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:
Stephen Dobyns
Date: August 2, 2011
At first glance Jim Tilleys In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]
The Midwest Book Reviews’ take on Among the Goddesses
Date: August 2, 2011
"Driven and powerful writing in play format, Among the Goddesses is an excellent read and a first pick for literary fiction and poetry collections." The full review can be seen
Alicia Ostriker, author of No Heaven and The Book of Seventy reviews Among the Goddesses
Date: August 1, 2011
Among the Goddesses is a bold experiment. Magical, mystical, musical, it charts a woman's journey that reverses the journey of Odysseus. What is it to be aided by goddesses, if […]
From Publishers Weekly
Date: August 1, 2011
In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]
Booklist loves The Last Jewish Virgin
Date: July 31, 2011
Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]
Claudia Emerson reviews In Confidence
Date: July 31, 2011
In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]
Elizabeth Spires
Date: July 30, 2011
It is rare to encounter a first book of poems as clear-eyed and accomplished as Jim Tilleys In Confidence. The press of everyday experience informs these deceptively calm poems, rippling […]
William Trowbridge in Tar River Poetry
Date: May 9, 2011
Ship of … uh, what? This, after pipsqueak predecessors like, say, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Byron, Twain, and even a financial website called The Motley Fool? Readers love poets who run […]
Linguistically Transformative Pain” (American Book Review)”
Date: May 7, 2011
In his review of The Incognito Body, Gary Hawkins says Cynthia Hogue's poems "radiate with profound insight." American Book Review 28:6 (September/October 2007).
Interview with Cris Mazza
Date: March 9, 2011
Cris Mazza discusses the craft of building a collection with The Short Review!TSR: DID YOU HAVE A COLLECTION IN MIND WHEN YOU WERE WRITING THEM?CM: Trickle-Down Timeline (Red Hen Press […]