AMERICAN BASTARD listed as a top ten Great Summer Read in Pittsburgh Magazine!
Date: May 17, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM a Los Angeles Times BESTSELLER!
Date: May 12, 2022
According to a report by the California Independent Booksellers Association, Kim Dower’s I Wore This Dress Today For You, Mom is Number 6 on the list of Top 10 hardcover […]
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM is a SoCal Indie Bookstore Bestseller!
Date: May 11, 2022
The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended May 8 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. […]
Beth Gilstrap’s DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize in Fiction!
Date: May 9, 2022
The Stanford Libraries has announced the shortlist for the tenth William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize), a Prize intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the […]
Manzanita Papers picks BOY OH BOY for its 9th subscription box!
Date: May 5, 2022
Kim Dower interviewed in The San Diego Union-Tribune!
Date: May 5, 2022
Charles Harper Webb writes for Shepherd!
Date: May 5, 2022
Kim Stafford poem featured in Poets.org
Date: May 3, 2022
I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM author Kim Dower discusses her relationship with her mom in Oprah Daily!
Date: May 2, 2022
My lifelong relationship with poetry began at five with my mother’s reading A.A. Milne’s Now We Are Six—“They’re changing guard at Buckingham Palace/Christopher Robin went down with Alice” to me, which […]
Frederick Morgan’s EPILOGUE selected as a Critic’s Pick in the New Criterion
Date: May 2, 2022
Frederick Morgan, Epilogue: Selected and Last Poems, edited by Paula Deitz (Red Hen Press): “Fred Morgan managed to have three distinguished literary careers,” we noted in our pages at the time of his […]
Reviews:
Compelling Clarity of Insight: John Domini on DeWitt Henry’s Safe Suicide
Date: May 7, 2009
Review by John Domini in GENTLY READ LITERATURE, December 2008It's called creative non-fiction, and these days there's just no stopping it. More and more commercial publishing depends on the memoir, […]
Safe Suicide: review by Rand Richards Cooper
Date: May 7, 2009
Safe Suicide reviewed by Rand Richards Cooper in AMHERST MAGAZINE, fall 2008In Safe Suicide, the Boston-based novelist, professor and editor DeWitt Henry has collected his autobiographical essays first published in […]
DeWitt Henry and the Anxiety of Self-Discovery: by Thomas Larson
Date: May 7, 2009
Andrew Kozma’s review in American Book Reviews
Date: May 6, 2009
"Green is an intensely formal poet–not in tone, but in construction. Look at that table of contents again: five groups of ten. A desire for symmetry, some revelatory order. He […]
4-stars, Emerging Writers Network
Date: May 6, 2009
Dan Wickett, on the widely-read blog for his Emerging Writers Network, lists Earthquake I.D. as one of the best books of 2007, and awards it 4 stars. "A great, jam-packed […]
Thomas Burke, long rave review, LITERARY REVIEW
Date: May 6, 2009
Praise for Earthquake I.D. from Thomas Burke, in THE LITERARY REVIEW (50/3, Spring 2007): "an exploration of contrasts: opulence and destitution; the loved, the loving, and the dissatisfied; intractable guilt, […]
Library Journal Issue 5/Arts and Humanities
Date: May 2, 2009
"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]
Tara Betts Reviews Camille Dungy’s What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]