THE WILDERNESS author Maurya Simon wrote for Literary Matters!
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 […]
News & Reviews
News:
I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS author Yuvi Zalkow published a new essay!
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.
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Lambda Literary’s “June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature”!
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 […]
Allison Joseph’s LEXICON Wins Poetry by the Sea Best Book of the Year Award!
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 […]
Kate Gale Interviewed for VoyageLA!
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 […]
Adam Kirsch talks ‘Dead Poets Society’ and Artistic Expression for the Jewish Book Council!
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 […]
David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, wrote for LARB!
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 […]
“Mosaic in Pompeii” by Diane Thiel featured in Verse Daily!
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.
URSULA LAKE author Charles Harper Webb interviewed by Poet Runner!
Date: June 1, 2022
Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, talks to the podcast, “Poet Runner.”
Author of SUBDUCTION Kristen Millares Young Interviewed on Bomb Magazine!
Date: June 1, 2022
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military […]
Reviews:
Injecting Dreams into Cows is reviewed on Coal Hill Review
Date: January 4, 2013
CL Bledsoe from Coal Hill Review was thrilled to read Jessy Randall's collection: "Randall's poems waste no words: they are often short but pack a powerful punch. Her language is […]
Arsenic Lobster praises But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: January 2, 2013
Jessica Dyer from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.- "Like the strands of DNA that make up living things, like the strings […]
The Seattle Lesbian labels Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus a required read
Date: December 19, 2012
Abby Soto from The Seattle Lesbian applauds Kelly Barth's memoir: "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that […]
The California Journal of Poetics reviews Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: December 12, 2012
Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows is praised by Lisa Grove from the California Journal of Poetics.- “By the end of Injecting Dreams into Cows Randall has created a time […]
Mead Magazine reviews Rodney Wittwer’s Gone & Gone
Date: November 28, 2012
Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone is reviewed by Mead magazine for their Fall 2012 volume.- "This first collection is marked by the authority and fearlessness of the voice, one willing […]
Rattle reviews Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 9, 2012
Sandra Knauf praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows for Rattle.- "Her scope is kaleidoscopic. She treasures and shares found poems. She digs deep and uses all the emotions in […]
The Deepening praises Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: November 8, 2012
DLKeur from The Deepening reviews and praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows.- Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave […]
ChicoER.com Reviews Gary Lemons’ Snake
Date: November 8, 2012
Dan Barnett reviews Gary Lemons' reading of Snake at the Butte College Reading Series. To read the full review, click
The Bicycle Review praises Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe
Date: November 8, 2012
J de Salvo from the The Bicycle Review praises Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe. – “Constantine has always been a poet who was admired for his wit, his line, and for […]
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus featured in Missoula Independent
Date: October 30, 2012
Here's what Michael Peck from Missoula Independent had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – "Unflinching and funny, the book concerns itself with the seeming […]