Poet Lory Bedikian says poetry is her release
Date: July 16, 2020
When Lory Bedikian was a girl, she sat under her parents’ orange tree in the backyard and collected flowers and took the leaves and blossoms and rolled them up like […]
News & Reviews
News:
Hoopla: July Riveting Reads
Date: July 16, 2020
Hoopla featured Aimee Liu’s Glorious Boy on their list of Riveting Reads for July 2020. Find the entire list here.
#HalfMyDAF Announces First Matching Grants to 147 Nonprofits
Date: July 16, 2020
#HalfMyDAF today announced the results of its first grant-matching drawing to support nonprofits and their work. The organization will give $600,000 in matching grants to 147 nonprofits in 30 states […]
Red Hen Press Poetry Hour revamps for second season return
Date: July 16, 2020
Covid-19 is still preventing locals from gathering for entertainment purposes, but The Broad Stage and LA-based publisher Red Hen Press are excited to begin season two of the Red Hen […]
Lory Bedikian Shares Armenian Experience on “Finding Truths and Creating Arts”
Date: July 16, 2020
The Broad State and Red Hen Press are hosting an episode of “Finding Truths and Creating Arts” on July 16 at 6 pm (PST) via Facebook live and on their […]
What We Leave Behind: Learning About Resilience From Boney M’s “By the Rivers of Babylon”
Date: July 15, 2020
Sound falls away, and my immediate surroundings are so quiet it feels life is limited to just two sounds: Boney M’s 1978 hit “By the Rivers of Babylon” playing on […]
Read Your Way Around the World
Date: July 15, 2020
With travel plans cancelled for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for new ways to feel transported from our homes, without putting our families at risk. That’s where these book […]
Her Sister’s Tattoo on The Bill Newman Show April 13th 2020
Date: July 14, 2020
Ellen Meeropol speaks with the local North Hampton news radio on the Bill Newman Show to discuss the book launch of Her Sister’s Tattoo. Listen in for an inside scoop […]
Howard Zinn Book Fair: Books to the Barricades Ellen Meeropol, Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 14, 2020
Her Sister’s Tattoo begins in the heat of August 1968, as sisters Esther and Rosa Cohen, daughters of union activists, march against the war in Vietnam. When a young man […]
Gridlock: A Precursor to Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
Reviews:
2018 Fall/Winter Reading List
Date: October 3, 2018
It’s 1923 and 19-year-old Dara falls in love with her best friend, who happens to be a girl. To avoid a bleak, terrifying future in their small town, Dara takes […]
Interview with Cai Emmons, Weather Woman
Date: October 3, 2018
Andy Davis from Eco-fiction recently interviewed Cai Emmons author of Weather Woman. Davis asks Emmons about her inspirations and knowledge needed to write about the character in the story. Davis […]
Review: Weather Woman is a fantasy about control and illusion
Date: October 3, 2018
Weather Woman is best read as a story about a twenty-something who can’t make lemonade out of life’s lemons. Life is often a journey from crisis to crisis, and our […]
Asterix Journal reviews Gabriel Jesiolowski’s ‘As Burning Leaves’
Date: October 2, 2018
"…Jesiolowski has crafted a book of movement and landscape, in which individuals quietly but significantly consider what it is to move and transform from place to place" Thanks, Asterix Journal! […]
10 Great Resons To Read Fiction In October 2018
Date: October 2, 2018
Oakland Public Library has complied 10 ficiton books that everyone should read this October! Read the full article here
Peggy Shumaker’s CAIRN reviewed in INTO THE VOID
Date: September 27, 2018
Peggy Shumaker was the Alaska State Writer Laureate for 2010-2012 and the founding editor of Boreal Books, publishers of fine art and literature from Alaska. Cairn, her recently published collection, […]
As Burning Leaves’ receives a stunning review from Lambda Literary!
Date: September 26, 2018
Gabriel Jesiolowski articulates the vacancy within the story of grief in As Burning Leaves, a book-length poem in forty-seven segments. Read the full review
Dean Kostos: Poet of Two Worlds
Date: September 12, 2018
The lit Pub did a review on Dean Kostos's Poetry style from his various poetry books. It can be argued that all poetry is a negotiation between two worlds. An […]
Informing the Past: Allison Joseph?s ?Confessions of a Barefaced Woman?
Date: September 11, 2018
Allison Joseph's, Confessions of Barefaced Woman was reviewed by Robert Sheldon from MockingHeart Review. Allison Joseph?s new collection Confessions of a Barefaced Woman is a forthright and unabashed examination of […]
Bigfoots In Paradise
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]