The National Features a Poem by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Date: January 19, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Buzzfeed News Features I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS!
Date: January 19, 2022
Thea Prieto talks FROM THE CAVES and a changing world with Lily Brooks-Dalton in an interview for Ecotheo Collective!
Date: January 18, 2022
Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote “Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive,” and back in 2016, when Lily Brooks-Dalton’s post-apocalyptic novel Good Morning, Midnight (Penguin Random House) was […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT and gossypiin featured in Book Riot!
Date: January 18, 2022
Jim Peterson talks about THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS on Fall For the Book Podcast!
Date: January 11, 2022
Jim Peterson takes readers on a surreal journey in his short story collection The Sadness of Whirlwinds. In this first episode of the 2022 season of The Fall for the […]
Jennifer Risher discusses her 14-year memoir WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, in her new podcast on Apple!
Date: January 5, 2022
There’s a ancient saying that money is not so much the problem; it’s the love of money that causes the trouble. There’s another truth about the topic: It’s really hard […]
Kristen Millares Young author of SUBDUCTION, joins three other authors in conversation about the body in KUOW!
Date: January 5, 2022
This conversation is wide ranging, touching on health and the internal experiences of having a body, as well as the external forces and cruelty that can impact the body. Our […]
Check out David Mason’s, author of THE SOUND: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, new article on LA Review of Books!
Date: January 4, 2022
MY FATHER’S PAINT BOX was made of leather-covered wood, worn at the corners so the wood showed through. As a child, I loved opening that box, looking at the inner […]
The Playwright’s House was a staff pick as a favorite 2021 read from WBUR!
Date: January 4, 2022
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and for some of us, it ushers in a period of time away from work. Couple that with omicron forcing many of us inside and away […]
Red Hen Poet Cynthia Hogue Selected as Guest Editor for the Academy American Poets Poem-a-Day!
Date: December 15, 2021
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2022. The guest editors are all award-winning […]
Reviews:
Publishers Weekly reviews Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: February 17, 2021
Rae considers the intersection of history and modernity in the American South in her provocative debut. “The South will birth a new kind of haunting in your black girl-ness,” she […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT reviewed by Yes Poetry!
Date: February 3, 2021
One facet in poetry’s beauty is its urgency. Its collective need–which is beyond desire–to facilitate a process that weaves its spill and story. Urgency is one of the driving forces […]
WORSHIP THE PIG (Gaylord Brewer) reviewed in Sugar House Reviews!
Date: February 3, 2021
This could be called a book of odes, of praise songs, of quests punctuated with wry asides. Of poems saying not what the poet starts out to say, but what […]
Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s THE LIKELY WORLD reviewed on North of Oxford
Date: February 3, 2021
In Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s novel, The Likely World, Mel lets a drug called “cloud” spread over her mouth and wrap her in a state of forgetfulness. The story is told in a […]
Jason Schneiderman’s HOLD ME TIGHT reviewed by Mark Wagenaar in list of favorite books from 2020!
Date: January 20, 2021
Plume has a number of talented editors, and given the extraordinary year the world faced, I thought asking them for some of their favorite books of 2020 made sense, as […]
THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE first review!
Date: January 14, 2021
In Dariel Suarez’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House, to be released in June from Red Hen Press, the realities of living in Havana under a communist state are brought alive through […]
Midwest Book Review gives Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK a look.
Date: January 13, 2021
When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By their early thirties, they had tens of […]
SUMMER OF THE CICADAS Reviewed in Expendable Mudge Blog
Date: January 13, 2021
A book of eerie, unnatural-nature events pushing one lone and lonely lesbian, returned to small-town West Virginia from a law-enforcement career, to deal with Life. After many years’ effort to […]
RIFT ZONE by Tess Taylor reviewed by Reader Views!
Date: January 13, 2021
“Rift Zone” by Tess Taylor, is a powerful, moving collection of poetry giving voice to the voiceless, and to those who express theirs in a whisper, a whimper, a growl, […]
Expendable Mudge Blog reviews THE FALLS OF WYONA
Date: January 13, 2021
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn’t that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame […]