Pigs on the TODAY show
Date: June 30, 2020
For June, the Read With Jenna book club dove into Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, “A Burning.” The book tackles themes of class, fate and corruption in contemporary India through the stories of […]
News & Reviews
News:
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, […]
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.
Reviews:
Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Review: Weather Woman is a fantasy about control and illusion
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Asterix Journal reviews Gabriel Jesiolowski’s ‘As Burning Leaves’
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
10 Great Resons To Read Fiction In October 2018
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Peggy Shumaker’s CAIRN reviewed in INTO THE VOID
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Dean Kostos: Poet of Two Worlds
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph?s ?Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]
Bigfoots In Paradise
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]