IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 30, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
News & Reviews
News:
TriCornerNews: “My Heart Cannot Accept It All” poem by Susan Kinsolving
Date: June 30, 2020
Forgive yourself for thinking smallfor cooking soups, ignoring blight.The mind cannot contain it all
Giving Compass: #HalfMyDAF: A Challenge To Donors To Unlock Capital For A Reimagined World
Date: June 30, 2020
Launched in early May, #HalfMyDAF is the brainchild of philanthropists David and Jennifer Risher. With more than $120 billion sitting in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) at a time when nonprofits are facing additional obstacles to […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Donor-advised funds are stacking up cash. A former Amazon executive wants it given away faster
Date: June 30, 2020
David Risher and his wife, Jennifer, are urging other tech philanthropists to put money sitting in charitable vehicles to work at nonprofits that need it. And they’re putting $1 million […]
Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth
Date: June 30, 2020
When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]
GMR: Francisco Aragón on The Social Distance Reading Series
Date: June 30, 2020
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He’s the author of After Rubén, Glow of Our Sweat and Puerta del Sol, as well as editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He directs Letras […]
Literary North interviews Didi Jackson
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson is a terrific poet. She writes accessible poems that are packed with startling imagery, art, precise language, and delicate emotions. She manages to make the shocking and heart-breaking […]
Seven Days: Poet Didi Jackson on Grief, Recovery and New Book ‘Moon Jar’
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson‘s book of poetry, Moon Jar, was released on April 21 — the day before her 50th birthday and during a global pandemic. The book contains several years’ worth of […]
Sound and Valley News: Coffee Break with Mary Odden
Date: June 30, 2020
Alaskan author Mary Odden discusses her new book, Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, an essay compilation that form a memoir of life in the 49th state.
Author2Author with Aimee Liu
Date: June 30, 2020
Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her […]
Reviews:
Bookmonger: The negative capability of poets
Date: June 25, 2024
”Negative capability” was initially described by 18th-century English poet John Keats as a poet’s way of living with uncertainty, or with openness to competing moods. In two recently published volumes, […]
Tinderbox Poetry’s Sarah Casey Reviews BLUE ATLAS by Susan Rich
Date: June 25, 2024
In her latest book, Blue Atlas, newly released from Red Hen Press, award-winning Washington poet Susan Rich confronts and chronicles her world before, during and after an abortion she underwent as […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Jennifer Brice’s ANOTHER NORTH
Date: June 24, 2024
It used to be said that “essays don’t sell, nobody wants to read them.” That was never really true, and, in the hands of a gifted writer like Jennifer Brice, […]
Jen Ryland reviews D.C. Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED
Date: June 10, 2024
“DC Frost does an artful job of weaving in current campus social issues, juggling multiple suspects, and giving us a peek into the tense relationship between the two men who […]
Los Angeles Daily News Names DC Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED on their summer book list
Date: June 6, 2024
LA Daily News adds A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost to their list of 10 summer books from LA authors!
Coco Picard’s novel THE HEALING CIRCLE reviewed by Anna Searle Jones for Portable Gray Review
Date: June 4, 2024
A problem with circles is that they can be traps. Acupuncture, yoga, LSD, past-life regressions, pole dancing, psychic surgery, “special tea”: these are just some of the therapies sampled by […]
E.P. Tuazon’s A PROFESSIONAL LOLA receives a Starred Review from Shelf Awareness!
Date: May 29, 2024
“E.P. Tuazon’s collection of short stories A Professional Lola is a poignant, sly examination of their diasporic Filipino American community, told through interactions with extended family, intimate friends, adoptive/adaptive cultural clashes, and, […]
DC Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED Reviewed by Library Journal
Date: May 23, 2024
Library Journal has a new, exciting review on novel A PUNISHING BREED by DC Frost. Subscribe to Library Journal to read the full review!
Sheila Regan reviews Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE for MinnPost!
Date: May 22, 2024
In Cheri Johnson’s “Annika Rose,” the titular character is just 17-years-old when the novel begins. Annika lives in a trailer with her father where they’ve lived since her mother died […]
Foreword reviews ANOTHER NORTH by Jennifer Brice
Date: May 22, 2024
“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]