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:

Cake Time receives STARRED REVIEW by Kirkus!

Date: January 24, 2017

CAKE TIME [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Siel Ju Review Issue Date: February 1, 2017 Online Publish Date: January 23, 2017 Publisher:Red Hen Press Pages: 192 Price ( Paperback ): $15.95 Publication […]

Barrelhouse Reviews Sings Praises

Date: September 8, 2016

Barrelhouse says Rozema's essays are "humble, honest, insightful, and, like the best essays on any topic, but especially ones tinged with spirituality, they aren’t too sure about any one thing. […]

After the Dam review from Kirkus

Date: June 30, 2016

"Taut, beautifully written, and suspenseful, this resonant, feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber." Kirkus details the book's plot points, setting, and themes

Kirkus gives The Currawongs a Mighty review

Date: June 30, 2016

“Delightful. . . . A nimble and very funny collection of stories from a writer who clearly values the human condition in all its myriad forms.” Check out the observant […]

Dean Kostos: This is Not a Skyscraper

Date: February 16, 2016

"An interview with Dean Kostos about the power of pauses, structure, and zebra metaphors at Coney Island." The online magazine Guernica contucted an interview with author Dean Kostos as well […]

The Yellow Door” Celebrated by Nichi Bei!”

Date: January 20, 2016

"Journey through a post-war Japanese American landscape with Amy Uyematsu as she defines race, unpacks the family incarceration experience and discovers a confluence with Japanese culture in “The Yellow Door,” […]

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