GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT by Khalisa Rae featured on Write or Die Tribe!
Date: March 29, 2021
Books We Can’t Wait To Read In April 2021 Read the list here!
News & Reviews
News:
PRAISING THE PARADOX poet Tina Schumann featured on Spokane Public Radio!
Date: March 25, 2021
Yvonne Higgins Leach Reads “For I Have Sinned” by Tina Schumann Yvonne Higgins Leach is the author of Another Autumn (Cherry Grove Collections, 2014). Her poems have been published in The South Carolina […]
World Wide Work bulletin shares Martha Cooley’s upcoming BUY ME LOVE & Amy Shearn’s UNSEEN CITY
Date: March 16, 2021
Thank you for the shout-outs Matt Witt! You can check out his full blog where he presents his photography and film/books/music you may have missed!
Four Red Hen books are finalists for the 2020 Foreword Indies Awards!
Date: March 15, 2021
Featuring SUBDUCTION by Kristen Millares Young, ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, BEYOND REPAIR by Sebastian Matthews, and THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman Read the list of finalists here!
Aimee Liu featured in the Los Angeles Times!
Date: March 10, 2021
The second dose was supposed to be my reunion pass. Thanks to COVID-19, I couldn’t get back to Connecticut for my mother’s 100th birthday at Christmastime, but once we were […]
UMF features virtual reading by THE PLAYWRIGHT’S HOUSE author, Dariel Suarez, on March 18th!
Date: March 8, 2021
The University of Maine at Farmington’s celebrated Visiting Writers Series presents fiction writer Dariel Suarez as the popular program’s fifth reader of the season. Suarez will read from his work […]
Calling all South Pasadenans: Participate in a crowdsourced poem for National Poetry Month, written by Ron Koertge!
Date: March 4, 2021
In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, the South Pasadena Public Library invites residents of all ages to contribute to a crowdsourced poem to be written by South Pasadena’s Poet Laureate Ron Koertge. […]
WE NEED TO TALK author, Jen Risher, to Zoom with Pequot Library
Date: March 4, 2021
March 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Jennifer Risher is the author of We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, […]
TOUCHING CREATURES, TOUCHING SPIRIT author Judy Grahn featured on Consortium of Seven!
Date: March 3, 2021
You know how it is when you hear someone absolutely brilliant and they articulate ideas that change your thinking in huge ways and you, in turn, can articulate extraordinarily little […]
Tess Taylor, “how verse can provide solace,” on PBS New Hour!
Date: March 3, 2021
For many, it’s a time of uncertainty and isolation. But in poet Tess Taylor’s humble opinion, turning to verse can provide solace. Her recent book of poems is “Rift Zone,” […]
Reviews:
Barrelhouse Reviews Sings Praises
Date: September 8, 2016
Barrelhouse says Rozema's essays are "humble, honest, insightful, and, like the best essays on any topic, but especially ones tinged with spirituality, they aren’t too sure about any one thing. […]
After the Dam review from Kirkus
Date: June 30, 2016
"Taut, beautifully written, and suspenseful, this resonant, feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber." Kirkus details the book's plot points, setting, and themes
Kirkus gives The Currawongs a Mighty review
Date: June 30, 2016
“Delightful. . . . A nimble and very funny collection of stories from a writer who clearly values the human condition in all its myriad forms.” Check out the observant […]
Isthmus sits down with Mark Rozema to talk about Road Trip
Date: June 23, 2016
Isthmus reviews Mark Rozema's Road Trip and applauds his ability to turn the world around us into a living, breathing setting which allows us to simply exist. "I found myself […]
Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop gets reviewed Poetry Magazine
Date: March 18, 2016
Recommended and briefly reviewed by Eduardo C. Corral in Poetry Magazine. The poems in Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop are funny, wicked, and poignant. These three qualities are visible […]
As It Ought to Be” raves about “River Electric With Light”!”
Date: March 16, 2016
The editor describes the book as "enigmatic, transversive, transformative," and so beautifully writes that there is "water–and the life water ensures–running through this book." Thanks for the wonderful words of […]
Dean Kostos: This is Not a Skyscraper
Date: February 16, 2016
"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island." The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well […]
Fogged Clarity Reviews Dean Kostos’s Latest Collection of Poetry
Date: February 9, 2016
The Literary journal Fogged Clarity has beautifully reviewed Dean Kostos's latest collection of poetry This Is Not a Skyscaper. "Like New York itself, with its carefully plotted grid of streets […]
The Yellow Door” Celebrated by Nichi Bei!”
Date: January 20, 2016
"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” […]
On Birds of Paradise Lost” by Andrew Lam”
Date: January 12, 2016
"Just as Lam connects with and penetrates each persona, so too each persona achieves a moment that bridges or leaps the gap between our two cultures, forever wedded by the […]