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:
Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]
Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy
Date: June 3, 2020
Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]
LARB: Wanting to Turn Back Time: On Aimee Liu’s “Glorious Boy”
Date: June 3, 2020
ON THE FRONT COVER of Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy there is a palm-lined cove under a twilight sky. Unspoiled by modernity, this looks like island escapism, with no indication this is a […]
Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]
Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review
Date: June 3, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Times Standard: Books and More: New novel set during Vietnam War
Date: June 3, 2020
A newly released novel, “Her Sister’s Tattoo” by Ellen Meeropol, was brought to my attention and it struck a soft spot I thought was long buried. Like so many of you, as […]
Adroit Journal: Father as God and Monster: A Review of Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah A. Lott
Date: June 3, 2020
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Consider the cover image for Deborah A. Lott’s memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me (Red Hen Press): a chubby adult male dressed in blue velvet […]
Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole
Date: June 3, 2020
Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]
Empty Mirror: Hope Amidst Uncertainty: Subduction by Kristen Millares Young, reviewed by Jessica Gigot
Date: June 3, 2020
What happens when the world as you know it changes course? When your seemingly rock-solid life suddenly becomes thin and porous? Such is the case for Claudia, a Latinx anthropologist based […]
Library Journal reviews Subduction
Date: June 3, 2020
VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]