Two Poems by Abi Pollokoff in Seattle Met
Date: July 24, 2025
particular reminders when prayers for the body aren’t enough when dusty purple fruits breathe inthe sunsets & smog of their cityscapes: […]
News & Reviews
News:
The Verse Daily Feature of DARK SUITE FOR MY COUNTRY by April Ossmann!
Date: July 22, 2025
Dark Suite for My Country I. Dark as an overcast night,licorice, ink, ravens, outer space.Let me see the beautyin crows mowing silencelike hundred rusty tractors,or a crowd […]
Meet Wisconsin’s Newest Poet Laureate Brenda Cárdenas: Milwaukee Magazine
Date: July 17, 2025
As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity through ekphrastic poetry. This form of poetry invites people to pen a creative response to […]
Rebecca Chase Featured on Lit Hub: A Daughter’s Journey to Japan In Search of Closure
Date: July 16, 2025
In the window seat in economy class, I turn my face to the glass so the woman next to me can pretend she doesn’t notice that I’m crying. She’s sitting […]
An Episode with Kim Dower on Writer to Writer KRBX Radio Boise
Date: July 8, 2025
Writer to Writer, a monthly radio show airs on the first Sunday of each month on Radio Boise’s Stray Theater. The show is hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. […]
Thank you, Massachusetts Review, for this great shout out for Elise Paschen’s latest collection!
Date: July 8, 2025
Elise Paschen’s latest collection is Blood Wolf Moon, our from Red Hen. Her poem “Heritage” appeared in our A GATHERING OF NATIVE VOICES issue back in 2020…
April Ossmann’s WE Featured in The Washington Post’s Newsletter
Date: July 7, 2025
April Ossmann, a former executive director of Alice James Books, has published a timely collection simply and optimistically called “We.” It’s a stirring effort to heal America’s deadly political conflicts with […]
The Orange County Register’s 33 New Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer From Independent Publishers: ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura
Date: July 7, 2025
It’s the perfect time of the year to celebrate our independents. By that, we mean independent presses — the small publishers powered by literary true believers, committed to putting out curated works that […]
ANGEL EYE by Madeleine Nakamura Featured in Book Riot’s List of The 6 Best Dark Academia Books for Romance Readers
Date: July 1, 2025
Dark academia and romance is a genre mash-up that’s meant to be. The heightened suspense gives characters a reason to rely on each other and form close bonds… if they […]
Peter Ulrich Recalls the First European Tour of Dead Can Dance with The Quietus
Date: June 30, 2025
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in […]
Reviews:
From New West: Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative “Bone Light”
Date: February 3, 2011
Orlando White Explores Navajo Identity Through Language in Innovative “Bone Light”The first book of poetry by Orlando White offers unexpected innovations.By Alex Young, Guest Writer, 1-28-11 Bone Lightby Orlando WhiteRed […]
From The Republican: Bitten by the writing bug””
Date: February 3, 2011
Bitten by the writing bugSunday, January 30, 2011By RITA MARKSThis week's release of Ellen Meeropol's debut novel, "House Arrest," marks a major milestone in her career as a writer. Most […]
A Review to Die For!
Date: January 24, 2011
Ron Slate reviews New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly!"The poem features the Horatian qualities one associates with Matthews…"The rest of Slate's […]
Janice Eidus is a Midwest Success in 2011
Date: January 12, 2011
Janice Eidus' The Last Jewish Virgin has a place on the Midwest Book Review's "Small Press Review" fiction shelf for January 2011!"Vampires are a staple of literature, but Janice Eidus […]
Amy Lemmon Receives Centrum Praise
Date: January 5, 2011
Amy Lennon's collection of poetry, "Saint Nobody", received an in-depth review from the craft-focused community of Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington!"Poet Amy Lemmon, whose just-released collection Saint Nobody is now […]
Kurt Brown Lit Up 2010
Date: January 5, 2011
Rigoberto Gonzalez of The National Booki Critics Circle named Kurt Brown's collection of poems, No Other Paradise, as a 2010 Small Press Highlight!"If other poets examine the mysteries of our […]
Adventure to Momo-Jima
Date: January 5, 2011
Scott Brown received a wonderful review in the 2010 Hawaii Edition Review for his "brilliant political farce", Far Afield."Far Afield is an enormously entertaining novel that exposes our media’s preoccupation […]
Summer Brenner lassoed into the 2010 Local Book Roundup
Date: January 5, 2011
"As we near the end of this year in which America went broke, got high, and watched J.D. Salinger (and Gary Coleman) die, let's celebrate the East Bay's literary contributions […]
Janice Eidus as one of the Best Books of 2010!
Date: January 5, 2011
January Magazine names Janice Eidus's The Last Jewish Virgin as one of the best books of 2010. "The Last Jewish Virgin is quite beyond the sum of its parts." — […]
Book Notes – Rob Roberge (Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life”)”
Date: December 14, 2010
Book Notes – Rob Roberge ("Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life")In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way […]