News:

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Reviews:

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 […]

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