News:

Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?

Date: August 26, 2020

Sebastian Matthews on Balancing Suspicion and Good Faith Beyond Repair is told through a series of encounters with friends and neighbors, colleagues and strangers, from early 2014 to spring 2019. […]

They Write By Night

Date: August 24, 2020

This video by Poetry.LA features Red Hen author William Anchila’s newest poem!

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 […]

1 84 85 86 87 88 134

Reviews:

Existential Treadmill (American Book Review)

Date: June 17, 2009

The stories in Greg Sanders's debut collection are difficult to categorize. They owe a debt to Franz Kafka and fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges but seem just as strongly to […]

Weights and Measures by Jack Smith

Date: June 3, 2009

AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, Vol. 30, No. 4, May/June 2009"Author of the prize-winning novel The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (2001), editor of several literary anthologies and numerous essays and stories […]

DeWitt Henry

Date: June 2, 2009

DeWitt Henry, mon sembable, mon frere, was two years behind me at Amherst, but way ahead of me in life. While the rest of us were yearning for graduate school, […]

Gabriel Gomez of Local iQ reviews Bone Light

Date: May 18, 2009

The work of the poet is one of reassessment: it's a continual look at the intricacies and minutiae of a world outfitted with a voluminous gadgetry of words. Poems, at […]

Driskell’s ‘elegant and very wise verse’ “”

Date: May 14, 2009

By Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Special to The Courier-Journal, February 28, 2009Seed Across Snow, a lush collection of intelligent, elegant and very wise verse, is Louisvillian Kathleen Driskell's stunning second book. […]

Work” Interprets the World”

Date: May 9, 2009

Bradfield's poems guide us alertly into this treacherous territory pocked with political pitfalls and theoretical quagmires. One hardly notices the perils that abound because Bradfield is such a deft naturalist, […]

Interpretive Work reviewed by Nicky Beer in Diagram

Date: May 9, 2009

This fascination with naming necessarily leads to one of the book's recurring thematic questions: what do we really mean when we say nature and natural?…As the inaugural publication of Arktoi […]

1 93 94 95 96 97 100