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:
Cynthia Hogue’s The Incognito Body as Ecopoethics””
Date: May 5, 2010
Stephen H. Sohn of Stanford reviews Chandra Prasad’s Death of a Circus
Date: May 4, 2010
Stephen H. Sohn of Stanford
Iowa City Press Citizen reviews Suck on the Marrow
Date: May 4, 2010
Vershawn Ashanti Young reviews Camille Dungy's
Prarie Schooner Winter 2009 Review
Date: March 10, 2010
Steve Huff's Book, More Daring EscapesReviewed in Prarie SchoonerWinter 2009 Editiion Steven Huff. More Daring Escapes. Red Hen Press.Dan Bellm. Practice. Sixteen Rivers Press.Reviewed by Marilyn Krysl‘‘False words are not […]
A Tree Putting Forth Green Leaves
Date: February 8, 2010
Alicia Ostriker reviews Judy Grahn's Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling anthology. The review appears in the September/October edition of the Women's Review, and you can read the […]
Praise for Suck on the Marrow
Date: February 6, 2010
Advance Praise for Suck on the Marrow: “Camille Dungy’s important new collection, Suck on the Marrow, explores the lives of African Americans in the 19th century, illuminating parts of slave […]
Katie Spielberger’s Review of Double Moon
Date: January 12, 2010
Spielberger's review begins: "Double Moon: Constructions & Conversations" is one of the best books I've come across recently, and that it can be placed on the "Alaskan Shelf" makes it […]
Katie Spielberger Reviews Leaving Resurrection
Date: January 12, 2010
Katie Spielberger begins her review:I first learned about Eva Saulitis last November during the Maritime Grind at Sitka WhaleFest, when I heard this killer whale biologist read from a from […]
Dale Van Every Reviews Silverstein and Me
Date: January 12, 2010
Although it saw extended periods of minimal contact, one of the friendships that lasted a lifetime for Silverstein was with childhood pal and fellow cartoonist Marv Gold. Gold’s recent memoir, […]
Deborah Bogen Reviews Cartographies
Date: January 12, 2010
Cartographies: Uncollected Poems: 1980-2005, by Maurya Simon (Red Hen Press, 2008)The cover of Cartographies is a photograph of a bronze by New Mexican sculptor, Katherine Wells. It’s a female torso […]