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 […]
News & Reviews
News:
A&E roundup: Pickens commissioned to create Wortham Center courtyard mural
Date: August 19, 2020
A few weeks after completing her role as one of the three lead artists on the Asheville Area Arts Council’s downtown Black Lives Matter mural, Jenny Pickens is hard at […]
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 […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour Featured on Spectrum News 1
Date: August 13, 2020
The Broad Stage and esteemed local publisher Red Hen Press returned on July 16 with an enhanced and compelling Season 2 of Red Hen Press Poetry Hour, moderated by award-winning […]
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 […]
These independent Southern California book publishers reveal how they’re handling the pandemic
Date: August 10, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit earlier this year and stay-at-home orders went into effect in cities worldwide, it left people with more time read, but it also created a slew […]
Poets on Craft: Tina Schumann and Jenna Le
Date: August 10, 2020
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing […]
Reviews:
YA Books Central Reviewed AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback!
Date: May 1, 2023
Aqueous is a debut novel set in a world where life on land is dangerous and harsh. To save humanity, an underwater paradise is built in the ocean.
David Mas Masumoto’s SECRET HARVESTS featured in the Southern Review of Books!
Date: April 25, 2023
David Mas Masumoto has a reputation as a remarkable writer. His previous work includes Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996), Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (1998), and Four […]
Brenda Cárdenas’ TRACE featured in RHINO Reviews!
Date: April 25, 2023
I heard Brenda Cárdenas read from her new collection, Trace, at The Hungry Brain in Chicago: an incantation, a call to action. By the time I got to the book […]
RHINO Poetry reviews Francesca Bell’s WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: April 25, 2023
Between grief and relief, Francesca Bell’s poems don’t pause, they flow – like a warm bath, and someone quietly bringing a candle; then a cold shower, and the body awakened […]
DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE by Peter Ulrich reviewed in PROG!
Date: April 24, 2023
A long-overdue tale recounted by way of an erstwhile member’s memoir.
Jade Shyback’s AQUEOUS featured in Kirkus Reviews!
Date: April 18, 2023
Climate disasters amplified by greed have rendered Earth’s surface uninhabitable and space travel impossible; now just three deep-ocean merstations stand between humankind and extinction. Desperate to ensure her last child’s […]
Alyssa Graybeal’s FLOPPY reviewed in Library Journal!
Date: April 18, 2023
In this compelling memoir, debut author and cartoonist Graybeal writes about her life living with chronic pain and her childhood diagnosis of the rare genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos […]
Červená Barva Press reviews David Mason’s PACIFIC LIGHT!
Date: April 11, 2023
In Pacific Light, his newest volume of poems, David Mason proves again that he is a poet whose roots are deep in the mountains and oceans and the time—present, past, and […]
Oakville News Reviews AQUEOUS by Jade Shyback!
Date: April 3, 2023
After a phenomenal reception for her debut novel Aqueous at the Winter Institute American Booksellers Association convention in Seattle Washington this February, Oakville’s Jade Shyback is ready for the real publication launch right here […]
Ink19 recommends DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE by Peter Ulrich
Date: March 27, 2023
Peter Ulrich writes his memoir as a witness to the rise of one of the most inspiring, celebrated, and enigmatic independent bands to come out of London in the ’80s. […]