Date: June 9, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons is a clever and funny satire about how personal technology affects modern life. Monica Drake wrote of the book: “A sly, forthright comedy about the […]
Date: June 6, 2022
I had two reasons for enrolling in Pitzer College in 1978: to finally complete my B.A. and to study with poet Bert Meyers, whose poetry had knocked me off my […]
Date: June 6, 2022
Disengaged…a story about my relationship to computers and the internet and social media, and also about my own insecurities with who I am.
Date: June 6, 2022
The first Pride was a riot and this June, our fight persists. This month, we hope you’ll say gay (bi, lesbian, ace, trans, nonbinary, and more) and we’ve got some […]
Date: June 6, 2022
The judge’s remarks: Ned Balbo had this to say about his choice: I’m delighted to select Allison Joseph’s Lexicon as winner of Poetry by the Sea’s Best Book of 2021 […]
Date: June 6, 2022
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kate Gale. Hi Kate, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with […]
Date: June 1, 2022
“The first critical essay I ever wrote was about the movie Dead Poets Society, which came out when I was fourteen. I wasn’t yet writing poetry myself, and I didn’t have any theories about why […]
Date: June 1, 2022
A society is only as healthy as its teachers. Ours, you might say, is in trouble, partly because our teachers often feel underappreciated and unseen. Yet most of us can […]
Date: June 1, 2022
Today’s poem is by Diane Thiel “A misunderstanding of a fresco,a figure with papyrus on the east wall.Someone assumed wrong two centuries ago,but the name remained—the House of the Tragic Poet.
Date: June 1, 2022
Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, talks to the podcast, “Poet Runner.”
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]
Date: September 4, 2018
David Mason must feel amazing that American Life in Poetry has choosen his poem The Mud Room. It brings us joy that he was mentioned! Check it out here
Date: September 4, 2018
The Audio Saucepan has recenlty included poems by Mark Wagenaar from Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining on the epispde “The Thumped Palm Episode.” You can listen to it here
Date: August 14, 2018
Poems by Augsburg’s Max Sessner appear in English in literary magazines in the USA. Translated by Francesca Bell, a translator and lyricist in the USA, who after making contact with […]
Date: August 14, 2018
The American Journal of Poetry features yet another poem by Red Hen author Dean Kostos. The journal praises Dean’s past and recent publications as well as acknowledges awards won by […]
Date: July 26, 2018
The ancient masters encounter the modern world in John Barr’s inventive new poetry collection Dante in China, a book that poses a triple threat: entertaining, educational and enlightening.
Date: July 24, 2018
In a recent review, Sarah Leamy provides a detailed summary of tammy lynee stoner's novel Sugar Land. Describing the book and stoner's characters, Leamy claims, "These characters linger and are […]
Date: July 19, 2018
Athens, Georgia magazine Flagpole reviewed Bradley Bazzle's recently published (and first!) novel Trash Mountain as part of a short summer reading list. "With a finely drawn young protagonist, Ben, and […]
Date: July 18, 2018
In a recent review, Booklist Review‘s Jonathan Fullmer describes Bryan Hurt’s collection Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France as “18 amusingly eccentric stories.” Despite containing distinct stories with quite […]
