David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, wrote for LARB!
Date: June 1, 2022
A society is only as healthy as its teachers. Ours, you might say, is in trouble, partly because our teachers often feel underappreciated and unseen. Yet most of us can […]
News & Reviews
News:
“Mosaic in Pompeii” by Diane Thiel featured in Verse Daily!
Date: June 1, 2022
Today’s poem is by Diane Thiel “A misunderstanding of a fresco,a figure with papyrus on the east wall.Someone assumed wrong two centuries ago,but the name remained—the House of the Tragic Poet.
URSULA LAKE author Charles Harper Webb interviewed by Poet Runner!
Date: June 1, 2022
Charles Harper Webb, author of Ursula Lake, talks to the podcast, “Poet Runner.”
Author of SUBDUCTION Kristen Millares Young Interviewed on Bomb Magazine!
Date: June 1, 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 […]
Gary Lemons featured on Postcards!
Date: May 31, 2022
Welcome to Postcards! Grandma loves this show!Today we enjoy a chat with—and some readings by—internationally recognized poet GARY LEMONS (Port Townsend, WA).In honor of National Poetry Month, Jenny sits down […]
The Writer’s Almanac reads SINGER COME FROM AFAR author Kim Stafford’s poem!
Date: May 25, 2022
Garrison Keillor reads Kim Stafford’s “Advice from a Raindrop.”
Part 2 of Gary Lemons’ Interview Series with Behind the Vision podcast!
Date: May 24, 2022
“Hey, this is Chris from Behind the Vision and you’re listening to our second interview with Gary Lemons to discuss his quartet series SNAKE!”
John Weir interviewed in Grab Magazine!
Date: May 24, 2022
Pamela Uschuk’s “Web” featured in The Long Islander Newspaper!
Date: May 24, 2022
SUBDUCTION author Kristen Millares Young will speak on a panel at Orcas Island Lit Fest!
Date: May 23, 2022
Saturday brings the main event: The festival’s featured authors will take to the stage for readings of their work and panel discussions like “Women Who Confound Expectations,” wherein Sonora Jha, Kristen […]
Reviews:
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Kirkus Starred Review!
Date: January 3, 2023
A moving and musical set of poetic works. Bell’s second collection of poems offers a portrait of motherhood, devastation, and hope. The author’s first collection of poems, Bright Stain (2019),was a finalist […]
Louder Than War reviews Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: January 3, 2023
Sometime Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich takes a detailed trip back in time, to catalogue the band’s journey from shoe-string budget experimentalists to internationally esteemed sound artists. Peter Ulrich […]
North of Oxford reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: January 3, 2023
Mason is a poet defined by place, if it is Southeast Asia on the Pacific Rim or Northwest America, his poems breathe life of the people around him as well […]
Spill Magazine Recommends Peter Ulrich’s DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE AND PARALLEL ADVENTURES!
Date: December 13, 2022
Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. When they relocated to England and settled […]
IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME by Pete Hsu Reviewed on Patch!
Date: December 5, 2022
A refreshing book, I thought – a collection of short stories that this reviewer started from the beginning rather than picking and choosing which story to read next, based on […]
QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE by Diane Thiel Reviewed in the Florida Review!
Date: November 30, 2022
Diane Thiel’s third collection of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, comes after an interlude during which the poet devoted her energies to a travel memoir (The White Horse) and the translation […]
Adam Kirsch’s THE DISCARDED LIFE reviewed in Literary Matters!
Date: November 30, 2022
The evolution of blank verse from Milton to Wordsworth, via Cowper, was not solely a change in diction and subject matter. Even as classical and biblical themes were displaced by […]
David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT Reviewed in LA Review of Books!
Date: November 21, 2022
A POET KNOWN for his narratives, like Ludlow, the acclaimed historical-novel-in-verse turned opera, David Mason curates the archipelago of intensely satisfying lyric poems in Pacific Light with the skill of a consummate storyteller. […]
The Friday Poem recommends Ron Koertge’s I DREAMED I WAS EMILY DICKINSON’S BOYFRIEND
Date: November 21, 2022
Koertge inhabits – and endows – his various subjects with insight and humour, dealing out poems in the voices of car crash dummies, Aphrodite, Mickey Mouse, Little Red Riding Hood, […]
David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida’s SECRET HARVESTS Receives a Starred Kirkus Review!
Date: November 17, 2022
A simultaneously elegant and sharp-edged exploration of the hidden past. “I am haunted by gaps in family memories, nebulous responses and twisted behavior that must be examined within the context […]