Date: June 30, 2020
This month: Seattle-based author and journalist Kristen Millares Young, whose excellent debut novel, “Subduction,” set in Neah Bay, is a staff pick at The Paris Review. Young earned her master’s degree in creative writing in […]
Date: June 29, 2020
June Read With Jenna Book Club author Megha Majumdar recommends PIGS by Johanna Stoberock as one of five books to read next! See the full segment here!
Date: June 26, 2020
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her […]
Date: June 12, 2020
Maurya Simon reads poems from The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems 1980-2016 (2018). This reading was originally given with Peggy Shumaker as the inaugural reading in the Tom Sanders Memorial Reading Series.
Date: June 5, 2020
I doubt I will ever go to the Antarctic but this book makes me feel I’ve (almost) encountered it. Bradfield recommends listening to the “unearthly” underwater vocalisations of Weddell seals, […]
Date: June 5, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
Date: June 4, 2020
Episode #39 welcomes former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge and has new book, Oldguy: Superhero—poems from which have been featured regularly in Rattle for years.
Date: June 4, 2020
David Mason gives a hypothetical “last lecture”!
Date: June 4, 2020
It is Fourth of July weekend, and until a few days earlier, we had forgotten that for coastal towns this is prime time for tourism. Despite the busy sidewalks and […]
Date: June 4, 2020
With the cancellation of the Virginia Festival of the Book, and recommendations to practice social distancing, there’s never been a better time to pick up some extra reading material. While […]
Date: January 30, 2014
Glassworks reviewed Ernest Hilbert's latest poetry collection, All of You on the Good Earth, praising its use of perspective and observation to reflect on past and modern humanity. Writer Stephanie […]
Date: January 8, 2014
Jessica Piazza's poetry collection Interrobang recieves an enthusiastic review from literary site The Rumpus. Writer Mag Gabbert proclaims, "The experience of reading these poems is like wandering through a hall […]
Date: January 8, 2014
Pedestal Magazine reviewed Nicelle Davis' Becoming Judas, complimeting the poet on her unique ability to mix topics of religion, love and desire, among others, into one seemless collection. JoSelle Vanderhooft […]
Date: January 8, 2014
Kathleen Driskell's poem "Seed" from her collection Seed Across Snow has been featured on the Spokesman Review. Writer Ted Kooser describes the poem's focus on the sweetness of parent-child bonds, […]
Date: January 8, 2014
Peter Crimmins examines the evolution of the sonnet in his article for Newsworks, focusing on modern poetry that reimagines this classic poetic form in new and exciting ways. Red Hen's […]
Date: January 8, 2014
The Ampersand Review praised Nicelle Davis' poetry collection, Becoming Judas, in a review of her work. Reviewer Darby Laine writes, "This talented author's living testimony is crafted as interpretation, extension […]
Date: January 2, 2014
The Bulletin of Overseas Brats praises Steve Basset's memoir Golden Ghetto. "This book has the benefit of a very gifted writer because the more interested and fascinated he becomes, the […]
Date: December 13, 2013
Lisa Barrow from Alibi calls Steve Basset's style in Golden Ghetto: How the Americans & French Fell In & Out of Love During the Cold War "enthusiastic." "Bassetts old-school journalistic […]
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]
Date: October 30, 2013
Brian McGackin from LitReactor calls Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife "the book that's going to get you back into poetry." "Koertge isn't trying to be smart; he is smart. He […]
