Sadie Hoagland’s “Best Books Narrated by Ghosts” snippet.
Date: April 20, 2021
The Books I Picked & Why Written by Sadie Hoagland Beloved By Toni Morrison Why this book? I cannot talk about ghosts in books with pausing to give homage to […]
News & Reviews
News:
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK, is featured on Rational Reminder podcast!
Date: April 19, 2021
Jennifer Risher is the author of “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth” which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of […]
MOON JAR author Didi Jackson’s “Bobolink” featured in Poem-a-Day!
Date: April 19, 2021
Read the poem here!
Khalisa Rae featured in The Chronicle!
Date: April 19, 2021
On April 17 at the Hayti Heritage Center, seven slam poets competed for a coveted spot on the 2021 Bull City Slam Team. These poets are a part of the […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT on list of “Best Southern Books of April 2021”
Date: April 19, 2021
There are so many wonderful books coming out this month we just want to rave about them all! Since April is National Poetry Month, we included three poetry collections by […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT (Khalisa Rae) listed on Poetry Daily!
Date: April 19, 2021
Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but […]
Allison Joseph and William Archila featured on LA Times Festival of Books Poetry Stage!
Date: April 19, 2021
Please enjoy these readings on our first ever virtual poetry “stage” produced in partnership with Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Be sure to scroll through the entire page, as there are several […]
THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHEOLOGY poet, William Archila, featured in the LA Times!
Date: April 15, 2021
At dozens of cafes, libraries and bookstores — even a garage in Bell — Southern California teemed with poetry readings and open mike nights before COVID-19 took hold of the world. Some […]
Thea Prieto (FROM THE CAVES) writes article for Poets & Writers!
Date: April 15, 2021
For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women […]
Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT featured in The Root!
Date: April 15, 2021
How does trauma affect the way we live our day-to-day lives? Is inherited or intergenerational trauma more significant than a trauma—or traumas—experienced firsthand? There are perspectives and arguments to consider […]
Reviews:
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. […]
Ben Tripp reviews C. Bain’s SEX AUGURY!
Date: April 22, 2024
If you had to organize a bunch of poetry books into bins, like in an old-fashioned vinyl record store…and you were getting creative with your genres/tabs/etc., this book Sex Augury […]
Kirkus Reviews features review of Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE!
Date: April 22, 2024
A coming-of-age tale combined with a pastoral horror story. Annika Rose Rogers graduates from high school with no real prospects for the future other than working alongside her father on […]