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:
THE LOST WOMEN OF AZALEA COURT Receives Glowing Review by Mom Egg Review!
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
John Weir’s YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed In Gay City News!
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE gets rave review in Southern Review of Books!
Date: June 16, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
Southern Review of Books features Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE!
Date: June 6, 2022
At this pivotal point in history, the word “refugee” holds many different meanings and connotations. As Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine progresses and more than five million Ukrainians flee their […]
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME Reviewed on NY Journal of Books!
Date: June 6, 2022
“Weir writes beautifully, elegantly.” The horrific AIDS epidemic inspired a flourishing of literature by writers more openly, proudly, often angrily, gay than their predecessors had been. These young writers had […]
LARB Reviews Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE!
Date: June 2, 2022
ADAM KIRSCH’S FOURTH BOOK of poetry, The Discarded Life, is an autobiography in blank verse, organized into 40 numbered parts, like cantos, each averaging a comfortable 26 or 27 lines, […]
COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE reviewed in Life Elsewhere
Date: May 31, 2022
Are Jigdesh and Charlie, the brilliantly depicted leads in Carlos Allende’s new novel, gay caricatures? The author’s answer may surprise you.
URSULA LAKE gets shout out in Poet Runner podcast!
Date: May 24, 2022
Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM reviewed by The Washington Post!
Date: May 23, 2022
Beware Kim Dower’s poetry. Again and again, this crafty writer invites you in for a casual chat and then wallops you. Her poem “Game Over” starts with a little comedy about […]
PLAINCHANT reviewed in Publishers Weekly
Date: May 17, 2022