Khalisa Rae featured in The Chronicle!
Date: April 19, 2021
On April 17 at the Hayti Heritage Center, seven slam poets competed for a coveted spot on the 2021 Bull City Slam Team. These poets are a part of the […]
News & Reviews
News:
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT on list of “Best Southern Books of April 2021”
Date: April 19, 2021
There are so many wonderful books coming out this month we just want to rave about them all! Since April is National Poetry Month, we included three poetry collections by […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT (Khalisa Rae) listed on Poetry Daily!
Date: April 19, 2021
Wondering what new books have just been published? We seriously consider every book we receive, and we feature poems from many of the best and most interesting collections among them, but […]
Allison Joseph and William Archila featured on LA Times Festival of Books Poetry Stage!
Date: April 19, 2021
Please enjoy these readings on our first ever virtual poetry “stage” produced in partnership with Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Be sure to scroll through the entire page, as there are several […]
THE GRAVEDIGGER’S ARCHEOLOGY poet, William Archila, featured in the LA Times!
Date: April 15, 2021
At dozens of cafes, libraries and bookstores — even a garage in Bell — Southern California teemed with poetry readings and open mike nights before COVID-19 took hold of the world. Some […]
Thea Prieto (FROM THE CAVES) writes article for Poets & Writers!
Date: April 15, 2021
For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women […]
Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT featured in The Root!
Date: April 15, 2021
How does trauma affect the way we live our day-to-day lives? Is inherited or intergenerational trauma more significant than a trauma—or traumas—experienced firsthand? There are perspectives and arguments to consider […]
IN JUNE THE LABYRINTH poet, Cynthia Hogue, reads for The Arkansas International!
Date: April 15, 2021
Take a moment and watch Cynthia Hogue read in celebration of The Arkansas International’s Issue 10 Launch!! Cynthia Hogue’s most recent collections are Revenance (2014), listed as one of the 2014 “Standout” […]
Sadie Hoagland (STRANGE CHILDREN) author-to-author interview in CRAFT Literary!
Date: April 14, 2021
SADIE HOAGLAND: John, I so enjoyed reading The Fear of Everything. Each story balances humor and darkness so well, and each piece held the sort of “good surprises” I love in fiction—the […]
Jennifer Risher guests on Working Wife, Happy Life podcast!
Date: April 14, 2021
Ep 33 – Talking about Money & Wealth w/ Jennifer Risher What’s your relationship with money? How about your partner’s relationship with money? Do you talk about it? Does it […]
Reviews:
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus
Date: March 16, 2020
Janice Eidus Gives Voice to Adolescent Virgin Vampire The Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of FateThe Last Jewish Virgin: A Novel of Fate by Janice Eidus My rating: 4 of […]
City Paper Praises My Body is a Book of Rules!
Date: March 16, 2020
Rebekah Kirkman of City Paper praised Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules. “Though the shifts from one chapter to the next can be awkward and jarring, Washuta […]
Midwest Book Review praises A HALFMAN DREAMING
Date: March 16, 2020
Thanks to Midwest Book Review for this fantastic praise, saying A HALFMAN DREAMING is “an enticing read that is sure to provoke much to think about… [and] an excellent and fine literary […]
Anthony Hecht reviews The Alarming Beauty of our Sky
Date: March 16, 2020
The Alarming Beauty of the Sky Leslie Monsour. Red Hen (CDC
“the only other poet who plies risk against reward so deftly is Pound.”
Date: March 16, 2020
Strong Verse reviews Ernest Hilbert’s Sixty Sonnets. First let me say that Ernie Hilbert is a sneaky bastard for including the Bauman’s Rare Books Catalogue in the package that delivered his […]
SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS reviews EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Huge thanks to the Seattle Review of Books for this great review on EAT LESS WATER, saying that these “deeply personal stories, told with love and care” “could not have come at […]
THE NIGHTLIFE praised by Kenyon Review
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen’s THE NIGHTLIFE was recently reviewed by the Kenyon Review in their October 2017 microreviews! The lovely Janet McAdams says, “Paschen’s work has always seemed to me infused by […]
Coming Home to Roost
Date: March 16, 2020
In a previous post called Blogging and the Memoir Community I promised to review DeWitt Henry’s memoir called Safe Suicide because he was the first published author who found me […]
“Residue”creates a “funny, bizarre, and ultimately satisfying experience” for Blotterature
Date: March 16, 2020
“Residue” leaves its’ readers wondering “whodunit” and what happens next! If you enjoy “humor in absurdity”, look no further
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph’s Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: March 6, 2020
Allison Joseph’s, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of the speaker?s personal lives. […]