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:
Vivian Wagner reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND for Pedestal Magazine!
Date: September 20, 2023
What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and […]
Juliana Lamy’s debut short-story collection YOU WERE WATCHING FROM THE SAND featured in Daily Kos!
Date: September 20, 2023
The Bookgirl Community in the Daily Kos highlights key takeaways from Juliana Lamy’s first short-story collection, You Were Watching from the Sand, published by Red Hen Press this September! Read […]
Kirkus Reviews calls Lisa C. Krueger’s FLORIOGRAPHY CHILD “a poignant and bittersweet poetry collection about a mother’s devotion.”
Date: September 20, 2023
Krueger offers a memoir about caring for a sick child in poetry form. Krueger explores connections between flora, motherhood, and illness in this poetry collection. The title refers to the way […]
The New York Journal of Books calls Laila Halaby’s memoir, THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS, “deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound.”
Date: September 13, 2023
Acclaimed novelist and poet Laila Halaby’s memoir, The Weight of Ghosts, documents her struggle to bear up after the devastating loss after her first-born son, Raad, 21, was killed on the […]
Soapberry Review features Pete Hsu’s IF I WERE THE OCEAN, I’D CARRY YOU HOME!
Date: September 6, 2023
What does it mean to heal your inner child? To overcome past trauma? To find the puzzle piece that had been lost years ago, or in another life? In a […]
The Jewish Book Council reviews Kim Dower’s I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM
Date: September 6, 2023
Many American Jews are unaffiliated with Judaism. Some do not observe Jewish rituals in any regular way; others might not worship at all. And yet Jewishness still pervades their lives: […]
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES by Good River Review
Date: September 5, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by University of Utah distinguished professor Katharine Coles, offers not only nature-based poems that stir and satiate hunger, but also serrated verse that […]
The Markaz Review calls Laila Halaby’s memoir THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS “fearlessly authentic,” “vulnerable,” and “haunting.”
Date: September 5, 2023
“My story has never been mine to tell,” says novelist, poet, and creative writing teacher Laila Halaby in her memoir, The Weight of Ghosts. “It is squished between other people’s tall […]
Madeleine Nakamura receives a five star review of “Cursebreakers” from AuthorLink.com
Date: August 29, 2023
Author Madeleine Nakamura’s science fiction thriller “Cursebreakers,” embarks on a “mind bending” battle between magicians, witches, medical professionals and the military in the year 3016. All of the drama in this […]
Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: August 17, 2023
A Plucked Zither is Phuong T. Vuong’s sophomore poetry collection. Vuong’s poems draw upon her experience as a 1.5 generation Vietnamese American raised in Oakland, California, and echo the familiar themes […]