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:
TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT reviewed in the Gay & Lesbian Review!
Date: July 7, 2021
THE TITLE of Judy Grahn’s sixteenth book beckons readers into a world in which all living species share a net of consciousness, a mind as distinct from the brain as […]
BUY ME LOVE by Martha Cooley Reviewed in Foreword Reviews!
Date: June 23, 2021
In Martha Cooley’s novel Buy Me Love, a woman’s lottery win reveals her complicated relationships with money, family, and art. Read the rest of the review here!
Washington Independent reviews A CAMERA OBSCURA by Carl Marcum!
Date: June 17, 2021
In A Camera Obscura, Carl Marcum invites us into the skies with a collection wound around the technical language of astronomy and lived experience on Earth. A poem in sections, “The […]
The Boston Globe reviews THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE by Dariel Suarez!
Date: June 14, 2021
“Taut and propulsive.” – The Boston Globe, review of The Playwright’s House. Click here to read more!
North of Oxford takes a look at A CAMERA OBSCURA (Carl Marcum) and AMERICAN QUASAR (David Campos & Maceo Montoya)
Date: June 14, 2021
As we continue to live our days through the latest chapter in our ever-unfolding, shared pandemic, and emerge from the darker months toward the light of the summer, two new […]
AMERICAN QUASAR by David Campos reviewed in Rhino Poetry!
Date: June 14, 2021
David Campos’s second collection, American Quasar, follows a lonely speaker’s dreams, meditations, and prayers to understand life. Campos juxtaposes inhumanity in the modern United States with inhumanity in the nuclear […]
SINGER COME FROM AFAR author, Kim Stafford, interviewed in Oregon ArtsWatch!
Date: June 10, 2021
After a recent conversation with Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, an idea coalesced for me, that the great energy swap—the invisible exchange between sentient creatures that either fuels or depletes […]
Dariel Suarez’s New Book THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE reviewed on New Pages!
Date: June 9, 2021
Set in Havana, Cuba, The Playwright’s House is an expansive yet intimate novel about a young lawyer Serguey and his family when their father Felipe, a notable theater director, is detained by […]
Sadie Hoagland’s novel STRANGE CHILDREN reviewed in Prism Review!
Date: June 9, 2021
Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novel, Strange Children. Hoagland is a fiction writer from Louisiana with a PhD from the University of Utah in fiction, as well as […]
STRANGE CHILDREN by Sadie Hoagland reviewed in Midwest Book Review!
Date: June 9, 2021
An emotionally intense and deftly crafted novel by an author with a genuine flair for originality and a particularly effective narrative storytelling style, “Strange Children” is an especially and unreservedly […]