QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE author Diane Thiel’s poem featured in The Common!
Date: May 2, 2022
Date: May 2, 2022
Date: May 2, 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 […]
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Date: April 21, 2022
Date: April 21, 2022
Date: April 14, 2022
Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Date: April 12, 2022
Dear Listener, For this, our 99th episode, Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, and professor Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. This conversation, recorded in early November 2021, has been a long time […]
Date: April 12, 2022
Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four […]
Date: April 7, 2022
In 2003, I was a pre-med undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and taking poetry classes on the side—totally scattered, that is to say: lost, alive, lonely, and away […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Anna Call from Foreword for the great review of Florencia Ramirez’s EAT LESS WATER, calling it “a charming work that gets its point across beautifully.”
Date: March 16, 2020
“Greene has come through an extraordinary trial both at home and abroad advocating for Peter. She is clear-eyed about the fact that both of her Russian-born children face unusual challenges, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
In the lead-up to the 2011 Tucson Book Festival, Jarret Keene published this review of Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence–in the Tucson Weekly (10 March 2011).
Date: March 16, 2020
Steve Pfarrer of Gazette Net explores questions On Hurricane Island brings to the table: “Told from the perspective of a number of other characters, from both sides of the country’s political divide, […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman from Skullwise Cat (page 69) “Teri Youmans Grimm’s account is as ambitious and seductive as Lyla Dore herself. With poems that unfold as grandly as scenes from the […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Sea Salt by David Mason was reviewed by The Dark Horse in their Autumn/Winter 2015 issue. It’s pretty exciting to read such a great review all the way from Scotland: “Reading Sea Salt is to […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Date: March 16, 2020
Describing people, creating them from the ground up, is a slippery thing. They don’t stand still, like objects. Every fresh breeze, new thought, distant sound sets them trembling like leaves […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Jason Hess writes for New Pages, applauding If Not For This for its poignancy. “Pete Fromm’s If Not For This was the most moving novel I read in 2014…Fromm packs a lifetime […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Katie Rensch reviews Andrea Scarpino’s book of poetry Once, Then in New Pages, and commends its tender language. “These poems are intensely observational and perceptive…Whether describing the death of a childhood apple tree […]