Black Earth Institue: Social Distancing
Date: June 4, 2020
In dreams I walk through crowds, brushing arms, knocking elbows. Skin to skin: hands are bare. Crocuses congregate in beds, along sidewalks. Unlatching city gates,
News & Reviews
News:
Poets.org: Aerial, Wild Pine
Date: June 4, 2020
A flare of russet,green fronds, surpriseof flush againstthe bare grey cypressin winter woods. Cardinal wild pine,quill-leaf airplantor dog-drink-water.Spikes of bright bloom–exotic plumage.
Arts At MIT: A Writer’s Voyage: Mia Heavener, MIT Course 1, 2000
Date: June 4, 2020
“Be stubborn and ultimately believe in your writing,” advises first-time novelist Mia Heavener ’00, “especially if you are having crappy writing days.” On April 13, Heavener visited Wyn Kelley’s literature […]
Lithub: Writing Place in a Time of Crisis
Date: June 4, 2020
Tess Taylor’s new poetry collection Rift Zone is published this month. She shares five books about writing place in a time of crisis.
Datebook: How Bay Area authors stay creative amid the coronavirus pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Poet Tess Taylor questioned what it means to be creative, when every day feels like a radical reinvention of life. “These days, helping myself and my family steer a way around sadness, […]
NY Times: We’re Doing What We Can to Keep Truckers on the Road
Date: June 4, 2020
LINCOLN, Neb. — My mother was born into a flu-stricken household at the height of the pandemic of 1918. Within minutes she was swaddled in a homemade quilt and placed […]
PSA: Francisco Aragón “1985”
Date: June 4, 2020
1985 Long and black, the streaksof gray, aflutter in the lightwind as she prepares to tell her story at the Federal Building:reaching into a tattered sackshe pulls out a doll […]
Chapter 16: The Skin of Meaning excerpt
Date: June 4, 2020
The Skin of Meaning He was late to the party and without directions,though his invitation was secure, and his instinctskeenly honed to an acceptable edge, and as we arewaiting to […]
Daily Poetry: Ascension
Date: June 4, 2020
Ascension Didi Jackson The blue jays lay claimto the raspberry busharriving in groups of four or five:one holds a rubied berry in its beakand feeds it up in the white […]
Lithub: ‘Almost Animal’ A Poem by Didi Jackson
Date: June 4, 2020
after Käthe Kollwitz I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut.At the morgue, I busied myself countingthe lacerations on my husband’s neck and wrists.I wore sunglasses and […]
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 […]