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:
Escape Pod reviews Fade to Black
Date: April 24, 2012
In a recent review, Escape Pod had this to say about Fade to Black by Josh Pryor- "If you like science, CSI, stories that take place in Antarctica, or lots-of-people-crammed-into-a-small-space-slowly-going-mad, […]
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot: An excellent review from NewPages
Date: April 13, 2012
Cheryl Wright-Watkins for NewPages had this to say about Brian Doyle's Bin Laden's Bald Spot: "[Bin Laden's Bald Spot] would be a wonderful introduction to a reader unfamiliar with Doyle's […]
Rigoberto Gonzalez says Bravo” to Lillian-Yvonne Bertram “
Date: April 12, 2012
Rigoberto Gonzalez gives praise for Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise in the latest Harriett blog, saying: "But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise is a rich […]
The Courier-Journal gives praise to Lynnell Edwards’ Covet
Date: April 12, 2012
The Courier-Journal's Kathleen Driskell had this to say about Lynnell Edwards' Covet: "A reader of poetry is in good hands with Edwards' work. Her language allows accessible entry into her […]
Martin Ott reviews and connects to O’Donnell’s Steam Laundry
Date: March 23, 2012
In a recent Writeliving's Blog post, author Martin Ott talks about his connection to fellow Alaskan Nicole Stellon O'Donnell, and her new collection of poetry, Steam Laundry. "[Steam Laundry is] […]
Books in Brief reviews Michael Quadland’s Offspring
Date: March 19, 2012
Veteran David Willson has just reviewed Offspring on "Books in Brief," an online feature that complements “Books in Review,” which runs in The VVA Veteran, the national magazine of Vietnam […]
Cult. Bomb raves about Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe!
Date: March 16, 2012
Cult. Bomb author Danielle Mitchell recently blogged this about Calamity Joe, Brendan Constantine's newest collection of poems from Red Hen Press: "Here there is wonder, earth, humor, rancid, lameness, shimmer, […]
Room Service gets a great review on Shelf Awareness
Date: March 14, 2012
Shelf Awareness' Tom Lavoie has this to say about Ron Carlson's Room Service: "The poems and prose pieces in Room Service are thoughtful, witty, sad and hopeful–rarely angry or mad. […]
Arthur J. Kubick praises Blase Bonpane’s Imagine No Religion!
Date: March 7, 2012
In a recent Catholic Books Review article, Arthur J. Kubick had this to say about Imagine No Religion: The Autobiography of Blase Bonpane – "This fascinating autobiography takes the reader […]
Phati’tude Literary Magazine loves Suck on the Marrow by Camille Dungy!
Date: February 27, 2012
“Dungy captures the human heart and soul in her characters while illustrating the rawness of their suffering with gracefully blatant and rebellious passion.” – Phati'tude Literary Magazine The full text […]