Three poems by Kim Stafford, author of SINGER COME FROM AFAR, featured in POETRY Magazine’s March issue!
Date: April 14, 2021
At the Student Poetry Reading Equinox: Greta in Poland Before the Rains Had Come Read the poems here!
News & Reviews
News:
Author Maurya Simon recently published an article on “poets in society” in The Press-Enterprise.
Date: April 13, 2021
Our hopes are reborn in spring, and as winter’s cold winds morph into April’s warming breezes, we may experience a quickening of our pulses, a lightening of our steps. But […]
The Atlantic features POWER MADE US SWOON poet Brynn Saito for National Poetry Month!
Date: April 12, 2021
April is National Poetry Month. Writers from around our newsroom share the poems they’re turning to as the nation defrosts… One day above me / men with bony shoulders came […]
Check out what Red Hen is up to THIS FRIDAY on Colorado Boulevard.net!
Date: April 12, 2021
ArtNight Pasadena, the city’s signature cultural event produced by the Cultural Affairs Division in partnership with partner organizations, will take place online with links going live at 6:00 pm on April 16, […]
Marie Tozier, author of OPEN THE DARK, will be featured in Skagway’s 12th Annual North Words Writers Symposium!
Date: April 12, 2021
The dates for Skagway’s 12th annual North Words Writers Symposium are now Sept. 3-5. The move from its usual time in late May to Labor Day weekend will enable North […]
Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK, featured in UBS on Air: Conversations
Date: April 12, 2021
Jennifer Risher, a beneficiary of the dot-com boom and author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir about Wealth, joins Judy Spalthoff, Head of Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services, to […]
Listen to WE NEED TO TALK author Jen Risher on The Development Debrief!
Date: April 8, 2021
Jennifer came into significant wealth in her early 30’s. Over the years, her wealth has grown to a number she never could have imagined. She chose to write her memoir […]
A GYPSY’S BOOK OF REVELATION & AMERICAN QUASAR featured in this months issue of ShelfUnbound!
Date: April 7, 2021
Take a look at the cover! It may share some resemblance to the cover of A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation! Also don’t forget to read the in-depth interviews with the […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae listed on WRAL
Date: April 7, 2021
As a reader and native North Carolinian, I love finding books that are set in NC and/or written by fellow NC folks. Since becoming a bookseller, I’ve been astounded by […]
Rex Wilder’s poem featured on the National Review!
Date: April 7, 2021
Rex Wilder, author of BOOMERANGS IN THE LIVING ROOM and WAKING BODIES reads “Dolphins on Glass” Listen to the poem here!
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES by Good River Review
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
The Markaz Review calls Laila Halaby’s memoir THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS “fearlessly authentic,” “vulnerable,” and “haunting.”
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
Madeleine Nakamura receives a five star review of “Cursebreakers” from AuthorLink.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]
Madeleine Nakamura’s CURSEBREAKERS receives STARRED Book Review from Independent Book Review!
Date: August 15, 2023
CURSEBREAKERS by Madeleine Nakamura is a novel as electric as the lightning-bolt magic its protagonist wields, filled with curses, destruction, and piercing heartache. Sometimes vicious and violent; all times spectacular […]
Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER receives stellar review on Poetry Foundation!
Date: August 10, 2023
“Poems like these are as two-sided as Vuong’s title instrument: a zither plucked and plucked, played upon and snatched away. For every touch of warmth and musicality, she admits something […]