Cai Emmons on fear, drugs, and her fatal diagnosis
Date: September 14, 2022
It suddenly occurred to me: I had taken a risk, invited an experience I was scared of, and I’d survived it. I could—and would—take such a risk again. And it […]
Date: September 14, 2022
It suddenly occurred to me: I had taken a risk, invited an experience I was scared of, and I’d survived it. I could—and would—take such a risk again. And it […]
Date: September 14, 2022
I imagine most people, like me, receive a fatal diagnosis with surprise. We all know intellectually that we will die, but no one really feels death as a certainty. We […]
Date: September 12, 2022
First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, […]
Date: September 12, 2022
“The question looms large: How does one assert oneself as a person, a woman, without a speaking voice, without sound waves commandeering attention?”
Date: September 12, 2022
Steamboat Bill, Jr.,aka Buster Keaton, 1928 It’s good to see him young again,back from the booze, divorces, talkies,bit parts, and that sponging relative,age. He’s home again, in the cyclonescene, headed into […]
Date: September 12, 2022
My Instagram feed is currently riddled with mushroom advertisements. A mushroom beverage exceeds coffee for focus and health benefits! Mushroom face serums provide youthful, plump-celled, and small-pored complexions! Another mushroom […]
Date: September 8, 2022
Marybeth Holleman’s first book of poetry, “tender gravity,” came out this month, and we’re excited to host an in person reading on Sept. 8 so she can share it with you. We […]
Date: September 8, 2022
Marybeth Holleman didn’t start out to be a poet, but she found her voice through the medium and is now celebrating her first collection of works called “tender gravity.” I […]
Date: September 8, 2022
Charles Harper Webb is a Professor of English at California State University, former psychotherapist, poet, and author. His recent book, Ursula Lake, is a dark and thrilling story about a […]
Date: September 7, 2022
At eight years old I began writing poetry. I loved the sounds of words, and I loved stringing them together, often nonsensically. I liked the solitude of writing, the secrecy, […]
Date: August 14, 2018
Poems by Augsburg’s Max Sessner appear in English in literary magazines in the USA. Translated by Francesca Bell, a translator and lyricist in the USA, who after making contact with […]
Date: August 14, 2018
The American Journal of Poetry features yet another poem by Red Hen author Dean Kostos. The journal praises Dean’s past and recent publications as well as acknowledges awards won by […]
Date: July 26, 2018
The ancient masters encounter the modern world in John Barr’s inventive new poetry collection Dante in China, a book that poses a triple threat: entertaining, educational and enlightening.
Date: July 24, 2018
In a recent review, Sarah Leamy provides a detailed summary of tammy lynee stoner's novel Sugar Land. Describing the book and stoner's characters, Leamy claims, "These characters linger and are […]
Date: July 19, 2018
Athens, Georgia magazine Flagpole reviewed Bradley Bazzle's recently published (and first!) novel Trash Mountain as part of a short summer reading list. "With a finely drawn young protagonist, Ben, and […]
Date: July 18, 2018
In a recent review, Booklist Review‘s Jonathan Fullmer describes Bryan Hurt’s collection Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France as “18 amusingly eccentric stories.” Despite containing distinct stories with quite […]
Date: July 17, 2018
In Foreword Review's September and October edition, Hannah Hohman reviews Tammy Lynne Stoner's novel Sugar Land. Summarizing the novel's main plot points, Hohman concludes that "Sugar Land is a raw, […]
Date: July 2, 2018
Michelle Anne Schlinger from Foreword Review gives an in-depth review of Cai Emmons’ upcoming title WEATHER WOMAN. Taking a close look at characters and plot, Schlinger praises the work of […]
Date: June 6, 2018
In her recent review of Doug Lawson's Big Foots in Paradise on her website, Sarah Leamy says that, "Doug Lawson Writes with confidence and his prose is lyrical, poetic and […]
Date: May 2, 2018
"'The Wilderness' broaches subjects both infinite and infinitesimal, contemplating cosmic forces and commas on an equal scale," writes Jessica Weber of UCR Today in this review and interview with Maurya […]