Substantial Q&A with Didi Jackson on MOON JAR. Thank you Adroit Journal!
Date: December 9, 2020
Benjamin Aleshire sits down with Didi Jackson in a conversation about her collection MOON JAR. Read the full interview here!
News & Reviews
News:
Tea by the Sea & High Skies featured in “books you may have missed”
Date: December 7, 2020
Photographer Matt Witt has a large list of media you may have missed. Donna Hemans’ Tea by the Sea and Tracy Daughtery’s High Skies have been featured in the list. […]
Rex Wilder and Ron Koertge to present at Vroman’s Bookstore virtual event!
Date: December 7, 2020
In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. […]
ANIMAL WIFE wins BEST book cover of the year at Electric Literature!
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article […]
Q&A with Jennifer Risher, writing on tough topics!
Date: December 7, 2020
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the […]
Excerpt from THE PRESENCE OF THINGS PAST translated into Italian!
Date: December 7, 2020
” I had been there twice, but by now so many years had gone by that I had to ask the girl in the office where it was. She gave me […]
THE LIKELY WORLD by Melanie Conroy-Goldman, on Lit Reactor’s staff picks of best books in 2020!
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you Lit Reactor! Read the rest of their list here!
Listen to Elise Paschen as she reads Heritage, X for the Library of Congress
Date: December 3, 2020
Elise Paschen reads and discusses her poem “Heritage, X” on July 13, 2020, from her study in Harbert, Michigan. Paschen is the author of The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities, and Houses: […]
ANIMAL WIFE on a holiday reading list from the Kenyon Review!
Date: December 2, 2020
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, a collection of fairy tales that turn up the volume on the quiet desperation in the lives of women and girls until the characters scream, rage, […]
Coastal Shelf has featured one of Tina Schumann’s poems this week!
Date: December 2, 2020
Issue 1|2: “Nothing Personal” by Tina Schumann ~ Nothing Personal Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street?The reliable creak of the screen door, or the catssleeping […]
Reviews:
Douglas Kearney’s PATTER reviewed by The Georgia Review
Date: March 18, 2021
In a decade of reading and writing about motherhood poetry—including an essay-review in these pages in 2019—I have found no universal truths about motherhood. However, as I’ve worked with poet […]
SEX & TAIPEI CITY by Yu-Han Chao reviewed in Home Planet News!
Date: March 17, 2021
Bawdy and tragic, Taipei in Taiwan is not New York City. There is more Confucian shame than Taoist ecstasy. In these tales of love, lust and relationships gone awry, Yun-Han […]
The Culture Commentator reviews GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: March 11, 2021
What happens when a Midwestern girl migrates to a haunted Southern town, whose river is a graveyard, whose streets bear the names of Southern slave owners? How can she build […]
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE reviewed on West Branch!
Date: February 24, 2021
Like many devoted bibliophiles, I love to visit archives. I sigh contentedly while enacting the familiar rituals of shutting the locker door on all of my belongings except two mechanical […]
Shelf Media Group reviews UNSEEN CITY by Amy Shearn!
Date: February 24, 2021
The Past Meets the Present Shearn’s book, Unseen City, is an unexpected entry into an historical home and the contrast between life and death. Or, perhaps more fitting, the contrast […]
North Carolina Literary Review features & reviews Keith Flynn’s THE SKIN OF MEANING!
Date: February 24, 2021
The journal is online so visit below for the full text!
Keith Flynn’s THE SKIN OF MEANING reviewed in Pedestal Magazine!
Date: February 24, 2021
Keith Flynn might be the love child of William Blake and Etta James. In his latest collection, The Skin of Meaning, he moves easily from whisper to croon to full-throated growl. […]
Chelsea Catherine’s SUMMER OF THE CICADAS reviewed by Shelf Media Group!
Date: February 17, 2021
A Slow Burn Everything about Jessica “Jess” is a slow burn. From the way she yearns for Natasha to the lingering scent of death that she can’t escape. Jess smolders […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Khalisa Rae’s GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT!
Date: February 17, 2021
Rae considers the intersection of history and modernity in the American South in her provocative debut. “The South will birth a new kind of haunting in your black girl-ness,” she […]
GHOST IN A BLACK GIRL’S THROAT reviewed by Yes Poetry!
Date: February 3, 2021
One facet in poetry’s beauty is its urgency. Its collective need–which is beyond desire–to facilitate a process that weaves its spill and story. Urgency is one of the driving forces […]