Lara Ehrlich’s Alumni Profile (Q&A) w/ The University of Chicago!
Date: November 30, 2020
What kind of work have you done since MAPH? I see you work as marketing director for an arts festival, do you feel that your time at MAPH prepared you […]
News & Reviews
News:
Vote for ANIMAL WIFE to Win Electric Lit’s ‘Best Book Cover of 2020’!
Date: November 30, 2020
Vote for your favorites on Electric Literature’s Twitter and Instagram stories every day this week: round 1 (a whopping 16 matchups) today, round 2 Tuesday, quarterfinals Wednesday, semifinals Thursday, and the final face-off on […]
SmokeLong Quarterly hosted an interview with Lara Ehrlich!
Date: November 30, 2020
Yes! I often Frankenstein stories, in part due to my inefficient drafting method. I tend to write and write and write and follow tangents without worrying too much about characters […]
HIGH SKIES author Tracy Daugherty at the Portland Book Festival!
Date: November 23, 2020
Corvallis-based writer Tracy Daugherty shares a selection from his new novella, High Skies, in this reading filmed at the Portland Art Museum. Catch this reading on Literary Arts’ Instagram Stories on November 19th, or stream it […]
Lit Hub has added Lara Ehrlich’s Animal Wife to a list of most notable short story collections this year!
Date: November 23, 2020
“My mother said girls have to take care of themselves. That’s how we avoid turning into sea foam and falling down wells. That’s how we escape hunters and kings who […]
Chelsea Catherine featured in a local website for her opinion on Queer Lit!
Date: November 19, 2020
There’s nothing quite like witness the emergence of cicadas from their 17-year slumber. Of course it’s rather the noise you won’t soon forget. My senior year of high school cicadas […]
Deborah A. Lott featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up”
Date: November 19, 2020
Deborah A. Lott, author of DON’T GO CRAZY WITHOUT ME was featured in Southern California News Group’s “Lit Up: your guide to books, writers and the literary life of SoCal.” […]
Interview Q&A with Kristen Millares Young in VOL. 1 Brooklyn
Date: November 18, 2020
You evoke the landscape of Neah Bay incredibly well here; I’ve never been, but I felt a tactile sense of the place. How did you first become familiar with it? […]
Mary Odden (Mostly Water) is featured in Alaska Magazine this month!
Date: November 18, 2020
Boreal Books / Red Hen author, Mary Odden (Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, June 2020) is featured in the November 2020 issue of Alaska Magazine. Her article, “Once More […]
Kristen Millares Young article in The Rumpus!
Date: November 16, 2020
As editor of SEISMIC:Seattle, City of Literature, I asked artists and storytellers to reflect on what it means for Seattle to be a City of Literature. While celebrating Seattle’s inclusion in […]
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews features Laila Halaby’s THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS!
Date: June 5, 2023
The illegitimate daughter of a white mother and a Jordanian father, Halaby, author of two novels and two collections of poetry, felt that she was a “fiction…squished between other people’s […]
Ann Poore reviews Katharine Coles’ GHOST APPLES for 15 Bytes!
Date: June 1, 2023
Ghost Apples, the ninth collection of poems by Katharine Coles – who might be a witch (IMHO) given the ready way she connects with animals (including her parrot Henri, pronounced […]
VerseCurious reviews Phuong T. Vuong’s A PLUCKED ZITHER!
Date: June 1, 2023
I review Phuong T. Vuong’s A Plucked Zither, from Red Hen Press (June 6, 2023). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/versecurious/donations
Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 23, 2023
Francesca Bell (Bright Stain) writes poems that chime like the bell of her own name: bright but resonant, sharp but still familiar, lush and likely to echo long after its […]
Lake County Examiner features Kim Dower’s collection, SLICE OF MOON!
Date: May 23, 2023
Did you read “Slice of Moon,” our poetry book for May? If you didn’t, I don’t blame you; many people shy away from poetry, and I am one of them. […]
Recovering Words features Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: May 16, 2023
Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful.I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it,but I don’t care. For him or beauty. I am […]
WHAT SMALL SOUND by Francesca Bell Reviewed in Caesura Literary!
Date: May 15, 2023
This collection immediately thrusts us into scenes of relative comfort and privilege that are all too often interrupted by the violent horrors plaguing this current time. Mind you, the terms […]
Brenda Cárdenas’ TRACE featured in ‘La Treintena 2023: 30 (Something) Books of Latinx Poetry’!
Date: May 11, 2023
Over the past year, Latina/o/x poets spanning vast aesthetics, experiences, and geographies have dazzled me with collections that reveal the complexity and beauty of our communities in all their irreducible […]
REFUGEE by Pamela Uschuk reviewed in Compulsive Reader!
Date: May 8, 2023
How can we take refuge amid the pains of this world? In this collection, Pamela Uschuk, winner of an American Book Award in 2010, faces the realities of recent social […]
THE SKIN OF MEANING by Keith Flynn Reviewed in North of Oxford!
Date: May 1, 2023
The Skin of Meaning by Keith Flynn is an interesting mixture of contemporary reactions to issues that affect us in the twenty-first century. Keith presents one hundred and eighty-one pages of poetry divided […]