Charles Harper Webb guest wrote for Psychology Today!
Date: February 24, 2022
My first memory of kindergarten is when I’d made an airplane by crossing two thin cylinders of modeling clay. As I “flew” my plane around the room, a bigger boy with a […]
News & Reviews
News:
Thea Prieto featured in CRAFT!
Date: February 22, 2022
Eleanor Wilner interviewed for Harvard Review Online!
Date: February 15, 2022
Eleanor Wilner, recipient of the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America, published her first book of poetry when she was forty-two. She has […]
Diane Thiel interviewed for DailyLobo.com!
Date: February 15, 2022
In a digital age, classic romantic gestures can go a long way, especially during the month of love. Two University of New Mexico creative writing professors sat down with the Daily […]
Andrew Lam’s BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST in a study in Studies in the American Short Story
Date: February 10, 2022
In Andrew Lam’s “Birds of Paradise Lost” and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Immolation,” the act of self-immolation is perceived differently by members of the first-generation and second-generation Vietnamese Americans. In […]
Joan Nockels Wilson is a guest on Speaker’s Forum!
Date: February 3, 2022
This episode of Speakers Forum centers around three very different experiences of childhood sexual abuse. However, all three guests consider the responsibility of caregivers to prevent abuse and the difficulty […]
Maurya Simon essay featured in Press Enterprise
Date: February 1, 2022
Memory is fickle, quixotic and slippery as an eel. It latches itself onto strong emotions like fear, anger, or surprise and it won’t let go. Up until adolescence, children often […]
Beth Gilstrap interviewed on This Podcast Will Change Your Life!
Date: February 1, 2022
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars the Beth Gilstrap (Deadheading & Other Stories, I Am Barbarella: Stories). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your […]
Kim Stafford’s “What For?” featured in The Writer’s Almanac!
Date: January 30, 2022
Thanks to The Writer’s Almanac for featuring Kim Stafford’s poem “What For?” from his latest collection SINGER COME FROM AFAR on January 30, 2022!
Charles Harper Webb, author of URSULA LAKE, guest writes for Psychology Today!
Date: January 25, 2022
Surely one of the most vivid and memorable metaphors in psychology is Carl Jung’s shadow. Similar in many ways to Freud’s “Id,” the term shadow helps us to visualize the way in which troublesome […]
Reviews:
Poetry Salzburg Review Gives Ally Acker’s Some Help from the Dead an excellent review.
Date: January 31, 2012
In the Autumn 2011 edition, Poetry Salzburg Review said: "Ally Ackers Some Help from the Dead offers high-spirited, lively encounters with life and language as well as frequent commemorations […]
Publishers Weekly says Ron Carlson Delivers the Whimsy” “
Date: January 23, 2012
In a recent Publishers Weekly article, Wendy Werris profiles author Ron Carlson for their January 20th edition. Werris acknowledges that "after 10 books of fiction in 35 years [Carlson] will […]
Southern Indiana Review gives great review for Covet by Lynnell Edwards
Date: January 19, 2012
Southern Indian Review reviews Covet by Lynnell Edwards. Here is a small excerpt from the article: “…In Covet, femininity becomes a masterful force and fragility a pointed threat… Edwards uses […]
Covet by Lynnell Edwards reviewed by Book Punch
Date: January 18, 2012
Covet by Lynnell Edwards is reviewed by Book Punch in 200 words or less. “Covet is a verb. It’s active. Here, in these poems, it’s also a constant choice. And […]
Bigcitylit.com reviews Vocabulary Of Silence
Date: November 1, 2011
George Wallace reviewd Vocabulary Of Silence for BigCityLit. He said of it, Vocabulary of Silence is a collection to savor and experience fully, a collection to educate ourselves with. It […]
Hey, Small Press! reviews In the ice house
Date: October 27, 2011
Hey, Small Press! reviewed In the ice house, saying of it, Kaplan’s first collection of poetry somehow straddles the fence of simple and rich. The poet captures the natural world, […]
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot in Shelf Awareness
Date: October 27, 2011
Shelf Awareness, the popular daily e-newsletter, recently ran a review of BLBS, the new short story collection from Brian Doyle: "This is vintage Doyle, and it doesn't get much better. […]
Shelf Awareness looks at Blood Daughters
Date: October 27, 2011
Sara Dobie reviewed Blood Daughters for Shelf Awareness and was pleased to find "Blood Daughters is entertaining and well-written, with a vivacious heroine at the helm and action that doesn't […]
Kirkus Reviews Imagine No Religion by Blase Bonpane
Date: October 27, 2011
In reading Imagine No Religion Kirkus Reviews appreciates that "reading Bonpanes memoir is like exploring a mini-history of liberal activism over the last 45 years." Throughout the book, Bonpane (Civilization […]
The Midwest Book Review has high praise for In Confidence
Date: October 3, 2011
“An intriguing spin of poetry that touches on life and its surprises with clarity. Educated and well put, ‘In Confidence’ is a fine debut volume, very much recommended.” Click