David Mason, THE SOUND poet, featured in The Wall Street Journal!
Date: May 17, 2021
As recently as 1980, when I was living in a small village in Greece, I heard the oral tradition at work. A great keening of women erupted in the house […]
News & Reviews
News:
Khalisa Rae’s poems featured on Off Menu Press, Rust + Moth, and Iamb Poet
Date: May 12, 2021
Find her poetry at the links below! Off Menu Press, Rust + Moth, Iamb Poet
The Hellebore interviewed GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT author Khalisa Rae!
Date: May 12, 2021
Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat, the stunning debut poetry collection by Khalisa Rae, captures the trauma and triumph of Black queer identities. We spoke to Khalisa Rae about her […]
Poetry by Khalisa Rae featured in The Florida Review and Willawaw Journal!
Date: May 12, 2021
Check it out! The Florida Review, Willawaw Journal
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 […]
Reviews:
The Florida Review Online reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 16, 2024
“Didi Jackson’s second collection of poems, My Infinity, is a quiet, pensive reckoning with life and death by a speaker uniquely suited to discuss such enigmatic subjects.”
Poetry Foundation reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 10, 2024
In Didi Jackson’s My Infinity, the “Northern sky stands so straight, / it uses the largest pines for crutches;” “The moon’s marias emerge / like age spots, monochromatic and ashy;” and […]
Kirkus reviews Christian Teresi’s WHAT MONSTERS YOU MAKE OF THEM
Date: September 9, 2024
“A cogent, skeptical collection that examines those whose stories are erased or preserved.”
Shelf Awareness reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: September 3, 2024
Eunice Hong’s exquisite debut Memento Mori won the 2021 Red Hen Press Fiction Award, chosen by judge Aimee Liu. Hong’s simple, well-worn opening line, “Once upon a time,” belies an intricate narrative […]
Library Journal reviews Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 28, 2024
“VERDICT For enthusiasts of Percival’s writing”
Chicago Review of Books reviews Eunice Hong’s MEMENTO MORI
Date: August 26, 2024
“Our narrator’s story is painful and heart-breaking, a story of all we wish we could forget, a story of continuing to live even when you feel you don’t deserve it.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY features Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY in THE MUST LIST!
Date: August 26, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Coleman, who wrote “Your favorite writer’s writer, Percival Everett, is now everyone’s fave thanks to American Fiction, the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of his book Erasure. His latest, a lyrical book of […]
PASADENA STAR-NEWS praises Percival Everett’s SONNETS FOR A MISSING KEY
Date: August 21, 2024
Huge thanks to Larry Wilson for this wonderful coverage!
Kirkus reviews Esinam Bediako’s BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: August 21, 2024
“Smartly covers a few weeks of upheaval that push its heroine closer to adulthood.”
Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY in the Second Acts column for the Adroit Journal!
Date: August 12, 2024
Poetry is hard to define even for those devoted to reading, writing, and studying it. “It is difficult,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “to get the news from poems,” but […]