News:

They Write By Night

Date: August 24, 2020

This video by Poetry.LA features Red Hen author William Anchila’s newest poem!

New Poetry Evokes A Fractured Landscape

Date: August 20, 2020

Book tours have been canceled since shelter-in-place began, so we’re bringing Bay Area author readings to you as part of our “New Arrivals” series. This one is from El Cerrito […]

Sheela-Na-Gig

Date: August 17, 2020

By Maurya Simon Carved as the keystone in this Welsh church, she presides over penitents who see, when gazing upward towards some god or stars, a nude woman with bent […]

Poem: My Father Disappears Into Flowers

Date: August 17, 2020

Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs. Sometimes it’s not enough to be where we are. Sometimes we need to be everywhere: present with the lost, held by transient blossoms. […]

Maurya Simon: On Some Hand-Me-Downs from G-d

Date: August 17, 2020

Well, mortality’s one of the cloaks you tossed in the bin, as well as sin, I suppose, and all this endless yearning for some divine inspiration. You also tossed forgivenessinto the Goodwill […]

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Reviews:

Burn This House praised in Contrary Magazine

Date: August 1, 2013

Lee Gulyas from Contrary Magazine applauds Kelly Davio's use of "the lens and language of religion to question existence, family, and herself" in the poems of Burn This House.- "Don't […]

Hyphen Magazine praises Birds of Paradise Lost

Date: July 25, 2013

Noah Cho from Hyphen Magazine applauds the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Each of the thirteen stories has a distinct tone and flavor….for Lam, that risk of […]

Publishers Weekly reviews When Rain Hurts

Date: July 25, 2013

Publishers Weekly comments on the remarkable story found in Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.– "With vivid language and strong imagery, [Greene] describes the harsh deprivations characteristic of Russia's orphanages, […]

Kirkus features When Rain Hurts

Date: July 19, 2013

Check out the August issue of Kirkus to read their take on Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.- "A searingly candid chronicle of the heroic struggle of two adoptive parents […]

diaCRITICS commends Andrew Lam’s Birds of Paradise Lost

Date: July 11, 2013

Eric Nguyen applauds Birds of Paradise Lost, calling it short stories of "second chances."- “What is refreshing about Lam’s work is that it defies expectations of ‘immigrant story’…. Lam’s stories […]

storySouth’s take on Constantine’s Calamity Joe

Date: July 11, 2013

storySouth applauds Brendan Constantine's poetry in Calamity Joe.- “While the narratives of loss help hold this work together, it’s Constantine’s lyrical touch that keeps the poems engaging…their inventiveness is refreshing […]

Rain Taxi reviews But A Storm is Blowing from Paradise

Date: July 11, 2013

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram receives a great review from Rain Taxi.- “Lillian-Yvonne Bertram'’s But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise locates the human in a large context, vacillating between the cosmic and […]

The Forage House featured in Publishers Weekly

Date: June 26, 2013

Publishers Weekly praises the "close attention to the texture and sound of language" in the poems found in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.– "The confessional and historical poems in Taylor’s […]

Library Journal reviews Koertge’s The Ogre’s Wife

Date: June 25, 2013

Hoffert of Library Journal applauds Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife– “A pleasure for any reader; in this collection, ‘the straw of the day, bushel after bushel of it, slowly/ turns […]

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