News:

New Poetry Evokes A Fractured Landscape

Date: August 20, 2020

Book tours have been canceled since shelter-in-place began, so we’re bringing Bay Area author readings to you as part of our “New Arrivals” series. This one is from El Cerrito […]

Sheela-Na-Gig

Date: August 17, 2020

By Maurya Simon Carved as the keystone in this Welsh church, she presides over penitents who see, when gazing upward towards some god or stars, a nude woman with bent […]

Poem: My Father Disappears Into Flowers

Date: August 17, 2020

Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs. Sometimes it’s not enough to be where we are. Sometimes we need to be everywhere: present with the lost, held by transient blossoms. […]

Maurya Simon: On Some Hand-Me-Downs from G-d

Date: August 17, 2020

Well, mortality’s one of the cloaks you tossed in the bin, as well as sin, I suppose, and all this endless yearning for some divine inspiration. You also tossed forgivenessinto the Goodwill […]

A Message to the City from Kristen Millares Young

Date: August 10, 2020

Good morning. It’s Friday, August 7, and we’re ending the week with something special: a message from the novelist and journalist Kristen Millares Young, followed by a visual poem that is an excerpt […]

Local Author Julia Koets Talks About Her Recent Memoir

Date: August 10, 2020

Author Julia Koets, who holds a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, released The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays this past November. She joins our contributor (and former classmate) Kelly Blewitt to […]

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Reviews:

FOREWORD praises EAT LESS WATER

Date: March 16, 2020

Thanks to Anna Call from Foreword for the great review of Florencia Ramirez’s EAT LESS WATER, calling it “a charming work that gets its point across beautifully.”

Review of BECOMING LYLA DORE

Date: March 16, 2020

Reviewed by Cindy Hochman from Skullwise Cat (page 69) “Teri Youmans Grimm’s account is as ambitious and seductive as Lyla Dore herself. With poems that unfold as grandly as scenes from the […]

David Mason’s Book Reviewed by The Dark Horse Magazine

Date: March 16, 2020

Sea Salt by David Mason was reviewed by The Dark Horse in their Autumn/Winter 2015 issue. It’s pretty exciting to read such a great review all the way from Scotland: “Reading Sea Salt is to […]

The Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2008

Date: March 16, 2020

Describing people, creating them from the ground up, is a slippery thing. They don’t stand still, like objects. Every fresh breeze, new thought, distant sound sets them trembling like leaves […]

New Pages Raves about If Not For This

Date: March 16, 2020

Jason Hess writes for New Pages, applauding If Not For This for its poignancy. “Pete Fromm’s If Not For This was the most moving novel I read in 2014…Fromm packs a lifetime […]

New Pages calls Andrea’s work a poetic fusion

Date: March 16, 2020

Katie Rensch reviews Andrea Scarpino’s book of poetry Once, Then in New Pages, and commends its tender language. “These poems are intensely observational and perceptive…Whether describing the death of a childhood apple tree […]

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