Anna V.Q. Ross’ “After All” Featured in Mass Poetry!
Date: June 9, 2022
After AllAnna V.Q. Ross Even when the garlic crop is good,something else is always dying— the peas withering in the afternoon we hopedfor rain instead of watering, the tomatoes
News & Reviews
News:
Yuvi Zalkow’s I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS featured in Largehearted Boy!
Date: June 9, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons is a clever and funny satire about how personal technology affects modern life. Monica Drake wrote of the book: “A sly, forthright comedy about the […]
THE WILDERNESS author Maurya Simon wrote for Literary Matters!
Date: June 6, 2022
I had two reasons for enrolling in Pitzer College in 1978: to finally complete my B.A. and to study with poet Bert Meyers, whose poetry had knocked me off my […]
I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS author Yuvi Zalkow published a new essay!
Date: June 6, 2022
Disengaged…a story about my relationship to computers and the internet and social media, and also about my own insecurities with who I am.
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Lambda Literary’s “June’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature”!
Date: June 6, 2022
The first Pride was a riot and this June, our fight persists. This month, we hope you’ll say gay (bi, lesbian, ace, trans, nonbinary, and more) and we’ve got some […]
Allison Joseph’s LEXICON Wins Poetry by the Sea Best Book of the Year Award!
Date: June 6, 2022
The judge’s remarks: Ned Balbo had this to say about his choice: I’m delighted to select Allison Joseph’s Lexicon as winner of Poetry by the Sea’s Best Book of 2021 […]
Kate Gale Interviewed for VoyageLA!
Date: June 6, 2022
Today we’d like to introduce you to Kate Gale. Hi Kate, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with […]
Adam Kirsch talks ‘Dead Poets Society’ and Artistic Expression for the Jewish Book Council!
Date: June 1, 2022
“The first critical essay I ever wrote was about the movie Dead Poets Society, which came out when I was fourteen. I wasn’t yet writing poetry myself, and I didn’t have any theories about why […]
David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, wrote for LARB!
Date: June 1, 2022
A society is only as healthy as its teachers. Ours, you might say, is in trouble, partly because our teachers often feel underappreciated and unseen. Yet most of us can […]
“Mosaic in Pompeii” by Diane Thiel featured in Verse Daily!
Date: June 1, 2022
Today’s poem is by Diane Thiel “A misunderstanding of a fresco,a figure with papyrus on the east wall.Someone assumed wrong two centuries ago,but the name remained—the House of the Tragic Poet.
Reviews:
New Letters admires Gary Dop’s work for Father
Date: March 16, 2020
Child
A conversation between Cynthia Hogue and Sari Broner on ‘The Incognito Body'”
Date: March 16, 2020
Sari Broner’s interview with Cynthia Hogue about The Incognito Body, which was then in-process, was published in the “work/book” section of the avant-garde literary journal How2 1:5 (March 2001).
The Mindful Word reviews CIRCADIAN
Date: March 16, 2020
Many thanks to The Mindful Word for this lovely review of Chelsey Clammer’s CIRCADIAN, noting “Clammer is swift with language, intelligent and funny. She’s lyrical, poetic and sometimes mesmerizing in her prose. […]
Fred Gardaphe, rave, FRA NOI
Date: March 16, 2020
Fred Gardaphe, in the October, 2008, FRA NOI (48/10), raves about Earthquake I.D.: “A well focused plot tightly wound… Enough mystery to keep the pages turning while telling a contemporary story that can […]
Mike Ruppert at FTW’s Act 2 Blog: BOOK REVIEW “Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film”
Date: March 16, 2020
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-review-poetry-limousine-midnight.html
Publishers Weekly, September 22, 2008
Date: March 16, 2020
Realistic absurdity ties together the short stories of Sanders’s intelligent and funny collection. Throughout, unsuspecting protagonists become entangled in bizarre (and yet vaguely believable) situations. There’s Nadya, the Moscow-based freelance […]
Publishers Weekly, January 2009
Date: March 16, 2020
The passionate, yet controlled, third volume from Paschen (Infidelities) pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: Paschen watches domestic animals, visits zoos and backyards, and records […]
“The Day My Mother Drowned,” and excerpt from LIVESAVING FOR BEGINNERS
Date: March 16, 2020
Tablet Magazine features an except from Anne Edelstein’s memoir, LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS! In the excerpt, Edelstein recollects the moment her mother, an experienced swimmer, drowned while on vacation at the […]
Peggy Shumaker reviews Allegheny, Monangahela
Date: March 16, 2020
Allegheny, Monongahela Erinn Batykefer. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59709-134-3 Close to the bone, Erinn Batykefer’s poems — sharp-edged as O’Keeffe’s paintings, skeletons visible and harrowing — are […]
The New York Resident reviews Archeology of Desire
Date: March 16, 2020
Archeology of Desire Miriam Sagan. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $8.95 (56p) ISBN 1-888996-32-3 Newly published poetry, which is the focus of this week’s column, rarely receives the level of attention […]