Chapter 16 features a poem from Gaylord Brewer’s collection WORSHIP THE PIG!
Date: December 14, 2020
To read “Caretaker” from Brewer’s collection visit the link below!
News & Reviews
News:
Harvard Review Online features Francisco Aragón’s AFTER RUBÉN.
Date: December 14, 2020
A post-confessional collection by Francisco Aragón, After Rubén probes personal history, political identity, and place. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and Aragón’s collection in response to Rubén Darío’s work shows his […]
Rivkin’s SUITOR featured in Memorious Mag!
Date: December 10, 2020
Welcome to our latest round-up of contributor books, featuring books published in the last half of 2020. (You can catch our round-up for the first half of 2020 here.) Below, you will […]
Utah Public Radio interviews Katharine Coles on her collection “WAYWARD”
Date: December 9, 2020
Katharine Coles, former Utah Poet Laureate and current Distinguished Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah, joins us today for Access Utah to talk about her […]
Jennifer Risher & David Risher on Moms Don’t Have Time To Read Books podcast!
Date: December 9, 2020
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH and her husband David Risher join Zibby Owens for a podcast. Listen on Youtube, iTunes or read the […]
Substantial Q&A with Didi Jackson on MOON JAR. Thank you Adroit Journal!
Date: December 9, 2020
Benjamin Aleshire sits down with Didi Jackson in a conversation about her collection MOON JAR. Read the full interview here!
Tea by the Sea & High Skies featured in “books you may have missed”
Date: December 7, 2020
Photographer Matt Witt has a large list of media you may have missed. Donna Hemans’ Tea by the Sea and Tracy Daughtery’s High Skies have been featured in the list. […]
Rex Wilder and Ron Koertge to present at Vroman’s Bookstore virtual event!
Date: December 7, 2020
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. […]
ANIMAL WIFE wins BEST book cover of the year at Electric Literature!
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article […]
Q&A with Jennifer Risher, writing on tough topics!
Date: December 7, 2020
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the […]
Reviews:
DeWitt Henry and the Anxiety of Self-Discovery: by Thomas Larson
Date: May 7, 2009
Andrew Kozma’s review in American Book Reviews
Date: May 6, 2009
"Green is an intensely formal poet–not in tone, but in construction. Look at that table of contents again: five groups of ten. A desire for symmetry, some revelatory order. He […]
4-stars, Emerging Writers Network
Date: May 6, 2009
Dan Wickett, on the widely-read blog for his Emerging Writers Network, lists Earthquake I.D. as one of the best books of 2007, and awards it 4 stars. "A great, jam-packed […]
Thomas Burke, long rave review, LITERARY REVIEW
Date: May 6, 2009
Praise for Earthquake I.D. from Thomas Burke, in THE LITERARY REVIEW (50/3, Spring 2007): "an exploration of contrasts: opulence and destitution; the loved, the loving, and the dissatisfied; intractable guilt, […]
Library Journal Issue 5/Arts and Humanities
Date: May 2, 2009
"Everything I write requires this: Alphabet." A child sees letters first, "shape distinguishing itself from its background," but soon we lose the innocence of that first encounter to ideas of […]
Tara Betts Reviews Camille Dungy’s What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Date: April 24, 2009
Dungy's first poetry collection offers a number of ways to look at what is considered to be a part of nature, whether it is a part of the plants or […]
Sholeh Wolpe’s Rooftops of Tehran
Date: April 22, 2009
Sholeh Wolpe's Rooftops of Tehran is that truly rare event: an important book of poetry. Brushing against the grain of Persian-Islamic culture, she sings a deep affection for what she […]
The Critic’s Pen review of Future Ship
Date: April 19, 2009
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
One Poet’s Notes, Valparaiso Poetry Review
Date: April 18, 2009
http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/2007/04/leslie-heywood-proving-grounds.htmlMONDAY, APRIL 2, 2007Leslie Heywood: THE PROVING GROUNDSLeafing through the work in Leslie Heywood's premiere book of poetry, The Proving Grounds, one quickly becomes accustomed to uncovering sometimes uncomfortable and […]
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Southern Register
Date: April 16, 2009
"In the debut collection from Kentucky poet Nickole Brown, readers experience the pleasures of poetry "the illuminated moment reverberating" as well as the pleasures of the novel–the narrative unfurling, driven […]