John Weir interviewed for Bay Area Reporter!
Date: April 7, 2022
If patience is a virtue, then fans of award-winning gay writer John Weir are among the most virtuous people you will ever find. Weir won a Lambda Literary Award for […]
News & Reviews
News:
Elizabeth Bradfield, author of TOWARD ANTARTICA, interviewed by Brandeis Now!
Date: April 4, 2022
Elizabeth Bradfield, professor of creative writing, is the author of five poetry books. When she isn’t publishing her stories or encouraging students to write their own, she can be found outside, leading whale […]
The San Diego-Union Tribune listed I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM as an anticipated Spring release!
Date: March 31, 2022
Kim Stafford exhibit opens at Lewis & Clark College!
Date: March 31, 2022
Kim Stafford’s archive at Lewis & Clark College isn’t about him. It’s about everyone else. In curating the collection of his life’s work — poems, essays, stories, songs, letters and […]
I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS and NEW MOONS listed on Matt Witt’s World Wide Work: films, books, and music you may have missed!
Date: March 29, 2022
Here’s the latest World Wide Work update on films, books, and music you may have missed.
Gary Lemons interviewed on Behind the Vision podcast!
Date: March 29, 2022
I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Lemons to talk about his quartet series, Snake. Check out our first interview, where we talk about Gary’s background and book one in […]
Thea Prieto, Sadie Hoagland, and Beth Gilstrap all listed as Foreword Indie Awards finalists!
Date: March 17, 2022
Carl Marcum’s poetry featured in WPSU!
Date: March 8, 2022
Poetry Moment on WPSU is a program featuring the work of contemporary Pennsylvania poets. Host Shara McCallum is this year’s Penn State Laureate.
EVERYTHING NEVER COMES YOUR WAY poems featured in Poetry in Sounds contest!
Date: March 3, 2022
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell’s poems were selected as part of the Poetry in Sound project from Navier records, a monthly contest that invites musicians worldwide to make a song inspired by […]
Carol Becker Interviewed for Los Angeles Review of Books!
Date: March 1, 2022
THIS IS THE 56th in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Carol Becker, professor of arts and dean […]
Reviews:
Poetry Foundation Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: May 13, 2024
Blue Atlas by Susan Rich takes its title from the Blue Atlas Cedar found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. As the book’s epigraph explains: “It is the hardiest species and […]
Pioneer Press Celebrates Minnesota Authors, Naming ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson on Their List
Date: May 13, 2024
Pioneer Press has names ANNIKA ROSE by Cheri Johnson as one of their three fiction works from Minnesota authors. The full review is in the link below!
The Shore features review of Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS!
Date: May 8, 2024
Susan Rich’s newest collection, Blue Atlas, is a complicated work that artfully blends the personal and the political, avoiding didacticism to create a timely narrative that explores the themes of […]
Soapberry Review features article on “Loss and surrealism in E.P. Tuazon’s Professional Lola”!
Date: May 8, 2024
I’m one of three children of immigrants from the Philippines. My mother and father came to the United States with their respective families in the ’60s and ’70s and met […]
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM by Kim Dower Reviewed by Angel City Review
Date: May 2, 2024
There are few things more classically Freudian than autobiographical poems about a poet’s relationship with their mother, and this new collection by prolific former West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim […]
Southern Review of Books names DEER BLACK OUT by Ulrich Jesse K. Baer in their April 2024 lineup
Date: April 29, 2024
Check out the extensive list of The Best Southern Books of April 2024 by Southern Review of Books at the link below!
New West Indian Guide features review of Juliana Lamy’s YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND
Date: April 23, 2024
You Were Watching from the Sand (Pasadena CA: Red Hen, 2023, paper US$16.95), the debut short story collection by Haitian-born, South Florida-raised Harvard graduate Juliana Lamy, vividly portrays adolescent life […]
Léon Pradeau reviews Ulrich Jesse K. Baer’s DEER BLACK OUT on Verse of April
Date: April 23, 2024
I was driven, & I was moved. Your book travels through identities at night, like deer eyes I saw glowing over a road in upstate Wisconsin, arresting. Your words keep […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED
Date: April 23, 2024
Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed is an ambitious, gorgeously written novel about the lives of refugees and the failure of systems to care for these vulnerable survivors of wars and […]
Library Journal Review of A Professional Lola
Date: April 23, 2024
Southern California-based Filipino American writer Tuazon (The Cussing Cat Clock) brings to readers a collection of 13 short stories, 11 of which have been previously published in slightly different forms. […]