Gridlock: A Precursor to Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels: Kinship of Clover (Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read, and literary fiction finalist for the Best Book Award), On Hurricane Island (semifinalist for the Massachusetts […]
Date: July 13, 2020
“For some time we’ve been waiting for a poet to appear who could adequately confront the vast and deliriously complex matter of the USA—its people, its art, its material and […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His upcoming memoir Beyond Repair: Living in a […]
Date: July 13, 2020
Lara Ehrlich had a busy spring as director of marketing for June’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn. The 250-event schedule had to be completely reimagined as a scaled-down, […]
Date: July 8, 2020
I met Kristen Millares Young at AWP’s annual writing conference earlier this year. I sidled up, thrust my advance copy of Subduction in front of her to sign, and she said, “It’s […]
Date: July 8, 2020
In this episode of Chewing The Gristle, Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with the imaginative Keith Flynn— poet, founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. Watch […]
Date: July 1, 2020
Thank you to the following blogs for featuring Donna Heman’s Tea by the Sea! The Livre Café Jessica Belmont Fiction Matters Everyday I Write the Book Never Without A Book […]
Date: July 1, 2020
Tea by the Sea, Donna Heman’s second novel, will be published by Red Hen Press in June 2020. The winner of the 2015 JaWS JAMCOPY Lignum Vitae Award for unpublished manuscripts Heman’s […]
Date: July 1, 2020
There’s something about Jamaican patois that grates and soothes at the same time. It is the language of home. It is the language of the women who lived in my […]
Date: September 12, 2013
In the most recent issue of Glint Literary Journal Brenda Mann Hammack lauds Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "Davis’ book does not wallow in masochism or confessionalism. Instead, Becoming Judas comes […]
Date: September 6, 2013
The Baton Rouge Advocate's Andrew Burstein comments on the southern ancestry in the poems of Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Taylor intuits history through her engagement with pieces and particles […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Theresé Samson Wenham from NewPages commends Ernest Hilbert on his "honesty of character" and the "resonance of his language" in the poems of All of You on the Good Earth.- […]
Date: September 6, 2013
Julia Ann Charpentier from ForeWord Reviews is impressed with John Van Kirk's Song for Chance.- "Van Kirk depicts the world of an aging rock star by alternating between soft reminiscence […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Carmela Ciuraru from the San Francisco Chronicle calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "stunning debut collection."- "The most fascinating biographical fact about Taylor is not that she can trace […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Marguerite Nguyen applauds the way Andrew Lam "undertakes the tricky task of interweaving a journalistic eye for detail with imagined dialogues and psychic journeys" in her review of Birds of […]
Date: August 30, 2013
Anne Yale from Voice in the Wilderness admits that she "could not put down" Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas.- "A fascinating foray into iconographic studies, Becoming Judas examines, interprets, questions, challenges, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Camille Guillot from Oxford American praises the "curated mood of a small museum" present in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.- "Every so often there is a book of poetry that […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Anna Challet from Tikkun discusses the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "…each story is a world unto itself. Lam’s characters are haunted by what they have lost, […]
Date: August 21, 2013
Sandy Longhorn from Atticus Review praises the language and layers of meaning found in the poems of Carolyn Guinzio's Spoke & Dark.– "Spoke & Dark requires much of the reader, […]