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 Library Jounral reviews Beasts Behave in Foreign Land
Date: April 27, 2017
Startling and successful; for most readers.
The Translator Poems of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Date: April 24, 2017
"Her poetry is always translating something—experiences, cultures, memories—for someone else." Lena's skill with translation and her new collection of poetry WATER & SALT has been covered in SEATTLE WEEKLY! Read […]
Review of Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s WATER & SALT
Date: April 24, 2017
"Tuffaha’s poems are required reading material for any Arab-American literature list, and for all Americans whose knowledge of the Middle East ends at what the media reports." Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's […]
Fiction Writers Review Interview with Siel Ju
Date: April 17, 2017
Congratulations to Siel Ju on this amazing interview with Fiction Writers Review! "It?s interesting, because it didn?t really occur to me that my stories were so much about sex until […]
Library Journal review of Lena Tuffaha’s Water & Salt
Date: April 6, 2017
Of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage, Tuffaha offers a beautifully crafted debut that uses clear, observant language to explore the immigrant experience and the burdens of ongoing war. As she […]
Library Journal (starred review) of t’ai freedom ford’s how to get over!
Date: April 6, 2017
Winner of the Feminist Wires inaugural poetry contest, ford debuts with a fiery collection that uses language both evocatively rich and colloquially sharp and sly to capture the African American […]
Verónica Reyes Presents Poetry from Bordered Lives
Date: April 3, 2017
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh praises Verónica Reyes for her collection of poetry. "Verónica Reyes charges her lines—nearly every single one—with the sharp electricity of her East L.A. tongue. It’s […]
Portland Press Herald’ Reviews Ellen Meeropol’s ‘Kinship of Clover’
Date: April 3, 2017
"All good stories turn on conflict, but there is a plethora of discord and tension in ?Kinship of Clover.? At times, it almost overwhelms the story, requiring attentive reading so […]
Cake Time receives STARRED REVIEW by Kirkus!
Date: January 24, 2017
CAKE TIME [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Siel Ju Review Issue Date: February 1, 2017 Online Publish Date: January 23, 2017 Publisher:Red Hen Press Pages: 192 Price ( Paperback ): $15.95 Publication […]
Barrelhouse Reviews Sings Praises
Date: September 8, 2016
Barrelhouse says Rozema's essays are "humble, honest, insightful, and, like the best essays on any topic, but especially ones tinged with spirituality, they aren’t too sure about any one thing. […]