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:
Missoula Independent Applauds Pete Fromm’s If Not For This
Date: September 12, 2014
Jo Deurbrouck, from the Missoula Independent, gives If Not For This a wonderful review. In the piece, she commends Fromm on his technique of showing the strength of his characters, […]
Michelle Newby Praises Amy Schutzer’s Spheres of Disturbance
Date: September 12, 2014
In a recent review from Monkeybicycle, Michelle Newby applauds Amy Schutzer's new novel and her ability to pull readers into the world she creates within the text: "As for Spheres […]
Joy Horowitz reviews Andrew Lam’s Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: September 3, 2014
Joy Horowitz, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, praises Lam's collection of short stories in its ability to elucidate the struggles of Vietnamese immigrants. "'HOW DIFFICULT IS IT,’” Andrew […]
The SunBreak raves about Elissa Washuta!
Date: August 13, 2014
In a recent review, Chris Burlingame, writing for The SunBreak heaped praise upon Elissa Washuta's "unforgettable" book, My Body Is a Book of Rules. "It feels like you’re learning about […]
The Stranger loves the power of My Body Is a Book of Rules!
Date: August 13, 2014
Writing for The Stranger, Paul Constant praised Elissa Washuta's use of "powerful prose" in her new book My Body Is a Book of Rules. "Body is a storm of fingernails […]
Shelf Awareness loves If Not For This!
Date: August 8, 2014
In a recent review of Pete Fromm's new novel, If Not For This, Linnie Greene, writing for Shelf Awareness, praised the novel's emotional impact. "This is a tough read, but […]
Sean Arthur Joyce of Chameleonfire1 loves What Does A House Want?
Date: July 23, 2014
Sean Arthur Joyce, on the blog Chameleonfire1, has very high praise for Gary Geddes' What Does A House Want?. “Geddes writes with a sureness of hand that is remarkable, never […]
Stefanie Wortman from Monkeybicycle praises Patter’s unique take on poetic form
Date: July 16, 2014
In a recent review on Monkeybicycle, Stefanie Wortman praised Douglas Kearney's unusual and exciting use of poetic form. "Kearney’s poems play with forms both visual and generic, drawing on the […]
The Vancouver Sun lavishes praise upon Gary Geddes’ What Does A House Want?
Date: June 30, 2014
In a recent review of Gay Geddes' newest collection of poetry, M.A.C. Farrant, writing for The Vancouver Sun, lauds the poems' beauty and strength. Farrant writes, "Likewise, the poems in […]
Meredith Sue Willis on Song for Chance
Date: June 30, 2014
John Van Kirk's novel, Song for Chance— a 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards finalist— was recently featured in the "Books for Readers" newsletter at Meredith Sue Willis.com. Of […]