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:
REFUGEE by Pamela Uschuk reviewed in Rain Taxi
Date: August 22, 2022
“’So you think that you can live remote / from city streets paved with bullet casings, / mass shootings in churches, refugee mothers in cages,’ Pamela Uschuk questions in ‘A […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Emily Wall’s BREAKING INTO AIR and Marybeth Holleman’s TENDER GRAVITY!
Date: August 21, 2022
Boreal Books, founded and edited by Peggy Shumaker, a former Alaska writer laureate, has since 2008 been publishing exemplary poetry and prose by Alaskans. This summer it’s brought forth two […]
Booktrib reviews MONKEY BUSINESS by Carleton Eastlake
Date: August 9, 2022
“Inside their heads, humans are caught in a civil war between the little gleam of intelligence they want to believe is them and the animal which that spark of intelligence evolved to […]
Ruyan Meng’s ONLY THE CAT KNOWS reviewed in Asian Review of Books
Date: August 8, 2022
“Set in rural China during the 1970s, Ruyan Meng’s debut novel Only the Cat Knows is told from the point of view of a young factory worker married to a woman who […]
ONLY THE CAT KNOWS by Ruyan Meng reviewed in Soapberry Review!
Date: August 4, 2022
“A bicycle on which to commute to work. A sewing machine with which to sew new clothes. Eggs, milk, and meat to cure his children of malnutrition. These are a […]
New Criterion reviews THE DISCARDED LIFE by Adam Kirsch!
Date: August 3, 2022
The Discarded Life: Poems, by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen): “Do details matter?” asks the poet Adam Kirsch in his new collection The Discarded Life—and even if they don’t, the perspicuity […]
Readers’ Favorite calls Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE “a treasure trove of intelligent musings”!
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel’s much-awaited anthology of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, is worth the wait. This collection is divided into four parts, each touching on a particular subject or idea that […]
Diane Thiel’s QUESTIONS FROM OUTER SPACE Reviewed on The Line Break!
Date: July 21, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, and Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022) is her third collection of poems. I purchased […]
‘Pamela Uschuk’s REFUGEE – Poems of Beauty & Anger’ A Review by Joseph Ross
Date: July 21, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is, in my view, one of our country’s best poets. Her new book, REFUGEE, shows precisely why. Her poems rise up from careful craft, scattering beauty, detailed descriptions, merged […]
‘Technology and Human Connection’ a Review Of I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS
Date: July 21, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s I Only Cry with Emoticons tells the story of a damaged man trying to finish his novel as he wades through divorce, an unfulfilling work life, and complex […]