Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Hippocampus with Lara Lillibridge
Date: November 10, 2020
I loved In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays. I read The Tribal Knot during my MFA, so it was a treat to read another book […]
News & Reviews
News:
Rebecca McClanahan Interview at Brevity Magazine with Nancy Geyer
Date: November 10, 2020
In 1998, with a sublet lined up but without jobs, Rebecca McClanahan and her husband left North Carolina and moved to New York City. They were well into middle age. […]
Siel Ju to read for ZYZZYVA Magazine’s Fall Issue Launch Party with City Lights Bookstore!
Date: November 5, 2020
Join Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon with Jonathan Escoffery, Wendy C. Ortiz, Siel Ju, Andrés Reconco, Kathleen Mackay, and Nina Revoyr ZYZZYVA closes out its year-long celebration of its 35th anniversary with the publication of Issue No. 119—the […]
WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH & Jennifer Risher featured in Forbes!
Date: November 4, 2020
Risher’s memoir shares conversations with friends and family and her own inner dialogue, following her evolution after realizing that she and her husband were not just successful professionals but hugely […]
Tess Taylor reading some famous poetry brought to you by All Things Considered!
Date: November 4, 2020
Walt Whitman, Judith Harris And Whitman Again: What To Read On Election Day MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And now to help you stay steady through this long night, some poetry, […]
F(r)iction Lit interviews Lara Ehrlich about ANIMAL WIFE!
Date: November 4, 2020
While writing this and the next few stories in the collection, I was interested in exploring the threshold between childhood and adulthood and how fraught this period is with anxiety, […]
Jennifer Risher featured at the Bay Area Book Festival!
Date: November 2, 2020
Following her live Women Lit conversation with Robin Richards Donohoe, Jennifer talked with us about the dream of wealth versus the reality, how to do philanthropy right in the midst […]
Electric Literature gives Kristen Millares Young’s SUBDUCTION a recommendation
Date: November 2, 2020
Subduction by Kristen Millares Young In this debut novel by Cuban American journalist Kristen Millares Young, Mexican American anthropologist Claudia flees Seattle for the Olympic Peninsula Makah reservation after her husband […]
Francisco Aragón featured in a conversation on Words on a Wire podcast!
Date: November 2, 2020
In today’s episode listen to the conversation between host Daniel Chacon and poet Francisco Aragon about his most recent work ‘About Rubén.’ Aragon’s poems and translations have appeared in various […]
Keith Flynn featured reading from THE SKIN OF MEANING at The Appalachian Cultural Center!
Date: October 31, 2020
On October 30th, Keith Flynn wowed us with poems and music, including new work from “The Skin of Meaning.” Thanks, Keith, for a wonderful afternoon, and we look forward to […]
Reviews:
Ysabel de la Rosa reviews Alphabet of Love
Date: March 16, 2020
Alphabet of Love Bart Edelman. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $9.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-09-9 For some months, I have been intending to post a brief review of poet Bart Edelman’s book, […]
Losing Helen Receives Star Review from Shelf Awareness
Date: March 16, 2020
“This meditative, grace-filled gem is moving and soul-enriching.” — Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
52 Men” is a hit with book bloggers!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Lizzy Baldwin, creator of My Little Book Blog, praises Louise Wareham Leonard’s writing style, calling it “beautiful and languid.” Baldwin loved how 52 Men was able to give so much story in […]
Chad Parmenter, The Missouri Review
Date: March 16, 2020
“Frankness and love are brought together with Brown’s brilliant combination of the sacred and vernacular. . . . Brown alternates the poems’ shapes on the page, giving us the sense […]
Dana Gioia reviews Barbaric Mercies
Date: March 16, 2020
Barbaric Mercies Gaylord Brewer. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $12.95 (88p) ISBN 1-888996-67-6 Gaylord Brewer’s Barbaric Mercies is a book of extraordinary and delightful individuality. Alternately aggressive, outrageous, whimsical, and heartfelt, […]
Review of how to get over by t’ai freedom ford
Date: March 16, 2020
“how to get over is an instruction manual for the hopeless navigating uncomfortable personal spaces where the need to transform begins.” HOW TO GET OVER has been reviewed by The Blueshift […]
Elizabeth Robinson reviews Bone Light
Date: March 16, 2020
Bone Light Orlando White. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-59709-135-0 Orlando White’s Bone Light recreates poetry from the molecular level. His vision presents language letter by letter: as […]
Midwest Book Review Recommends Cairn
Date: March 16, 2020
Midwest Book Review provided a short review of Peggy Shumaker’s latest work Cairn: New and Selected. A collection of poems which encompass Peggy’s experiences in Alaska and Arizona, Midwest Book Review writes that […]
The Florida Review praises IN JUNE THE LABYRINTH
Date: March 16, 2020
The fantastic Florida Review gave a rave review of Cynthia Hogue’s In June the Labyrinth, calling it “a stunning and unforgettable book.” Thanks Florida Review!
Gregory Orr reviews Avocations
Date: March 16, 2020
Avocations Sam Hamill. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59709-086-5 Who can match him for range, passion, and scholarship? What aspect of poetry from Zen aesthetics to political engagement […]