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 […]
News & Reviews
News:
Cai Emmons reflects on humor and her fatal diagnosis in Today
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 […]
Carlos Allende, Author of COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE, Interviewed on LitHub First Draft Podcast by Mitzi Rapkin
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, […]
CAI EMMONS reflects on writing and silence in LitHub article
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?”
William Trowbridge, author of CALL ME FOOL, has three poems featured in the September issue of Plume!
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 […]
THE HEALING CIRCLE author Coco Picard talks mushrooms, “The Devil Wears Prada,” and capitalism in Daily Beast essay
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 […]
Marybeth Holleman Discusses TENDER GRAVITY in Interview with Trustees for Alaska
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 […]
Marybeth Holleman Reads from TENDER GRAVITY for Alaska’s News Source
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 […]
Charles Harper Webb Discusses URSULA LAKE on Fish Untamed Podcast
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 […]
LIVID author Cai Emmons ponders the beauty of silence in LitHub essay
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, […]
Reviews:
Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang Reviewed by The Rumpus
Date: January 8, 2014
Jessica Piazza's poetry collection Interrobang recieves an enthusiastic review from literary site The Rumpus. Writer Mag Gabbert proclaims, "The experience of reading these poems is like wandering through a hall […]
Pedestal Magazine Reviews Nicelle Davis’ Becoming Judas
Date: January 8, 2014
Pedestal Magazine reviewed Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas, complimeting the poet on her unique ability to mix topics of religion, love and desire, among others, into one seemless collection. JoSelle Vanderhooft […]
Kathleen Driskell’s Seed Across Snow Featured on the Spokeman Review
Date: January 8, 2014
Kathleen Driskell's poem "Seed" from her collection Seed Across Snow has been featured on the Spokesman Review. Writer Ted Kooser describes the poem's focus on the sweetness of parent-child bonds, […]
The Sonnet makes a Comeback and Ernest Hilbert is its Advocate
Date: January 8, 2014
Peter Crimmins examines the evolution of the sonnet in his article for Newsworks, focusing on modern poetry that reimagines this classic poetic form in new and exciting ways. Red Hen's […]
Nicelle Davis’ Becoming Judas Lauded by the Ampersand Review
Date: January 8, 2014
The Ampersand Review praised Nicelle Davis' poetry collection, Becoming Judas, in a review of her work. Reviewer Darby Laine writes, "This talented author's living testimony is crafted as interpretation, extension […]
Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto Receives Praise
Date: January 2, 2014
The Bulletin of Overseas Brats praises Steve Basset's memoir Golden Ghetto. "This book has the benefit of a very gifted writer because the more interested and fascinated he becomes, the […]
Alibi Praises Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto
Date: December 13, 2013
Lisa Barrow from Alibi calls Steve Basset's style in Golden Ghetto: How the Americans & French Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War "enthusiastic." "Bassetts old-school journalistic […]
Verónica Reyes’s Chopper! Chopper! Named One of the Best LGBT Books of 2013
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]
LitReactor absolutely loves The Ogre’s Wife
Date: October 30, 2013
Brian McGackin from LitReactor calls Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife "the book that's going to get you back into poetry." "Koertge isn't trying to be smart; he is smart. He […]
LitBridge reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: October 30, 2013
LitBridge's Analicia Sotelo discusses the very "personal" feel of the poems of Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "Saito writes about departure with a meditative restlessness that asks if […]