QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel wins the Independent Press Award in Poetry 2023!
Date: March 15, 2023
News & Reviews
News:
Jan Beatty discusses her memoir AMERICAN BASTARD on the About Your Mother Podcast with Jennifer Griffith
Date: March 6, 2023
When adoptees search for their birth parents, it’s the pursuit of identity. Where do I come from? Who gave birth to me? What is my medical history? AYM guest, Jan […]
Kim Dower reflects on The Coast Playhouse Poetry Marquee with The WeHo Times
Date: March 1, 2023
The Poetry on the Marquee at the Coast Playhouse came down earlier this week on Monday, February 20, 2023, as the theater gets ready for redevelopment in the near future. […]
Dolores Hayden, author of EXUBERANCE, featured in Metropolis Magazine!
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.
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
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 […]
Reviews:
YA Books Central Reviewed AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback!
Date: May 1, 2023
Aqueous is a debut novel set in a world where life on land is dangerous and harsh. To save humanity, an underwater paradise is built in the ocean.
David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS featured in the Southern Review of Books!
Date: April 25, 2023
David Mas Masumoto has a reputation as a remarkable writer. His previous work includes Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996), Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (1998), and Four […]
Brenda Cárdenas’ TRACE featured in RHINO Reviews!
Date: April 25, 2023
I heard Brenda Cárdenas read from her new collection, Trace, at The Hungry Brain in Chicago: an incantation, a call to action. By the time I got to the book […]
RHINO Poetry reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: April 25, 2023
Between grief and relief, Francesca Bell’s poems don’t pause, they flow – like a warm bath, and someone quietly bringing a candle; then a cold shower, and the body awakened […]
DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE by Peter Ulrich reviewed in PROG!
Date: April 24, 2023
A long-overdue tale recounted by way of an erstwhile member’s memoir.
Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 18, 2023
Climate disasters amplified by greed have rendered Earth’s surface uninhabitable and space travel impossible; now just three deep-ocean merstations stand between humankind and extinction. Desperate to ensure her last child’s […]
Alyssa Graybeal’s FLOPPY reviewed in Library Journal!
Date: April 18, 2023
In this compelling memoir, debut author and cartoonist Graybeal writes about her life living with chronic pain and her childhood diagnosis of the rare genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos […]
Červená Barva Press reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT!
Date: April 11, 2023
In Pacific Light, his newest volume of poems, David Mason proves again that he is a poet whose roots are deep in the mountains and oceans and the time—present, past, and […]
Oakville News Reviews AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback!
Date: April 3, 2023
After a phenomenal reception for her debut novel Aqueous at the Winter Institute American Booksellers Association convention in Seattle Washington this February, Oakville’s Jade Shyback is ready for the real publication launch right here […]
Ink19 recommends DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE by Peter Ulrich
Date: March 27, 2023
Peter Ulrich writes his memoir as a witness to the rise of one of the most inspiring, celebrated, and enigmatic independent bands to come out of London in the ’80s. […]