“Language” by Camille T. Dungy Featured in a Nature Walk
Date: September 3, 2020
Retreat Farm in Vermont featured “Language” as part of a nature walk. Check it out if you’re in the area!
Date: September 3, 2020
Retreat Farm in Vermont featured “Language” as part of a nature walk. Check it out if you’re in the area!
Date: September 3, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Washington state and the nation hard in March, Seattle author and journalist Jennifer Haupt’s latest book deal was canceled. Like many others, her creativity felt stymied. “I just had […]
Date: September 3, 2020
We Need to Talk by Jennifer Risher When Jennifer Risher joined Microsoft in 1991, she met her husband, and with him became an extra-lucky beneficiary of the dot-com boom. By […]
Date: August 31, 2020
From the moment I read it, this line of poetry sat heavy on my mind, encapsulating, for me, the root of identity and the acknowledgement of its inescapability. It churned […]
Date: August 31, 2020
Lara Ehrlich recommends fiction by women about mythological and psychological metamorphoses. The Little Mermaid sacrifices her tail for a human soul. The Navajo Changing Woman grows old and is reborn […]
Date: August 31, 2020
Three poet laureates deliver their poems as a beacon of hope during these unprecendted times of fear, uncertainty, and isolatio Watch the video here!
Date: August 31, 2020
A pen. Some paper. A bit of inspiration. A quiet place to think. Of all the things a writer needs, it’s the last one that’s the hardest to come by. […]
Date: August 27, 2020
Kim Dower reads “They took the mailbox away” from her collection “Air Kissing on Mars” Watch the full video here.
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram receives a great review from Rain Taxi.- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise locates the human in a large context, vacillating between the cosmic and […]
Date: July 2, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise receives an excellent review from Late Night Library.- "Bertram is beyond fearless in her refusal to make reading simple…[her] work can […]
Date: June 26, 2013
Publishers Weekly praises the "close attention to the texture and sound of language" in the poems found in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.– "The confessional and historical poems in Taylor’s […]
Date: June 25, 2013
Hoffert of Library Journal applauds Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife– “A pleasure for any reader; in this collection, ‘the straw of the day, bushel after bushel of it, slowly/ turns […]
Date: June 21, 2013
James A. Cox from Midwest Book Review recommends The Earth Is Not Flat by Katharine Coles to readers of poetry.- "With humor and insight, The Earth Is Not Flat is […]
Date: June 21, 2013
Douglas Lord from Library Journal adds John Van Kirk's Song for Chance to his BEA "Books for Dudes" list.- "Debut novelist Van Kirk delivers the highly authentic story of melancholy, […]
Date: June 14, 2013
Doris Lynch discusses her take on Tess Taylor's The Forage House. “This first collection reveals a poet with a fully formed voice and involving subject matter…the genealogy she presents provides […]
Date: June 13, 2013
Linda Rodriguez Writes applauds Vera's new work, Speaking Wiri Wiri: “Full of longing and bittersweet humor, these poems are lyrical, narrative, poignant, and always powerful…Vera has given us a true […]
Date: June 13, 2013
Boom Journal outlines the merits of Lam's collection of short stories: "His own voice is a true gift to California and the world . Lams fiction weaves the pitch-perfect perceptiveness of […]
Date: May 31, 2013
Ralph Pennel from Rain Taxi Review of Books praises Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone.- "Gone & Gone both transports and transforms. It forces us to take pause from our every […]