IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 30, 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, […]
News & Reviews
News:
TriCornerNews: “My Heart Cannot Accept It All” poem by Susan Kinsolving
Date: June 30, 2020
Forgive yourself for thinking smallfor cooking soups, ignoring blight.The mind cannot contain it all
Giving Compass: #HalfMyDAF: A Challenge To Donors To Unlock Capital For A Reimagined World
Date: June 30, 2020
Launched in early May, #HalfMyDAF is the brainchild of philanthropists David and Jennifer Risher. With more than $120 billion sitting in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) at a time when nonprofits are facing additional obstacles to […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Donor-advised funds are stacking up cash. A former Amazon executive wants it given away faster
Date: June 30, 2020
David Risher and his wife, Jennifer, are urging other tech philanthropists to put money sitting in charitable vehicles to work at nonprofits that need it. And they’re putting $1 million […]
Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth
Date: June 30, 2020
When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]
GMR: Francisco Aragón on The Social Distance Reading Series
Date: June 30, 2020
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He’s the author of After Rubén, Glow of Our Sweat and Puerta del Sol, as well as editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He directs Letras […]
Literary North interviews Didi Jackson
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson is a terrific poet. She writes accessible poems that are packed with startling imagery, art, precise language, and delicate emotions. She manages to make the shocking and heart-breaking […]
Seven Days: Poet Didi Jackson on Grief, Recovery and New Book ‘Moon Jar’
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson‘s book of poetry, Moon Jar, was released on April 21 — the day before her 50th birthday and during a global pandemic. The book contains several years’ worth of […]
Sound and Valley News: Coffee Break with Mary Odden
Date: June 30, 2020
Alaskan author Mary Odden discusses her new book, Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, an essay compilation that form a memoir of life in the 49th state.
Author2Author with Aimee Liu
Date: June 30, 2020
Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her […]
Reviews:
When the World Breaks Open is a hit with Kirkus Reviews!
Date: December 7, 2015
The first review for Seema Reza’s memoir When the World Breaks Open is live! Kirkus Review praises Reza for her “self-lacerating honesty” and that she “exercises literary license and often […]
Elissa Washuta’s My Body is a Book of Rules” is featured on Buzzfeed! “
Date: December 7, 2015
Arianna Rebolini, writer for Buzzfeed, created a list of books that will help the public understand mental disorders and illnesses. Elissa Washuta's My Body is a Book of Rules is […]
Blotterature Celebrates The Crawford County Sketchbook”!”
Date: December 3, 2015
Called a "must read for all of those fans of Southern Gothic, great storylines, nostalgia, and a tinge of weirdness," this is one book you won't want to miss. Read […]
For this month’s Southwest Book Review, Mary Sojourner spoke with author Mark Rozema about his memoir Road Trip.””
Date: November 20, 2015
Mary Sojourner, from KNAU, interviews Mark Rozema and discusses his first memoir, Road Trip. She brings up the focus Road Trip has on grace and the gift of being in […]
Brad Wethern’s Kids in the Wind” leaves an impression on Cleaver Magazine!”
Date: November 16, 2015
Rachael Tague, of Cleaver Magazine, recently reviewed Brad Wethern's Kids in the Wind. She comments on how Wethern seems to blend the lines between imagination and reality by saying his […]
Kirkus Reviews loves Road Trip!
Date: October 15, 2015
We are very proud of Mark Rozema's oustanding review by Kirkus Reviews! A series of essays delicately evoking nature?s power and mystery. Poet Mary Oliver provides the epigraph for essayist […]
The Rumpus calls Amy Uyematsu, brilliant!””
Date: September 28, 2015
Jeannine Hall Gailey from The Rumpus wrote a great review about her excitement on reading Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door. "The Yellow Door continues Uyematsu’s tradition of strikingly-crafted lyric poetry, […]
Pedestal Magazine raves about The Yellow Door!””
Date: September 25, 2015
Congratulations to Amy Uyematsu for this fabulous review by Lee Rossi for The Pedestal Magazine! "This new book contains many of the characteristic pleasures of her writing—precise diction, keen awareness […]
The Luba Poems” puts readers under a spell!”
Date: August 31, 2015
Barry Wallenstein, of the American Book Review, published a review of The Luba Poems for their May/June 2015 issue. He praises Colette Inez's wording and how they are able to […]
Atticus Review praises Gary Dop’s unwavering voice!
Date: August 19, 2015
Last month, Ruth Foley, writing for the Atticus Review, discussed how Dop is able to maintain the consistent voice in his multiple narratives. She goes on noting that the poems […]