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 Seattle Times: Storytelling in Neah Bay forms the fault line in brilliant debut ‘Subduction’ from Seattle’s Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
In the gray autumn of Seattle, Claudia, an anthropology professor, is on edge. Her marriage is over after she found out her husband and sister were having an affair. She’s […]
The Washington Post: In ‘Subduction,’ an anthropologist observing a remote fishing village becomes part of the story
Date: June 2, 2020
What was it the anthropologist said? Claudia wonders as she types up her notes. “Oh, yes. ‘An observer is under the bed. A participant observer is in it.’ She doubted […]
The Book Slut Reviews Body of Render: Poems by Felicia Zamora
Date: May 28, 2020
This moving collection of poetry by Felicia Zamora covers a range of topics from love, politics, identity, addiction, and the natural world. On one level, Body of Render explores a […]
The Paris Review: Staff Picks Subduction
Date: May 21, 2020
Kristen Millares Young’s debut novel Subduction takes as its subject a subtle clash of culture in the Pacific Northwest. The novel’s protagonist, Claudia, is an anthropologist fleeing the remains of her marriage […]
Midwest Book Review recommends Lifesaving for Beginners
Date: March 16, 2020
TBT! In a mid-April review, Midwest Book Review recommended Anne Edelstein’s memoir Lifesaving for Beginners. The recommendation reads, “It is no surprise that Lifesaving for Beginners is an deftly crafted, engagingly presented, intensely […]
Praise for What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
Date: March 16, 2020
Camille Dungy shares with us in this manuscript her sharp, clear and honest ear and her unswerving commitment to the voice of life. She is a brave poet writing true […]
New Letters admires Gary Dop’s work for Father
Date: March 16, 2020
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A conversation between Cynthia Hogue and Sari Broner on ‘The Incognito Body'”
Date: March 16, 2020
Sari Broner’s interview with Cynthia Hogue about The Incognito Body, which was then in-process, was published in the “work/book” section of the avant-garde literary journal How2 1:5 (March 2001).
The Mindful Word reviews CIRCADIAN
Date: March 16, 2020
Many thanks to The Mindful Word for this lovely review of Chelsey Clammer’s CIRCADIAN, noting “Clammer is swift with language, intelligent and funny. She’s lyrical, poetic and sometimes mesmerizing in her prose. […]
Fred Gardaphe, rave, FRA NOI
Date: March 16, 2020
Fred Gardaphe, in the October, 2008, FRA NOI (48/10), raves about Earthquake I.D.: “A well focused plot tightly wound… Enough mystery to keep the pages turning while telling a contemporary story that can […]