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:
Masters Review loves Chris Tarry!
Date: March 17, 2015
Recently, Kim Winternheimer, writing for Masters Review, published a review of Chris Tarry's new story collection How To Carry Bigfoot Home, and she sang Chris' praises. “Tarry’s work is lighthearted, […]
Prism Magazine lauds What Does A House Want?
Date: March 17, 2015
Last month, Connie T. Braun, writing for Prism Magazine, published a review of Gary Geddes' poetry collection, What Does A House Want?: Selected Poems, and perfectly captured Gary's briliance. “This […]
Pop City Media explores the essence of Celeste Gainey’s the GAFFER
Date: March 4, 2015
"Gainey’s first full-length poetry collection, the GAFFER, combines reflections on her lighting career with childhood memories and gender bending to illuminate the emergence of a female gaffer in the 1970s… […]
Colorado Poets Center picks David Mason’s brain
Date: March 3, 2015
Recently, the Colorado Poets Center published the Winter 2015 issue of their publication, The Colorado Poet, featuring an interview with David Mason, Red Hen author of Ludlow and Sea Salt, […]
Ellen Meeropol talks shop on Necessary Fiction!
Date: March 2, 2015
Last week, Ellen Meeropol posted an essay on Necessary Fiction detailing the fascinating process of the research she did while writing her new novel On Hurricane Island, from learning the […]
Northeast Public Radio interviews Ellen Meeropol!
Date: March 2, 2015
Recently, Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio interviewed Ellen Meeropol about her new novel, On Hurricane Island. Give it a listen
The Recorder is enthralled by On Hurricane Island!
Date: March 2, 2015
Last week, Tinky Weisblat, writing for The Recorder, wrote a review of Ellen Meeropol's On Hurricane Island, praising Ellen's ability to combine a critique of modern society with a great […]
World Literature Today can’t get enough of Ruin!
Date: March 2, 2015
Recently, Melissa Aadmo, writing for World Literature Today, published a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, praising the "sharp, lyrical" style of Adrianne's writing and singing her […]
World Literature Today loves The Meaning of Names’ timeless message!
Date: February 27, 2015
Recently, Biljana D. Obradović, writing for World Literature today, reviewed Karen Shoemaker's novel, The Meaning of Names, and had great things to say about what the book can teach its […]
Poetry Northwest loves Burn This House!
Date: January 28, 2015
Recently, Poetry Northwest published a review of Kelly Davio's Burn This House, and they had great things to say about Kelly's use of sound and rhythm. "Clearly Davio is a […]