GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT and gossypiin featured in Book Riot!
Date: January 18, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
Jim Peterson talks about THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS on Fall For the Book Podcast!
Date: January 11, 2022
Jim Peterson takes readers on a surreal journey in his short story collection The Sadness of Whirlwinds. In this first episode of the 2022 season of The Fall for the […]
Jennifer Risher discusses her 14-year memoir WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH, in her new podcast on Apple!
Date: January 5, 2022
There’s a ancient saying that money is not so much the problem; it’s the love of money that causes the trouble. There’s another truth about the topic: It’s really hard […]
Kristen Millares Young author of SUBDUCTION, joins three other authors in conversation about the body in KUOW!
Date: January 5, 2022
This conversation is wide ranging, touching on health and the internal experiences of having a body, as well as the external forces and cruelty that can impact the body. Our […]
Check out David Mason’s, author of THE SOUND: NEW & SELECTED POEMS, new article on LA Review of Books!
Date: January 4, 2022
MY FATHER’S PAINT BOX was made of leather-covered wood, worn at the corners so the wood showed through. As a child, I loved opening that box, looking at the inner […]
The Playwright’s House was a staff pick as a favorite 2021 read from WBUR!
Date: January 4, 2022
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and for some of us, it ushers in a period of time away from work. Couple that with omicron forcing many of us inside and away […]
Red Hen Poet Cynthia Hogue Selected as Guest Editor for the Academy American Poets Poem-a-Day!
Date: December 15, 2021
The Academy of American Poets is pleased to announce twelve new Poem-a-Day guest editors who will each curate a month of poems in 2022. The guest editors are all award-winning […]
Jennifer Rishner interviewed for Robb Report!
Date: December 14, 2021
Philanthropy is changing. Spurred by the Covid-19 crisis, America’s racial reckoning, increasingly frequent climate disasters and a profound sense that traditional ways of giving are insufficient to meet burgeoning needs, […]
Jennifer Rishner interviewed for Philanthropy!
Date: December 14, 2021
The San Francisco philanthropists Jennifer and David Risher believe so strongly that rich donors should give more of the money in their donor-advised funds to charities, and more quickly, that […]
A poem by Kim Stafford is the featured poem of the day on Verse Daily!
Date: November 30, 2021
Reviews:
A Review to Die For!
Date: January 24, 2011
Ron Slate reviews New Hope for the Dead: Uncollected William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly!"The poem features the Horatian qualities one associates with Matthews…"The rest of Slate's […]
Janice Eidus is a Midwest Success in 2011
Date: January 12, 2011
Janice Eidus' The Last Jewish Virgin has a place on the Midwest Book Review's "Small Press Review" fiction shelf for January 2011!"Vampires are a staple of literature, but Janice Eidus […]
Amy Lemmon Receives Centrum Praise
Date: January 5, 2011
Amy Lennon's collection of poetry, "Saint Nobody", received an in-depth review from the craft-focused community of Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington!"Poet Amy Lemmon, whose just-released collection Saint Nobody is now […]
Kurt Brown Lit Up 2010
Date: January 5, 2011
Rigoberto Gonzalez of The National Booki Critics Circle named Kurt Brown's collection of poems, No Other Paradise, as a 2010 Small Press Highlight!"If other poets examine the mysteries of our […]
Adventure to Momo-Jima
Date: January 5, 2011
Scott Brown received a wonderful review in the 2010 Hawaii Edition Review for his "brilliant political farce", Far Afield."Far Afield is an enormously entertaining novel that exposes our media’s preoccupation […]
Summer Brenner lassoed into the 2010 Local Book Roundup
Date: January 5, 2011
"As we near the end of this year in which America went broke, got high, and watched J.D. Salinger (and Gary Coleman) die, let's celebrate the East Bay's literary contributions […]
Janice Eidus as one of the Best Books of 2010!
Date: January 5, 2011
January Magazine names Janice Eidus's The Last Jewish Virgin as one of the best books of 2010. "The Last Jewish Virgin is quite beyond the sum of its parts." — […]
Book Notes – Rob Roberge (Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life”)”
Date: December 14, 2010
Book Notes – Rob Roberge ("Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life")In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way […]
Presenting…the 2010 Nobbie Awards
Date: December 14, 2010
Presenting…the 2010 Nobbie Awardsby GREG OLEAR NEW PALTZ, N.Y. 11 December 2010 From: TheNervousBreakdown.com Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My LifeRob RobergeIn the tradition of Jesus' Son, this […]
You should be reading Summer Brenner
Date: December 14, 2010
You should be reading Summer Brenner THE title story of Summer Brenner's "My Life in Clothes" is a fierce and funny slip of a thing. "Early on, my cousin, Peggy, […]