Poetry by Khalisa Rae featured in The Florida Review and Willawaw Journal!
Date: May 12, 2021
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News & Reviews
News:
Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT featured in Essence & Reader’s Digest!
Date: May 11, 2021
Awesome news for Khalisa Rae! Check out her features in both the links below!
THE SOUND poet, David Mason, appears on the Australian Book Review podcast!
Date: May 10, 2021
African American Poetry is an ambitious and wide-ranging collection of Black poetry. Edited by Kevin Young, a fellow poet and poetry editor of The New Yorker, the collection spans contemporary writers such […]
An article by Cai Emmons, author of SINKING ISLANDS, is featured in the LA Times!
Date: May 10, 2021
I first notice something off about my voice on a balmy December evening at a reading in Sausalito in 2019 with several other writers. I have always enjoyed the theatrical […]
SINGER COME FROM AFAR poet, Kim Stafford, featured on NY Zen Center!
Date: May 6, 2021
Chodo Robert Campbell bases his recent Sunday morning dharma talk on the poem, “Curse of the Charmed Life” by Kim Stafford, using it to highlight moments of greed and poverty […]
B O D Y features two poems translated by BRIGHT STAIN poet, Francesca Bell!
Date: May 6, 2021
MAX SESSNER’s poems appear widely in German-language magazines, and he is the author of eight books of poetry including, most recently, Das Wasser von Gestern (The Water of Yesterday) published by edition […]
Anchorage Press features story on Mia Heavener’s UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF
Date: May 5, 2021
Seagulls swoop and dive, crying in the salty air. The waves of Nushagak Bay crash on sandbars and rocky shores. Machines rattle the warehouses on the cannery side of the […]
Kim Dower wrote an article about Larry Flynt, published the LA Times!
Date: May 5, 2021
I was Larry Flynt’s book publicist and personal publicist for 15 years — from 1996, three months before the movie “The People vs. Larry Flynt” was released, until 2011. I watched him […]
Rain Taxi interviews Melanie Conroy-Goldman on THE LIKELY WORLD!
Date: May 4, 2021
What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is a question I found myself asking while reading Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s debut novel, The Likely World (Red Hen Press, $18.95), […]
Khalisa Rae’s “Wind Watching” featured on The Writer’s Almanac
Date: May 3, 2021
“What if Dorothy wasn’t afraid of the wind?What if she welcomed the cyclone?” Click here to listen to the rest of “Wind Watching.”
Reviews:
Glowing Review of THE HEALING CIRCLE by Coco Picard from Midwest Review
Date: September 12, 2022
A unique and inherently engaging novel about life, death, and dying, “The Healing Circle” showcases author Coco Picard’s natural flair for crafting a novel of serious substance with a flair […]
Shelf Awareness Reviews Marybeth Holleman’s TENDER GRAVITY
Date: September 8, 2022
Although Marybeth Holleman’s five books are all deeply rooted in Alaska’s landscape and wildlife, Tender Gravity is her first expression of that connection through poetry. The title phrase comes from the first […]
North of Oxford Reviews Joshua Rivkin’s SUITOR!
Date: September 8, 2022
By Charles Rammelkamp “we are what happens by accident,” Joshua Rivkin writes in the first “Envoi” of this lyrical, emotionally probing collection, and goes on: Suitor, from the Latin secutor, to […]
North of Oxford Reviews TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT by Judy Grahn
Date: September 8, 2022
Judy Grahn’s Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a thought-provoking study of relationships between human and nonhuman creatures and spirits. It collects ten nonfiction essays, divided into three parts, with a vivid record […]
REFUGEE by Pamela Uschuk reviewed in Rain Taxi
Date: August 22, 2022
“’So you think that you can live remote / from city streets paved with bullet casings, / mass shootings in churches, refugee mothers in cages,’ Pamela Uschuk questions in ‘A […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Emily Wall’s BREAKING INTO AIR and Marybeth Holleman’s TENDER GRAVITY!
Date: August 21, 2022
Boreal Books, founded and edited by Peggy Shumaker, a former Alaska writer laureate, has since 2008 been publishing exemplary poetry and prose by Alaskans. This summer it’s brought forth two […]
Booktrib reviews MONKEY BUSINESS by Carleton Eastlake
Date: August 9, 2022
“Inside their heads, humans are caught in a civil war between the little gleam of intelligence they want to believe is them and the animal which that spark of intelligence evolved to […]
Ruyan Meng’s ONLY THE CAT KNOWS reviewed in Asian Review of Books
Date: August 8, 2022
“Set in rural China during the 1970s, Ruyan Meng’s debut novel Only the Cat Knows is told from the point of view of a young factory worker married to a woman who […]
ONLY THE CAT KNOWS by Ruyan Meng reviewed in Soapberry Review!
Date: August 4, 2022
“A bicycle on which to commute to work. A sewing machine with which to sew new clothes. Eggs, milk, and meat to cure his children of malnutrition. These are a […]
New Criterion reviews THE DISCARDED LIFE by Adam Kirsch!
Date: August 3, 2022
The Discarded Life: Poems, by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen): “Do details matter?” asks the poet Adam Kirsch in his new collection The Discarded Life—and even if they don’t, the perspicuity […]