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. […]
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
Rockin’ Your Health Radio: Sebastian Matthews
Date: August 3, 2020
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Akron native pens story of love, loyalty and friendship
Date: August 3, 2020
The coming-of-age story of four boys in the High Country of western North Carolina after World War II, “The Falls of the Wyona” is a poignant, lyrical novella by Akron […]
A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives
Date: August 3, 2020
“One must cross the threshold heart of words,” Susan Howe writes early in her new book, “Concordance,” an appealingly jagged sequence of collage poems. The “threshold heart,” for Howe, is […]
Reviews:
My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus featured in Missoula Independent
Date: October 30, 2012
Here's what Michael Peck from Missoula Independent had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. – "Unflinching and funny, the book concerns itself with the seeming […]
Injecting Dreams into Cows featured on Examiner.com
Date: October 9, 2012
Kaye Lynne Booth from Examiner.com reviews Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows in a recent article.- "[Randall] has a knack for using language to surprise us and catch us off […]
Booklist loves Alice Derry’s Tremolo!
Date: September 27, 2012
Annie McCormick praises Alice Derry's Tremolo in a recent review for Booklist. – “Derry’s quietly captivating collection connects us through each merciless tremble and reverberating refrain. It’s as if one’s […]
Online literary magazine Parallax praises Brendan Constantine
Date: September 25, 2012
Here's what Isaac Dwyer had to say about Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe in a recent review for Parallax. – “Calamity Joe is quirky, clever, and just past the level of […]
Ship of Fool featured in New Letters Magazine
Date: September 25, 2012
Gary Dop had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge in New Letters Magazine. – “William Trowbridge’s Ship of Fool, through laughs and gaffes, reveals that, like […]
Blogger Cindy Sheppard calls My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus a must read!
Date: September 25, 2012
Here's what Cindy Sheppard had to say about My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent post on her blog, Cinzia, Lady in Weighting. – “This is a book […]
Calamity Joe makes The Gamut’s best of summer list!
Date: September 25, 2012
Janet Fitch picks Brendan Constantine’s Calamity Joe as one of her must reads for The Gamut's Books of Summer list. – "Poetry is the art of grabbing a fleeting moment […]
BookNAround praises David Maine’s latest book
Date: September 25, 2012
Kristen at BookNAround blog recommends her readers check out David Maine’s An Age of Madness for its slowly revealing plot that won’t let you put down the book until you […]
In the ice house featured in The Daily Iowan
Date: September 25, 2012
Genevieve Kaplan's In the ice house reviewed in The Daily Iowan – "Kaplan can rove at a delirious pace between the kitchen and the forest with syntactical precision. Winter is […]
Review for Snake on Shelf Awareness
Date: September 25, 2012
Freelance writer Donald Powell hails Gary Lemons' Snake as both an apocalyptic and tear-filled ride. – "Snake is a wonderful fable, a trickster tale, a vision of a world set […]