Date: May 5, 2021
I was Larry Flynt’s book publicist and personal publicist for 15 years — from 1996, three months before the movie “The People vs. Larry Flynt” was released, until 2011. I watched him […]
Date: May 4, 2021
What does it mean to be Jewish in the modern world? This is a question I found myself asking while reading Melanie Conroy-Goldman’s debut novel, The Likely World (Red Hen Press, $18.95), […]
Date: May 3, 2021
“What if Dorothy wasn’t afraid of the wind?What if she welcomed the cyclone?” Click here to listen to the rest of “Wind Watching.”
Date: April 27, 2021
Listen or read the full transcript of the podcast “How Poetry Has Helped To Guide People During The Pandemic ” here! https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991117892/how-poetry-has-helped-to-guide-people-during-the-pandemic
Date: April 27, 2021
2021 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color Read the list here!
Date: April 26, 2021
Early twentieth-century maverick creator, Guillaume Apollinaire, famously declared, “l’esprit nouveau et les poetes.” With extraordinary collaborations between visual crafters and wordsmiths—Picasso and Max Jacob (Saint Matorel [1911]), Ginsburg and Francesco Clemente […]
Date: April 22, 2021
Khalisa Rae is one of those electrifying speakers you hear about. There’s just something riveting about her work on and off the page. Read it here!
Date: April 22, 2021
To celebrate National Poetry Month, South Pasadena residents of all ages contributed to a crowdsourced community poem, which City of South Pasadena Poet Laureate Ron Koertge wove together into one […]
Date: April 21, 2021
The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is a living, breathing thing: a […]
Date: April 21, 2021
The Tree Agreement For National Poetry Month listen to Osage poet Elise Paschen read one her incredible poems. Watch the interview here!
Date: August 13, 2014
Writing for The Stranger, Paul Constant praised Elissa Washuta's use of "powerful prose" in her new book My Body Is a Book of Rules. "Body is a storm of fingernails […]
Date: August 8, 2014
In a recent review of Pete Fromm's new novel, If Not For This, Linnie Greene, writing for Shelf Awareness, praised the novel's emotional impact. "This is a tough read, but […]
Date: July 23, 2014
Sean Arthur Joyce, on the blog Chameleonfire1, has very high praise for Gary Geddes' What Does A House Want?. “Geddes writes with a sureness of hand that is remarkable, never […]
Date: July 16, 2014
In a recent review on Monkeybicycle, Stefanie Wortman praised Douglas Kearney's unusual and exciting use of poetic form. "Kearney’s poems play with forms both visual and generic, drawing on the […]
Date: June 30, 2014
In a recent review of Gay Geddes' newest collection of poetry, M.A.C. Farrant, writing for The Vancouver Sun, lauds the poems' beauty and strength. Farrant writes, "Likewise, the poems in […]
Date: June 30, 2014
John Van Kirk's novel, Song for Chance— a 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards finalist— was recently featured in the "Books for Readers" newsletter at Meredith Sue Willis.com. Of […]
Date: June 16, 2014
Over the weekend, Jessica Piazza received a great review from The Rumpus. Melissa Leigh Gore writes, “Each poem thrums with a sense of purpose, contributes to a complex web of […]
Date: June 6, 2014
Mike Sonksen, writing for KCET, heaps high praise upon Douglas Kearney and his newest book, Patter. “Wielding an undeniable command of the poetic line, Kearney's poems mix humor, irreverence, adventure, […]
Date: June 6, 2014
Jason Barry of the Coal Hill Review applauds David Mason's great success in his poetry collection, Sea Salt, Poems of a Decade: 2004-2014 "Sea Salt is a heartfelt and touching […]
Date: May 14, 2014
Nicelle Davis' latest poetry collection, Becoming Judas, was reviewed by Emily May Anderson of NewPages, who raved about the spirit and form of the poems. Anderson writes, "The book also […]
