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:

North American Review praises Chopper! Chopper!

Date: February 5, 2014

Verionica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives was called a "genunie treasure" by Vince Gotera in the North American Review. Read the full article in the most recent issue […]

Another Sonic Masterpiece” for Douglas Kearney”

Date: January 30, 2014

Douglas Kearney's latest poetry collection, Patter, got an early review from blogger and The Rumpus poetry editor, Brian Spears, on his personal blog New in Des Moines. Spears describes the […]

Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang Reviewed by The Rumpus

Date: January 8, 2014

Jessica Piazza's poetry collection Interrobang recieves an enthusiastic review from literary site The Rumpus. Writer Mag Gabbert proclaims, "The experience of reading these poems is like wandering through a hall […]

Pedestal Magazine Reviews Nicelle Davis’ Becoming Judas

Date: January 8, 2014

Pedestal Magazine reviewed Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas, complimeting the poet on her unique ability to mix topics of religion, love and desire, among others, into one seemless collection. JoSelle Vanderhooft […]

Steve Basset’s Golden Ghetto Receives Praise

Date: January 2, 2014

The Bulletin of Overseas Brats praises Steve Basset's memoir Golden Ghetto. "This book has the benefit of a very gifted writer because the more interested and fascinated he becomes, the […]

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