A poem by Kim Stafford is the featured poem of the day on Verse Daily!
Date: November 30, 2021
News & Reviews
News:
Nikki Moustaki’s EXTREMELY LIGHTWEIGHT GUNS Named Best Book of 2021 by the New York Public Library!
Date: November 29, 2021
M. Soledad Caballero featured in TuftsNow!
Date: November 23, 2021
When M. Soledad Caballero, AG02, thinks back to her childhood, she remembers not one, but two. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1973, the year a group of military officers seized power from then-president […]
Beth Gilstrap, author of DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES, interviewed for Southern Review of Books
Date: November 23, 2021
Whether reading her beautifully-detailed descriptions of place in the outstanding “What Magic” and “Lake Hartwell, South Carolina” or diving into the hurt but determined mind of Layla in “Still Soft, […]
Thea Prieto, author of FROM THE CAVES, will be at The Neverending Bookshop!
Date: November 18, 2021
The Neverending Bookshop is thrilled to host local author Thea Prieto and her book “From the Caves”. Set in an environmental apocalypse, this lovely book follows four characters as they […]
FROM THE CAVES featured in Literary North’s holiday book gift recommendations!
Date: November 18, 2021
Who knows better what to recommend for holiday reading and gifting than our beloved independent booksellers? We asked several Vermont bookstores what they were recommending to customers this year because […]
Thea Prieto’s IN THE CAVES is a finalist for the American Book Fest 2021 Best Book Awards!
Date: November 18, 2021
NEW MOONS Selected as November Pick in Santa Fe Reporter!
Date: November 17, 2021
Jan Beatty, AMERICAN BASTARD author, interviewed on Skylight Books Podcast!
Date: November 16, 2021
American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents–and continents of desire as Jan Beatty finds her birthfather, […]
MOON JAR Author Didi Jackson Featured by Vanderbilt University!
Date: November 15, 2021
“Sometimes our motivations aren’t what we asked for—they are given to us.” That is the experience of Visiting Assistant Professor of English Didi Jackson, who joined Vanderbilt’s College of Arts […]
Reviews:
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: January 3, 2023
Mason is a poet defined by place, if it is Southeast Asia on the Pacific Rim or Northwest America, his poems breathe life of the people around him as well […]
Spill Magazine Recommends Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: December 13, 2022
Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. When they relocated to England and settled […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu Reviewed on Patch!
Date: December 5, 2022
A refreshing book, I thought – a collection of short stories that this reviewer started from the beginning rather than picking and choosing which story to read next, based on […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel Reviewed in the Florida Review!
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel’s third collection of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, comes after an interlude during which the poet devoted her energies to a travel memoir (The White Horse) and the translation […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT Reviewed in LA Review of Books!
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
The Friday Poem recommends Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS Receives a Starred Kirkus Review!
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]
Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE Earns a Kirkus Star!
Date: November 17, 2022
A mordantly tender triumph rich with natural imagery. Uschuk’s poetry collection calls out authoritarianism and social injustice. This moving set of poems offer messages of hope as it addresses timely […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: November 16, 2022
“Paired with artist Patricia Wakida’s haunting illustrations, the book’s rich, lyrical language evokes both cultural eloquence and California’s seasonal beauty. Poignant and reflective, Secret Harvests is a family saga of […]