CAI EMMONS reflects on writing and silence in LitHub article
Date: September 12, 2022
“The question looms large: How does one assert oneself as a person, a woman, without a speaking voice, without sound waves commandeering attention?”
News & Reviews
News:
William Trowbridge, author of CALL ME FOOL, has three poems featured in the September issue of Plume!
Date: September 12, 2022
Steamboat Bill, Jr.,aka Buster Keaton, 1928 It’s good to see him young again,back from the booze, divorces, talkies,bit parts, and that sponging relative,age. He’s home again, in the cyclonescene, headed into […]
THE HEALING CIRCLE author Coco Picard talks mushrooms, “The Devil Wears Prada,” and capitalism in Daily Beast essay
Date: September 12, 2022
My Instagram feed is currently riddled with mushroom advertisements. A mushroom beverage exceeds coffee for focus and health benefits! Mushroom face serums provide youthful, plump-celled, and small-pored complexions! Another mushroom […]
Marybeth Holleman Discusses TENDER GRAVITY in Interview with Trustees for Alaska
Date: September 8, 2022
Marybeth Holleman’s first book of poetry, “tender gravity,” came out this month, and we’re excited to host an in person reading on Sept. 8 so she can share it with you. We […]
Marybeth Holleman Reads from TENDER GRAVITY for Alaska’s News Source
Date: September 8, 2022
Marybeth Holleman didn’t start out to be a poet, but she found her voice through the medium and is now celebrating her first collection of works called “tender gravity.” I […]
Charles Harper Webb Discusses URSULA LAKE on Fish Untamed Podcast
Date: September 8, 2022
Charles Harper Webb is a Professor of English at California State University, former psychotherapist, poet, and author. His recent book, Ursula Lake, is a dark and thrilling story about a […]
LIVID author Cai Emmons ponders the beauty of silence in LitHub essay
Date: September 7, 2022
At eight years old I began writing poetry. I loved the sounds of words, and I loved stringing them together, often nonsensically. I liked the solitude of writing, the secrecy, […]
WSKG Radio discusses Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS
Date: September 2, 2022
Novelist Yuvi Zalkow talks with host Crystal Sarakas about his latest book, I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS. It’s a quirky comedy about family, disconnection and the ways technology brings us […]
LIVID author Cai Emmons reflects on writing after a terminal diagnosis in the Los Angles Times
Date: August 31, 2022
The novelist Cai Emmons, who has intimately explored the rough contours traced by rage, grief and happiness onto ordinary lives for 20 years, has two novels out in September, “Unleashed” […]
Coco Picard discusses THE HEALING CIRCLE in HenLitCentral Interview
Date: August 27, 2022
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your published book (s).I am a writer, cartoonist, and curator. I started the Green Lantern Press, a non-profit art space and publisher […]
Reviews:
Review for Snake on Shelf Awareness
Date: September 25, 2012
Freelance writer Donald Powell hails Gary Lemons' Snake as both an apocalyptic and tear-filled ride. – "Snake is a wonderful fable, a trickster tale, a vision of a world set […]
The Kansas City Star reviews Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
Date: September 18, 2012
Here's what Elyssa East of The Kansas City Star had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – “…an eye-opening read for anyone interested in reconciling […]
Praise for Jack Foley in Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review
Date: August 21, 2012
In praise of Jack Foley's The Dancer and the Dance, Marvin R. Hiemstra, of Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, says, "Here are magnificently crafted studies you won’t find anywhere else. […]
The Next Best Book Blog reviews David Maine’s An Age of Madness
Date: August 21, 2012
Lori Hettler had this to say about David Maine's An Age of Madness in her recent review for TNBBC's The Next Best Book Blog. – "Through the brilliance of David […]
ForeWord reviews Two, Two, Lily-White Boys
Date: August 20, 2012
Chris Henning had this to say about Geoffrey Clark's Two, Two, Lily-White Boys in a recent review in ForeWord. – "Geoffrey Clark ups the ante in this coming-of-age story with […]
Booklist loves Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
Date: August 20, 2012
Susan DeGrane had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent review in Booklist. – "Barth’s tale of growing up gay in the […]
Kelsey Street Press reviews Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house
Date: August 16, 2012
HK Rainey of Kelsey Street Press had this to say about Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house – "In Genevieve Kaplan’s In the ice house, poems both jarring and lovely […]
Eric Howard admires Golos’s Vocabulary of Silence
Date: August 1, 2012
Rattle reviewer Eric Howard writes admiringly of Veronica Golos's lastest collection of poetry, Vocabulary of Silence: "Aligning herself with the nameless and the silent, Golos makes their story ours." To […]
Politics and Prose admiringly remarks on Many Ways to Say It
Date: August 1, 2012
Writing for Politics and Prose Laurie Greer lauds the poetry of Eva Saulitis's newest collection Many Ways to Say It. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When […]
Praise for A Halfman Dreaming in Wisconsin Bookwatch
Date: August 1, 2012
In a recent publication, the Wisconsin Bookwatch had some kind words for David Matlin's latest novel. The full text of the review is reproduced below: When you go through life […]