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:
ABRACADABRA, SUNSHINE by Dexter L. Booth reviewed by Poetry Foundation!
Date: July 14, 2021
Most of the poems in Dexter L. Booth’s second collection, Abracadabra, Sunshine, are addressed to old lovers, friends, and family, and seek understanding amid the emotional complexities of adult life. Booth […]
Raving Review of JANE OF BATTERY PARK by Publishers Weekly!
Date: July 8, 2021
“In Viner’s exquisite debut, a Southern California woman raised in a cult struggles to reconnect with a lost love amid a dystopian society…With a wholly original and eerily suspenseful story, […]
BODY OF RENDER by Felicia Zamora reviewed in Booklist!
Date: July 7, 2021
There is a jagged urgency to award-winning and CantoMundo Fellow Zamor’s sixth book. The opening section, “At the Hand of Other,” consists of 30 one-stanza poems that each lean toward memory and immediacy while the poet […]
Carl Marcum’s A CAMERA OBSCURA reviewed in New York Journal of Books!
Date: July 7, 2021
A Camera Obscura stands at the crossroads of many such conversations: one could talk about the close, careful pacing of Mr. Marcum’s prose, a storytelling manner that often feels akin to […]
TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT reviewed in the Gay & Lesbian Review!
Date: July 7, 2021
THE TITLE of Judy Grahn’s sixteenth book beckons readers into a world in which all living species share a net of consciousness, a mind as distinct from the brain as […]
BUY ME LOVE by Martha Cooley Reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: June 23, 2021
In Martha Cooley’s novel Buy Me Love, a woman’s lottery win reveals her complicated relationships with money, family, and art. Read the rest of the review here!
Washington Independent reviews A CAMERA OBSCURA by Carl Marcum!
Date: June 17, 2021
In A Camera Obscura, Carl Marcum invites us into the skies with a collection wound around the technical language of astronomy and lived experience on Earth. A poem in sections, “The […]
The Boston Globe reviews THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez!
Date: June 14, 2021
“Taut and propulsive.” – The Boston Globe, review of The Playwright’s House. Click here to read more!
North of Oxford takes a look at A CAMERA OBSCURA (Carl Marcum) and AMERICAN QUASAR (David Campos & Maceo Montoya)
Date: June 14, 2021
As we continue to live our days through the latest chapter in our ever-unfolding, shared pandemic, and emerge from the darker months toward the light of the summer, two new […]
AMERICAN QUASAR by David Campos reviewed in Rhino Poetry!
Date: June 14, 2021
David Campos’s second collection, American Quasar, follows a lonely speaker’s dreams, meditations, and prayers to understand life. Campos juxtaposes inhumanity in the modern United States with inhumanity in the nuclear […]