QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE author Diane Thiel’s poem featured in The Common!
Date: May 2, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young interviewed by Bomb Magazine!
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 […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Independent Book Review “45 Books We’re Excited About”!
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Charles Harper Webb featured article in Psychology Today!
Date: April 21, 2022
Tess Taylor featured poem in The Nation!
Date: April 21, 2022
Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY listed as one of Early Bird Books’ “Best Book Club Books!”
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 […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT author Khalisa Rae wins Best Poet at the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards!
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Douglas Kearney interviewed on Commonplace Podcast!
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 […]
Kim Dower is a guest on The Kathryn Zox Show!
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 […]
Brynn Saito writes for Poetry Society of Ameria!
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 […]
Reviews:
Gertrude Press praises THE DEAD GO TO SEATTLE
Date: December 5, 2017
Huge thanks to Lara Messersmith-Glavin for this rave review of Vivian Faith Prescott’s THE DEAD GO TO SEATTLE! “
Book Review: In June the Labyrinth
Date: December 4, 2017
Anne Kaier provides a deep look into the emotional depth of Cynthia Hogue’s In June the Labyrinth, citing “one of the more penetrating of ways to speak to the dead […]
The heart’s vast and cratered purpose’
Date: December 4, 2017
Many thanks to Elizabeth Savage for her insightful commentary on the poetic themes of Cynthia Hogue's In June the Labyrinth. Read it now
William Trowbridge’s VANISHING POINT is featured in Green Mountains Review
Date: November 17, 2017
William Trowbridge's collection of poems, VANISHING POINT, received a rave review in the online edition of Green Mountains Review. Read the review
Lambda Literary reviews HANGING ON OUR BONES
Date: November 9, 2017
Julie R. Enszer of Lambda Literary extols Judy Grahn's HANGING ON OUR OWN BONES! Enszer preface her lengthly review by praising Grahn's beloved presence in the lesbian literary community. She […]
Booklist Reviews LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS
Date: October 30, 2017
Booklist reviewer Karen Springen praises Anne Edelstein’s newest release, claiming “Families struggling to come to terms with unexpected deaths, especially suicides, may find comfort in this well-written memoir.” “
Chelsey Clammer interviewed by The Sunlight Press
Date: October 17, 2017
Thanks to The Sunlight Press for a
WOW! Reviews CIRCADIAN by Chelsey Clammer
Date: October 16, 2017
Women of Writing reviewer Angela Makintosh gives high praise to Chelsey Clammer's debut collection of essays, CIRCADIAN. "Circadian is a masterfully written collection of 12 lyric essays that are poetic, […]
David Mason’s Libretto praised by Gramophone
Date: October 10, 2017
Red Hen author David Mason adapted Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER into a stunning operatic libretto, THE SCARLET LIBRETTO, that had its world premiere in May 2016 by Opera Colorado.
David Mason poem shared by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Date: October 3, 2017
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser