News:

Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!

Date: March 16, 2020

Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.

Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA

Date: March 16, 2020

The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]

Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post

Date: March 16, 2020

Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]

Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate

Date: March 16, 2020

Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]

My Life in Clothes… in the Wall Street Journal!

Date: March 16, 2020

First the Economist, then the Wall Street Journal, and then the world! Summer Brenner’s wonderful short story collection, My Life in Clothes, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s holiday gift […]

The Last Jewish Virgin reviewed in NewPages

Date: March 16, 2020

Yet another great review of Janice Eidus’s The Last Jewish Virgin, this one from New Pages. It’s like the book is good or something. An excerpt: “…an entertaining, original, and psychologically […]

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Reviews:

Bookmonger: The negative capability of poets

Date: June 25, 2024

”Negative capability” was initially described by 18th-century English poet John Keats as a poet’s way of living with uncertainty, or with openness to competing moods. In two recently published volumes, […]

Jen Ryland reviews D.C. Frost’s A PUNISHING BREED

Date: June 10, 2024

“DC Frost does an artful job of weaving in current campus social issues, juggling multiple suspects, and giving us a peek into the tense relationship between the two men who […]

Foreword reviews ANOTHER NORTH by Jennifer Brice

Date: May 22, 2024

“Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir Another North cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree […]

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