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
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
The Booklist Reader: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Reviews:
Verónica Reyes’s Chopper! Chopper! Named One of the Best LGBT Books of 2013
Date: December 12, 2013
Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, author of Amorcito Maricón names Verónica Reyes's Chopper! Chopper! Poetry From Bordered Lives in his top three favorite LGBT books of 2013. "Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from […]
LitReactor absolutely loves The Ogre’s Wife
Date: October 30, 2013
Brian McGackin from LitReactor calls Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife "the book that's going to get you back into poetry." "Koertge isn't trying to be smart; he is smart. He […]
LitBridge reviews The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Date: October 30, 2013
LitBridge's Analicia Sotelo discusses the very "personal" feel of the poems of Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure. "Saito writes about departure with a meditative restlessness that asks if […]
Verse Wisconsin features Room Service
Date: October 30, 2013
Morgan Harlow from Verse Wisconsin discusses the strengths of Ron Carlson's Room Service. "Ron Carlsons Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks…is genuinely engaging….Throughout this collection, the key to humor […]
hazel & wren praises A Wild Surmise
Date: October 11, 2013
Wren from hazel & wren loves Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings. "Regardless of the subject, all of her poems drip with wisdom and […]
NewPages reviews Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: October 10, 2013
Michael Caylo-Baradi from NewPages has much to say about Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost. "Lam's single story, in this collection, is the immigrant story; the pursuit of the American […]
Cleveland Plain-Dealer’s take on The Forage House
Date: October 10, 2013
Dave Lucas from Cleveland Plain-Dealer calls Tess Taylor's The Forage House a "haunting first book." "Taylor's archaeological eye is also her most astonishing poetic gift: to render what we call […]
NewPages loves A Wild Surmise
Date: October 9, 2013
Emily May Anderson from NewPages promises that Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise is "well worth adding to this falls reading list." "Whether a reader is already familiar with Healys […]
SusieBookworm Blog discusses Birds of Paradise Lost
Date: October 9, 2013
SusieBookworm talks Birds of Paradise Lost in her recent blog post. "Lam is certainly able to effectively condense all he wants said into a relatively brief amount of space…There are […]
Song for Chance featured in the New York Times
Date: October 9, 2013
Julie Sarkissian adds John Van Kirk's Song for Chance to her list of new and notable debut novels. "The novel conveys a genuine passion for rock music, and cleverly includes […]