QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE author Diane Thiel’s poem featured in The Common!
Date: May 2, 2022
News & Reviews
News:
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young interviewed by Bomb Magazine!
Date: May 2, 2022
I met Kristen Millares Young at Fort Worden, an Indigenous gathering place taken by the federal government, which installed concrete bunkers in the cliffs overlooking Salish Sea. Decommissioned for military […]
Carlos Allende’s COFFEE, SHOPPING, MURDER, LOVE included in Independent Book Review “45 Books We’re Excited About”!
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Charles Harper Webb featured article in Psychology Today!
Date: April 21, 2022
Tess Taylor featured poem in The Nation!
Date: April 21, 2022
Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY listed as one of Early Bird Books’ “Best Book Club Books!”
Date: April 14, 2022
Shout out to all the book clubs: Don’t let this be the winter of your discontent! There are so many good books out there just waiting to be embraced this […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT author Khalisa Rae wins Best Poet at the Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards!
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
Douglas Kearney interviewed on Commonplace Podcast!
Date: April 12, 2022
Dear Listener, For this, our 99th episode, Rachel welcomes poet, interdisciplinary artist, and professor Douglas Kearney to Commonplace. This conversation, recorded in early November 2021, has been a long time […]
Kim Dower is a guest on The Kathryn Zox Show!
Date: April 12, 2022
Kathryn interviews Author Kim Dower. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, Kim Dower’s poems about motherhood are some of her most moving and disarmingly candid. Culled from her four […]
Brynn Saito writes for Poetry Society of Ameria!
Date: April 7, 2022
In 2003, I was a pre-med undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in philosophy and taking poetry classes on the side—totally scattered, that is to say: lost, alive, lonely, and away […]
Reviews:
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Kirkus reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY in the Second Acts column for the Adroit Journal!
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]
KUOW Book Club reviews Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION
Date: August 7, 2024
Ultimately, this is what makes “Subduction” so effective and gut-wrenching: The characters are human, capable of great kindness and great corruption. The story feels lived in, like an old house […]
BookMarks reviews Jim Tilley’s RIPPLES IN THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Date: July 29, 2024
What a great gift as Tilley proved to be a fine poet and a discerning observer of our world. Educated as a physicist with a PhD from Harvard and having […]
Elom K. Akoto’s BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA is reviwed by Kirkus Review
Date: July 15, 2024
Check out the review on July 19th!
Foreword reviews Sadie Hoagland’s CIRCLE OF ANIMALS
Date: July 15, 2024
In Sadie Hoagland’s novel Circle of Animals, a woman goes through cycles of trauma, motherhood, complicated love, and perseverance in a misogynistic culture.
Library Journal and Elisabeth Clark review Aliah Wright’s NOW YOU OWE ME
Date: July 10, 2024
VERDICT Well-crafted characters will draw in readers, and an intricately woven plot will keep them in their seats. Recommended for fans of Tana French, Gillian Flynn, and Karin Slaughter.
Medium and Liz DeGregorio review Danielle Vogel’s THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY
Date: July 8, 2024
Danielle Vogel’s third book, the 2020 poetry collection The Way a Line Hallucinates Its Own Linearity, is much more than a group of poems elegantly arranged. It’s a conversation between the […]
g emil reutter reviews David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS for North of Oxford!
Date: July 2, 2024
In this memoir, David Mas Masumoto tackles a difficult time in American history as well as his own family history. Intertwined in this history of family, the imprisonment camps where […]