Poetry for Our Time!
Date: August 31, 2020
Three poet laureates deliver their poems as a beacon of hope during these unprecendted times of fear, uncertainty, and isolatio Watch the video here!
News & Reviews
News:
The Poetry of Architecture
Date: August 31, 2020
A pen. Some paper. A bit of inspiration. A quiet place to think. Of all the things a writer needs, it’s the last one that’s the hardest to come by. […]
Kim Dower- “They Took the Mailbox Away”
Date: August 27, 2020
Kim Dower reads “They took the mailbox away” from her collection “Air Kissing on Mars” Watch the full video here.
Susan Kinsolving Announced as Finalist for Connecticut Book Awards 2020
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
Dolores Hayden Announced as Finalist for Connecticut Book Awards 2020
Date: August 27, 2020
The Connecticut Center for the Book and Connecticut Humanities on Wednesday announced the finalists for the prizes, an annual honor bestowed on authors and illustrators who live in or are […]
2020 Washington State Book Awards: Finalists
Date: August 27, 2020
Poetry Finalists:All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers (BOA Editions)Bright Stain by Francesca Bell (Red Hen Press)Hail and Farewell by Abby E. Murray (Perugia Press)Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal (Copper Canyon Press)Turn Around Time: A Walking Poem […]
Foreword Reviews Book of the Day
Date: August 27, 2020
Sugar, Smoke, Song: “Sensuous and surprising…”
Book lunch to include music, cocktails and doughnuts
Date: August 27, 2020
Author Lara Ehrlich knows how to add a little razzle-dazzle to a virtual event. Ehrlich, whose award-winning short story collection, “Animal Wife,” will make its debut — virtually — next Tuesday, with […]
Sebastian Matthews’ Playlist for His Memoir “Beyond Repair”
Date: August 26, 2020
Beyond Repair by Sebastian Matthews In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include […]
Are We Comfortable Encountering Strangers Anymore?
Date: August 26, 2020
Sebastian Matthews on Balancing Suspicion and Good Faith Beyond Repair is told through a series of encounters with friends and neighbors, colleagues and strangers, from early 2014 to spring 2019. […]
Reviews:
Library Journal Reviews WALKING WHEEL by Molly Fisk
Date: June 17, 2026
“With a narrative that immediately draws in readers, these poems are lovely, the story, irresistible.”
Australian Book Review Heralds David Mason’s COLD FIRE
Date: June 15, 2026
“Migration, travel, and home – geographic and metaphoric – are common subjects in this collection. ‘Listen well’, the speaker in “The Monuments’ urges, as he describes a violinist busking in […]
California Review of Books Praises TALKING TO THE WOLF by Rebecca Chace
Date: June 15, 2026
“Chace makes each woman complex in her urgency, in good part because of the strength of the writing that penetrates to their core.”
Jacobin Reviews Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK
Date: June 11, 2026
“Like a good actor, Kill Dick hits its marks, stays true to the script, controls its eyeline to avoid spiking the camera. Is it real? You look up from the page to […]
Institute of American Indian Arts praises William Archila’s CANÍCULA/DOG DAYS
Date: June 9, 2026
In this bilingual collection, much wisdom emerges from the struggle of living through a civil war and then migrating from El Salvador to Los Angeles. […]The history and knowledge that […]
Rebecca Chace’s TALKING TO THE WOLF reviewed by a few more words!
Date: June 2, 2026
In Rebecca Chace’s new novel, Talking to the Wolf (Red Hen Press; 208 pages), three friends in their mid-50s—Val, Sasha, and Lauren—prepare for their thirty-fifth high school reunion while mourning […]
Amy Pence’s YELLOW Lauded by Midwest Book Review
Date: June 2, 2026
“Amy Pence’s ability to weave poetic overtones of observation and dialogue into Z’s story permeates her life with a richness of language and realization uncommon in LGBTQ+ stories.”
Laura Kasischke’s THE LIFEGUARD is Heralded by Midwest Book Review
Date: June 2, 2026
“THE LIFEGUARD by Laura Kasischke is raised to an extraordinary level of literary excellence and is unreservedly recommended.”
Midwest Book Review Praises Luke Goebel’s KILL DICK
Date: June 2, 2026
“Original, deftly crafted, and a simply riveting read from start to finish, author Luke Goebel’s distinctive, character and narrative driven style brings his novel, “Kill Dick”, to an impressive level […]
Library Journal reviews Khanh Ha’s THE AFTERLIFE OF A THREADBARE JESTER!
Date: June 2, 2026
In his latest novel (following An Artist’s Legacy), Ha returns to a 20th-century postwar Vietnam setting, the same setting and time he deployed in earlier fictional works, notably The Demon […]