QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE author Diane Thiel’s poem featured in The Common!
Date: May 2, 2022
Date: May 2, 2022
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 […]
Date: May 2, 2022
A campy dark comedy for the angry and the disenchanted.
Date: April 21, 2022
Date: April 21, 2022
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 […]
Date: April 13, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS, Khalisa, on a well-deserved win! For the full list of winners, click below!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: January 18, 2013
Amos Lassen calls Speaking Wiri Wiri a rich and witty history: "There is a poem for everyone here and themes such as identity, migration, family, history, ethnicity and others can […]
Date: January 11, 2013
Iris Jamahl Dunkle from Sugar House Review praises New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 by Robert Sward.- "Indeed, the winding road offered by New and Selected Poems 1957–2011 is a fruitful, […]
Date: January 4, 2013
CL Bledsoe from Coal Hill Review was thrilled to read Jessy Randall's collection: "Randall's poems waste no words: they are often short but pack a powerful punch. Her language is […]
Date: January 2, 2013
Jessica Dyer from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.- "Like the strands of DNA that make up living things, like the strings […]
Date: December 19, 2012
Abby Soto from The Seattle Lesbian applauds Kelly Barth's memoir: "My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that […]
Date: December 12, 2012
Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows is praised by Lisa Grove from the California Journal of Poetics.- “By the end of Injecting Dreams into Cows Randall has created a time […]
Date: November 28, 2012
Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone is reviewed by Mead magazine for their Fall 2012 volume.- "This first collection is marked by the authority and fearlessness of the voice, one willing […]
Date: November 9, 2012
Sandra Knauf praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows for Rattle.- "Her scope is kaleidoscopic. She treasures and shares found poems. She digs deep and uses all the emotions in […]
Date: November 8, 2012
DLKeur from The Deepening reviews and praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows.- Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave […]
Date: November 8, 2012
Dan Barnett reviews Gary Lemons' reading of Snake at the Butte College Reading Series. To read the full review, click