Local News Pasadena interviews David Mas Masumoto, author of SECRET HARVESTS
Date: February 10, 2025
“A Promise of Peaches” Many Japanese Americans advocate for human rights. There’s a reason.
News & Reviews
News:
April Ossmann featured in video, “Our Voices, Bodies Rising”.
Date: February 6, 2025
This original and unique pandemic film created by local Vermont artists and performers, marks the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in dance and poetry, and is dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader […]
April Ossmann featured in NON-PARTISAN / TUNNEL BROOK, collaborated by Aaron Marcus, and Sam Sanders
Date: February 6, 2025
Every April in Montpelier, visitors can be found staring intently at store windows, to which are affixed hundreds of poems by local authors. This is how we gratefully stumbled on […]
The Australian features David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT
Date: February 6, 2025
The Australian showcases David Mason’s poem EENSY.
KCBX features Yang Huang, author of OASIS
Date: February 4, 2025
Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to […]
International Armenian Literary Alliance chooses Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD in its Literary Lights series
Date: February 4, 2025
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian is part of this year’s Literary Lights series by the International Armenian Literary Alliance.
The New York Times spotlights Maria Tallchief, mother of BLOOD WOLF MOON author Elise Paschen
Date: February 4, 2025
The New York Times honors Native American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief and features lines from her daughter, poet Elise Paschen.
VOA Africa podcast features Esinam Bediako, author of BLOOD ON THE BRAIN
Date: February 3, 2025
Ghanaian American writer Esinam Bediako discusses her new novel, Blood on the Brain, a tale that follows Akosua, a young woman recovering from a concussion.
The Georgia Review features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
The Georgia Review features the essay “Mobius: A Meditation on Art and Science” by Alison Hawthorne Deming in its Winter 2024 issue.
Prairie Schooner features an essay of Alison Hawthorne Deming, the author of BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER
Date: January 29, 2025
Prairie Schooner features Alison Hawthorne Deming’s essay “The Eye of Water” in its recent issue.
Reviews:
The Mindful Word reviews CIRCADIAN
Date: March 16, 2020
Many thanks to The Mindful Word for this lovely review of Chelsey Clammer’s CIRCADIAN, noting “Clammer is swift with language, intelligent and funny. She’s lyrical, poetic and sometimes mesmerizing in her prose. […]
Fred Gardaphe, rave, FRA NOI
Date: March 16, 2020
Fred Gardaphe, in the October, 2008, FRA NOI (48/10), raves about Earthquake I.D.: “A well focused plot tightly wound… Enough mystery to keep the pages turning while telling a contemporary story that can […]
Mike Ruppert at FTW’s Act 2 Blog: BOOK REVIEW “Limousine, Midnight Blue: Fifty Frames from the Zapruder Film”
Date: March 16, 2020
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-review-poetry-limousine-midnight.html
Publishers Weekly, September 22, 2008
Date: March 16, 2020
Realistic absurdity ties together the short stories of Sanders’s intelligent and funny collection. Throughout, unsuspecting protagonists become entangled in bizarre (and yet vaguely believable) situations. There’s Nadya, the Moscow-based freelance […]
Publishers Weekly, January 2009
Date: March 16, 2020
The passionate, yet controlled, third volume from Paschen (Infidelities) pursues the likenesses between human beings and other sorts of beasts: Paschen watches domestic animals, visits zoos and backyards, and records […]
Peggy Shumaker reviews Allegheny, Monangahela
Date: March 16, 2020
Allegheny, Monongahela Erinn Batykefer. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-59709-134-3 Close to the bone, Erinn Batykefer’s poems — sharp-edged as O’Keeffe’s paintings, skeletons visible and harrowing — are […]
“The Day My Mother Drowned,” and excerpt from LIVESAVING FOR BEGINNERS
Date: March 16, 2020
Tablet Magazine features an except from Anne Edelstein’s memoir, LIFESAVING FOR BEGINNERS! In the excerpt, Edelstein recollects the moment her mother, an experienced swimmer, drowned while on vacation at the […]
Ysabel de la Rosa reviews Alphabet of Love
Date: March 16, 2020
Alphabet of Love Bart Edelman. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $9.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-09-9 For some months, I have been intending to post a brief review of poet Bart Edelman’s book, […]
Losing Helen Receives Star Review from Shelf Awareness
Date: March 16, 2020
“This meditative, grace-filled gem is moving and soul-enriching.” — Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
52 Men” is a hit with book bloggers!”
Date: March 16, 2020
Lizzy Baldwin, creator of My Little Book Blog, praises Louise Wareham Leonard’s writing style, calling it “beautiful and languid.” Baldwin loved how 52 Men was able to give so much story in […]