Tess Taylor featured poem in The Nation!
Date: April 21, 2022
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Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Date: April 12, 2022
Dear Listener, For this, our 99th episode, Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, and professor Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. This conversation, recorded in early November 2021, has been a long time […]
Date: April 12, 2022
Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four […]
Date: April 7, 2022
In 2003, I was a pre-med undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and taking poetry classes on the side—totally scattered, that is to say: lost, alive, lonely, and away […]
Date: April 7, 2022
Bill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, described by […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: March 31, 2022
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Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]
Date: May 22, 2024
Prolific Murfreesboro poet Gaylord Brewer turns his hand to short nonfiction in Before the Storm Takes It Away, his latest from Red Hen Press. While the structure of the 125 pieces […]
Date: May 21, 2024
Typically resourceful and resilient, Annika Rose Rogers has become stuck. Plunged into painful limbo after her high school graduation, the titular heroine of Cheri Johnson’s debut novel is fast outgrowing […]
Date: May 15, 2024
William Trowbridge has stopped by the pages of Light before in the guise of Oldguy (Reviews, Summer/Fall 2020). Now he’s back with a collection recounting the exploits of a classic persona, The Fool, traced […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Brice previously chronicled her Alaska youth in “Unlearning to Fly.” In “Another North,” she returns to Fairbanks as a divorced woman longing for a sense of home. The new collection […]
Date: May 15, 2024
Everett’s formally virtuosic latest collection (after The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke) interrogates the sonnet form as both a mode for thought and a vehicle for sonic […]
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in the Spring, 2024 issue, no. 51, pp. 223-7. To Move Wild Laughter Near the end Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, the heroine, Rosaline, tells her suitor […]
Date: May 14, 2024
This review appears in vol. 63, no. 1, fall, 2023, pp. 54-6. FOOLISH VIRTUOSITY William Trowbridge. Call Me Fool. Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2022. $17.95, paper. William Trowbridge […]