Date: November 5, 2020
Join Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon with Jonathan Escoffery, Wendy C. Ortiz, Siel Ju, Andrés Reconco, Kathleen Mackay, and Nina Revoyr ZYZZYVA closes out its year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary with the publication of Issue No. 119—the […]
Date: November 4, 2020
Risher’s memoir shares conversations with friends and family and her own inner dialogue, following her evolution after realizing that she and her husband were not just successful professionals but hugely […]
Date: November 4, 2020
Walt Whitman, Judith Harris And Whitman Again: What To Read On Election Day MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And now to help you stay steady through this long night, some poetry, […]
Date: November 4, 2020
While writing this and the next few stories in the collection, I was interested in exploring the threshold between childhood and adulthood and how fraught this period is with anxiety, […]
Date: November 2, 2020
Following her live Women Lit conversation with Robin Richards Donohoe, Jennifer talked with us about the dream of wealth versus the reality, how to do philanthropy right in the midst […]
Date: November 2, 2020
Subduction by Kristen Millares Young In this debut novel by Cuban American journalist Kristen Millares Young, Mexican American anthropologist Claudia flees Seattle for the Olympic Peninsula Makah reservation after her husband […]
Date: November 2, 2020
In today’s episode listen to the conversation between host Daniel Chacon and poet Francisco Aragon about his most recent work ‘About Rubén.’ Aragon’s poems and translations have appeared in various […]
Date: October 31, 2020
On October 30th, Keith Flynn wowed us with poems and music, including new work from “The Skin of Meaning.” Thanks, Keith, for a wonderful afternoon, and we look forward to […]
Date: October 28, 2020
The occasion was the publication of Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, a collection of essays and poems about literature and social change, curated by author and journalist Kristen Millares Young. The […]
Date: October 22, 2020
“Plot does not come naturally to me. Instead of staring at a blank page hoping for inspiration, I take a long walk and dictate to myself using my phone’s recording […]
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 […]
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 […]
Date: July 11, 2022
Questions From Outer Space is about coming to terms with humanity’s destructive choices and orienting ourselves to life as a result. Diane Thiel’s poems lament our destruction of planet Earth and […]
Date: July 7, 2022
Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love is a delightful beach read, a lampoon of American culture that provides plenty of suspenseful fun.
Date: July 7, 2022
Charlie, who has never found anything he doesn’t like to talk about, and Jignesh, a quiet, overweight East Indian business manager and embezzler, meet through a gay dating site. They […]
Date: July 6, 2022
For three decades, the novelist and short story writer John Weir has been spooling out wry, wrenching narratives that ground us in time and place. Now, Red Hen Press has […]
Date: July 5, 2022
Yuvi Zalkow’s novel I Only Cry with Emoticons is a defense of the personal encounter. As technology has become more advanced, we have become increasingly reliant on communicating via screens. Emojis have […]
Date: June 29, 2022
Set as justified rectangles of text, often comprising a single, elaborate sentence on a page, the poems in Eamon Grennan’s new collection Plainchant (“these plain words—to be taken out at times of need”) appear […]
Date: June 29, 2022
Ellen Meeropol is a fearless writer. When she picks up her pen and follows her characters, she goes to places and situations lesser writers might avoid: a young pregnant woman […]
Date: June 21, 2022
John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant yet unsentimental testimony from […]
