband become enthralled with AI technology, using it as an outlet for his own type of storytelling. But, ChatGPT’s — and his — penchant for violent […]
Raymond Luczak’s “Otters” featured on Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day!
Date: July 25, 2023
Afaa Weaver, author of A FIRE IN THE HILLS, wins the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award!
Date: July 20, 2023
At the Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA, poet Afaa Weaver will be the recipient of our New England Poetry Club’s prestigious Golden Rose Award. Last year’s winner was Patricia Smith.
Jade Shyback discusses AQUEOUS with CBC Radio host Margaret Gallagher!
Date: July 11, 2023
Debut novel Aqueous by author Jade Shyback captures young imaginations Aqueous is a Young Adult thriller set on the brink of the Earth’s collapse…which sends young Marisol Blaise to live […]
Electric Literature recommends David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS!
Date: July 10, 2023
When David Mas Masumoto is contacted by a stranger regarding his maternal aunt Shizuko, he is at first slightly confused. From family, he has only heard whispers of Shizuko, who […]
Afaa Weaver’s A FIRE IN THE HILLS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
In A Fire in the Hills (Red Hen, Apr.), Afaa Weaver seeks to define himself in relation to his environment, particularly as a Black man in the United States.
Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS featured in the Library Journal!
Date: July 10, 2023
…novelist Laila Halaby’s The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen, Sept.), about her 21-year-old son’s death at a time of national upheaval.
Mark Gozonsky shouts-out Kim Dower in LA TIMES list of ’13 chill L.A. parks for when you want to do absolutely nothing’!
Date: June 29, 2023
Loafing is the most popular lesson of my 20-year teaching career. I got the idea from Walt Whitman, who writes in “Song of Myself”: I loafe and invite my soul, […]
Lara Ehrlich featured in the Connecticut Examiner!
Date: June 28, 2023
STONINGTON — In a dark green, cozy room decorated with icons, books, poetry and antiques, Lara Ehrlich sat at a large table, while her puppy, Cocoa, slept in a chair […]
Reviews:
Anne Yale reviews Becoming Judas
Date: August 30, 2013
Anne Yale from Voice in the Wilderness admits that she "could not put down" Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "A fascinating foray into iconographic studies, Becoming Judas examines, interprets, questions, challenges, […]
Oxford American loves The Forage House
Date: August 21, 2013
Camille Guillot from Oxford American praises the "curated mood of a small museum" present in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Tikkun’s take on Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: August 21, 2013
Anna Challet from Tikkun discusses the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "…each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, […]
Atticus Review applauds Spoke & Dark
Date: August 21, 2013
Sandy Longhorn from Atticus Review praises the language and layers of meaning found in the poems of Carolyn Guinzio's Spoke & Dark.– "Spoke & Dark requires much of the reader, […]
Parnucklian for Chocolate featured on Forever Young Adult
Date: August 14, 2013
Brian Katcher from Forever Young Adult discusses the "unique" writing style in B.H. James' Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "If this book had been presented to me as a recently discovered, unpublished […]
NewPages reviews Parnucklian for Chocolate
Date: August 14, 2013
Courtney McDermott from NewPages comments on B.H. James' "inventive" first novel, Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "In stark, self-conscious language, the author navigates parenting, psychiatric facilities, and what it means to not […]
Burn This House praised in Contrary Magazine
Date: August 1, 2013
Lee Gulyas from Contrary Magazine applauds Kelly Davio's use of "the lens and language of religion to question existence, family, and herself" in the poems of Burn This House.- "Don't […]
Hyphen Magazine praises Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: July 25, 2013
Noah Cho from Hyphen Magazine applauds the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Each of the thirteen stories has a distinct tone and flavor….for Lam, that risk of […]
Publishers Weekly reviews When Rain Hurts
Date: July 25, 2013
Publishers Weekly comments on the remarkable story found in Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.– "With vivid language and strong imagery, [Greene] describes the harsh deprivations characteristic of Russia's orphanages, […]
Kirkus features When Rain Hurts
Date: July 19, 2013
Check out the August issue of Kirkus to read their take on Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.- "A searingly candid chronicle of the heroic struggle of two adoptive parents […]