“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: October 3, 2011
In August 2011 The Midwest Book Review's Wisconsin Bookwatch wrote about John Barr's book of poems. "The Hundred Fathom Curve is John Barr's exploration of Americana from the perspectives of […]
Date: October 3, 2011
Poet Sasha West examines the language of Amy Randolph in Randolph's book Cold Angel of Mercy. "Randolph's crisp, searing voice is evident in her facility with image." —Sasha West
Date: October 3, 2011
In the sixty-fourth volume of The Hudson Review, Peter Makuck praises William Trowbridge's book, Ship of Fool. "William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool had me laughing out loud . . . […]
Date: September 30, 2011
“My favorite poems here include the title poem about a talisman stone that emblemizes the omnipresence of past time, ‘Something Old,’ ‘Someone’s Father,’ the bitterly ironic ‘Fish to Fry,’ ‘Trucks […]
Date: August 2, 2011
At first glance Jim Tilleys In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]
Date: August 2, 2011
"Driven and powerful writing in play format, Among the Goddesses is an excellent read and a first pick for literary fiction and poetry collections." The full review can be seen
Date: August 1, 2011
Among the Goddesses is a bold experiment. Magical, mystical, musical, it charts a woman's journey that reverses the journey of Odysseus. What is it to be aided by goddesses, if […]
Date: August 1, 2011
In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]
Date: July 31, 2011
Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]
Date: July 31, 2011
In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]