Go Forth: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was a prize-winning journalist when I first met her and I first read the beginning of Subduction in a class I taught at the Port Townsend Writer’s […]
News & Reviews
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Seattle Arts & Lectures: An Interview with Kristen Millares Young, author of “Subduction”
Date: June 3, 2020
Last week, I spoke with Kristen Millares Young, author of the novel Subduction, released on April 14 by Red Hen Press. The story follows two such seekers to the tip of the […]
The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition I am zipped into a tent on my friend’s beachfront lawn. Caring for her mom and kids, she has a full house, […]
Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 2, 2020
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel […]
April 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us
Date: June 2, 2020
Ms. Magazine Ms. Feminist Know-It-All features Subduction! In this utterly unique and important first novel, Young examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a […]
On Diaspora, Encounter, and Emotional Restitution
Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Literary Events Go Virtual in the Time of COVID-19
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
CNN: Tell us what you’re reading right now
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
‘A Community Of Desperation’ Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
The Harvard Review Online features “Found Poem: Pocket Geology”
Date: June 2, 2020
Atop the Earth’s mantle, rock moving: Continents are milk skin floating on cocoa. A restless interior sweeps them along. In trenches minerals decay— at the core landmasses digest themselves. The crust does not movein one […]
Reviews:
The heart’s vast and cratered purpose’
Date: December 4, 2017
Many thanks to Elizabeth Savage for her insightful commentary on the poetic themes of Cynthia Hogue's In June the Labyrinth. Read it now
William Trowbridge’s VANISHING POINT is featured in Green Mountains Review
Date: November 17, 2017
William Trowbridge's collection of poems, VANISHING POINT, received a rave review in the online edition of Green Mountains Review. Read the review
Lambda Literary reviews HANGING ON OUR BONES
Date: November 9, 2017
Julie R. Enszer of Lambda Literary extols Judy Grahn's HANGING ON OUR OWN BONES! Enszer preface her lengthly review by praising Grahn's beloved presence in the lesbian literary community. She […]
Booklist Reviews LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS
Date: October 30, 2017
Booklist reviewer Karen Springen praises Anne Edelstein’s newest release, claiming “Families struggling to come to terms with unexpected deaths, especially suicides, may find comfort in this well-written memoir.” “
Chelsey Clammer interviewed by The Sunlight Press
Date: October 17, 2017
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WOW! Reviews CIRCADIAN by Chelsey Clammer
Date: October 16, 2017
Women of Writing reviewer Angela Makintosh gives high praise to Chelsey Clammer's debut collection of essays, CIRCADIAN. "Circadian is a masterfully written collection of 12 lyric essays that are poetic, […]
David Mason’s Libretto praised by Gramophone
Date: October 10, 2017
Red Hen author David Mason adapted Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER into a stunning operatic libretto, THE SCARLET LIBRETTO, that had its world premiere in May 2016 by Opera Colorado.
David Mason poem shared by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Date: October 3, 2017
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
FOREWORD reviews MIRACULUM MONSTRUM
Date: September 28, 2017
Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers recently reviewed Kathline Carr's MIRACULUM MONSTRUM, saying, "Haunting and eerie, Miraculum Monstrum is a fun-house mirror where past, present, and future bounce off one another." Read the full […]
Zack Ravas from ZYZZYVA Reviews CAKE TIME
Date: September 27, 2017
Zack Ravas of ZYZZYVA praises Siel Ju's for how she "expertly taps into the existential malaise of many thirty-something urban dwellers" in her award-winning novel, CAKE TIME. "Cake Time is […]