William Archila featured in the Annulet Poetics Journal
Date: October 17, 2022
“The Colonel” is a poem of witness because it focuses on the human rights violations in El Salvador, but most importantly because it has revealed the ways in which a […]
News & Reviews
News:
YOUR NOSTALGIA IS KILLING ME by John Weir Featured in Washington Post’s List of 10 Award-Winning Short Story Collections Worth Reading!
Date: October 17, 2022
Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book […]
Charles Harper Webb, Author of URSULA LAKE, is Featured on the Book Society Podcast!
Date: October 13, 2022
Poet and novelist Charles Harper Webb and host, Lucas Cantor, discuss THE BEST book Cantor’s read for the show. Fools Crow by James Welch. Listen to this show, Or don’t […]
Cai Emmons, author of LIVID, Interviewed by Fellow Red Hen Author Aimee Liu in LA Review of Books!
Date: October 12, 2022
THROUGHOUT HER LENGTHY writing career, Cai Emmons has returned again and again to the topic of catastrophe. Three of her most recent novels, including her 2022 groundbreaker Unleashed, have wrestled with […]
Amy Shearn, Author of UNSEEN CITY, Has an Essay Published In the NY Times!
Date: October 10, 2022
Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins. During the height of the pandemic, my mom-friend group chats roiled: I’m going to scream, typed […]
Diane Thiel, Author of QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE, is a 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist!
Date: October 6, 2022
Diane Thiel’s Questions from Outer Space explores fresh and often humorous perspectives that capture the surreal quality of our swiftly changing lives on this planet. The poems travel through questions […]
Alta recommends IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu
Date: October 5, 2022
This debut collection follows a slew of children and young adults as they move through the quotidian patterns of life—celebrating birthdays, enjoying beach parties, attending church events—while also being thrust […]
Good Morning America features IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu
Date: October 5, 2022
Good Morning America’s list of 15 October books to make you think and feel includes Pete Hsu’s new book out October 12, saying “Pete Hsu’s debut story collection chronicles scenes […]
Coco Picard Interviews a Character from THE HEALING CIRCLE In Women Writers Women’s Books
Date: October 3, 2022
An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky sits on the ledge of a window in the Wellness Center outside of Munich, Germany in my debut novel, THE HEALING CIRCLE. The plant […]
Conversations Between Friends: COCO PICARD and Sue Mell in Craft
Date: October 3, 2022
Consider the personal effects one leaves behind, the way those objects, once laid out, recall the idiosyncratic logic of a life—is there more compelling inspiration for a novel? Authors Coco […]
Reviews:
Verse Daily features Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s poem River Town””
Date: March 4, 2013
Check out a poem from Nicole Stellon O'Donell's collection Steam Laundry on Verse Daily. Full poem,
Green Mountains Review gives Ship of Fool high praise
Date: March 4, 2013
Erik Campbell applauds William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool in the Green Mountains Review. – “We need more books like Ship of Fool, more poetry collections that have the import and […]
Cirque Journal applauds Steam Laundry
Date: March 4, 2013
In a review for Cirque Journal, Ela Harrison Gordon praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's new poetry collection.- "This collection deserves a wider readership; deserves to be seen as more than an […]
The Adventures of Ibn Opcit featured on Booklist
Date: February 20, 2013
Diego Baez from Booklist praises John Barr's The Adventures of Ibn Opcit, calling it "wildly imaginative, satirical verse".- "Barr imbues his characters with such distinct voices and is so incredibly […]
Literary Magnet reviews All of You on the Good Earth
Date: February 20, 2013
G. M. Palmer from Literary Magnet praises Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth.- "Far more than his previous work or the work of most other poets today, […]
Rain Taxi applauds Jessy Randall’s Injecting Dreams into Cows
Date: February 15, 2013
CL Bledsoe from Rain Taxi Review of Books praises Injecting Dreams into Cows by Jessy Randall.- "Randall's poems have been appearing in various literary journals for some time, and this […]
The Manhattan Review praises New and Selected Poems:1957-2011
Date: January 31, 2013
Philip Fried from the Manhattan Review praises New and Selected Poems: 1957-2011, calling Robert Sward a "humorous, thoughtful, and delightful poet".- "And what makes his work even more engaging is […]
Booklist reviews Parnucklian For Chocolate
Date: January 24, 2013
B.H. James' Parnucklian For Chocolate is featured in the latest issue of Booklist.- "A classic naïf, Josiah is reminiscent of Chauncey Gardner in Jerzy Kozinski’s satirical novella, Being There (1970). […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Parnucklian For Chocolate
Date: January 23, 2013
B.H. James' Parnucklian For Chocolate is featured on Publishers Weekly.- To read the full review, click
Huffington Post praises The Horses
Date: January 18, 2013
Dean Rader from the Huffington post reviews Richard Silberg's The Horses: New and Selected.- "It's impossible to refrain from equine metaphors when writing about a book called The Horses (or […]